Category: POK – Pakistan Occupied Kashmir

President Azad Jammu and Kashmir Barrister Sultan Mehmood says international community and human rights organizations are not playing their due role to resolve the lingering Kashmir dispute. He was talking to a delegation of Kashmir community in Washington. The delegation included Dr. Ghulam Nabi Mir, Dr. Abdul Rauf, Dr. Akram Dar, Dr. Professor Imtiaz Khan […]

Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan said here on Monday that his government was working on a comprehensive road map to make the liberated territory an ideal state economically and industrially. The Prime Minister expressed these views while presiding over a high-level meeting that was concerned here to review the progress […]

Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan has said that empowerment of women-folk was the government’s first and foremost priority. He expressed these views during his visit to the Kamyab Khawateen Program Production Center in the State metropolis on Saturday. “Women’s representation in the government is showing better results”, the PM said […]

It is very pathetic to watch the socio-political conditions of Gilgit Baltistan (GB) that stand deteriorated in multiple aspects. On one hand, the region has lost its political and constitutional identity in the past seven decades. And on the other, the sectarian and lingual dissension caused obstacles to the development of the region. Unfortunately, no […]

GILGIT: Mounting political uncertainty and visa delays poured frigid water on foreign adventurers’ plans to visit Gilgit-Baltistan this winter and attempt to scale some of the world’s highest mountains, and not a single foreign mountain expedition has arrived this season. High permit fees and the United States, Australia and Saudi Arabia cautioning their citizens against […]

The Gilgit-Baltistan government has made human development its top priority as it tripled the amount released on educational reforms to Rs922 million from the budget, setting the benchmark for all other governments to follow. This was a historic achievement in the public sector of Pakistan. In the previous fiscal year 2021-22, Rs300 million was spent […]

Amidst skyrocketing flour prices, the Government of Azad Jammu and Kashmir has decided to take concrete measures to provide cheap flour to the masses. According to the data unveiled by the government, flour was available in remote and snowy areas in abundance and efforts were being taken to ensure its delivery to the people. The […]

The Pak-China border crossing at Khunjrab Pass will be temporarily open for trade on Tuesday and Wednesday and in the next phase from 30 January to 10 February. During the said two days heavy machinery required for development work on Diamar Bhasha Dam will pass through Khunjarab border to Sost. While from January 30th to […]

Gilgit-Baltistan: The locals and traders of Gilgit Baltistan (GB) in Pakistani adminstrated Kashmir (PaK) are holding protests against heavy taxation laws, illegal land occupation, and load shedding imposed by the regime in the province, Pakistan’s vernacular media outlet Baad-e-Shimal reported. The locals have raised concerns over the re-imposition of Gilgit Baltistan Revenue Tax 2022, which […]

The federal government and the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) government are dealing with boiling public temperatures in the freezing weather of GB over a variety of issues that are related to the federal government after being confronted with an emerging situation in Gwadar, Waziristan, and some other regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Amjad Hussain, the head of the […]