Tag: Tribal

FILE PIC JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir government has begun the first-ever survey and enumeration of the migratory tribal population for extending them the benefits of various welfare schemes, a senior official said on Saturday.The first survey of the nomadic tribal population has been undertaken by J&K Tribal Affairs ...

Secretary Tribal Affairs, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary chairing a meeting in Jammu on Tuesday. Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, May 18: Secretary, Tribal Affairs Department, Dr Shahid Iqbal Choudhary today chaired a meeting of officers to finalise the plan and prioritise initiatives for cluster area approach based interventions aimed at time-bound ...

Srinagar: The government on Saturday order with immediate effect transfer of Shahid Iqbal Choudhary (IAS), Chief Executive Officer, Mission Youth, holding additional charge of Mission Director, Skill Development Mission. According to an order by the government, the 2009-batch IAS officer and has been posted as Administrative Secretary, Tribal Affairs ...

Rukaiya Jan, a woman from the Gujjar tribal community in Kashmir, was married at 15 years old, a common practice among Kashmir's nomadic herders. Now 35, Jan has six children.  The birth of her seventh baby, a girl, ended in tragedy, as the newborn died near a hospital gate ...

No primitive tribal group in J&K   Nasir Azam Jammu Tawi, Feb 19: Jammu & Kashmir doesn’t have any primitive tribal group while no survey has been undertaken to ascertain pre-agricultural communities in the Union Territory. Official documents in our possession lay bare that the department of Tribal Affairs has ...

Source link www.rferl.org Four construction workers have been shot dead in Pakistan’s volatile North Waziristan tribal area, police said on November 27. The men, who worked for the Frontier Works Organization (FWO), an engineering branch of the Pakistani military, came under attack near the town of Mirali on November ...

Fifty-year-old tribal man Birju Kulu's joy knew no bounds when he was accorded a grand welcome on return to his remote village in Odisha on Friday after spending 20 years in a jail in Pakistan. It was the end of an ordeal for Kulu, who had left home at ...

Source link www.rferl.org DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- Pakistani officials say eight of its soldiers have been killed in two separate attacks in the country’s northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan. Six troops died after their vehicles struck two roadside bombs in the Shaktoi area of the South Waziristan district ...

Source link www.rferl.org A sit-in protest by residents of Pakistan’s remote North Waziristan tribal district continued for a second consecutive day on October 14 as they demanded the release of all the locals allegedly detained by security forces following a roadside bombing last month. Dozens of women who started ...

Source link www.rferl.org Officials say militants have killed at least three Pakistani soldiers in an attack in the northwestern South Waziristan tribal district near the Afghan border. The Pakistani military said the attack took place during a search operation on August 30, adding that four others were wounded. District ...