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Gilgit-Baltistan residents threaten to shut border with China
Updated : 7 years, 12 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar. 28 (ANI): Threats of shutting down the China-Pak border were issued to the China by residents of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) region in Pakistan occupied Kashmir, who allege that over 50 women, of Chinese origins, married to the G-B residents, have been detained by Beiji
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Pakistani men helpless as Uighur wives, children 'vanish' in China
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Hong Kong [Hong Kong], Mar 26 (ANI): Every autumn, on the Karakoram Highway in the China-Pakistan border, a group of Pakistani merchants in Xinjiang province in China, bid farewell to their Uighur wives who spend their winter breaks in Pakistan.
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Pak to be 'industrial hub' of South Asia, says Iqbal on CPEC
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 19 (ANI): Pakistan Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal has said that Pakistan would be the 'industrial hub' of the entire South Asian region soon, after the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project is built.
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Contractual doctors in Gilgit-Baltistan demand regular jobs
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Gilgit [Gilgit-Baltistan], Mar.16 (ANI): A group of contractual medical practitioners gathered recently before the Gilgit Press Club in Gilgit city to protest and demand that their jobs be regularised.
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Opposition party blames ruling PML(N) of skipping Gilgit-Baltistan assembl
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Gilgit-Baltistan [ PoK], Mar 15 (ANI): The opposition parties in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of PoK has called for an early dissolution of Gilgit-Baltistan assembly on Wednesday following a prolonged absence of the ruling party members of the house.
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PoK activists hold anti-Pakistan protest outside UN office
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 13 (ANI): Political activists from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) held a massive protest outside the United Nations office here on Tuesday against the gross human rights violations committed by Pakistani state in the region.
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'Pak media not free to report reality'
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar 13 (ANI): Experts and political analysts on Monday censured Pakistan for crushing dissent and sheltering terrorists in the country, including Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan.
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'Broker' Pakistan now aspiring to sell Gilgit-Baltistan to China: EU exper
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Mar. 10 (ANI): A senior European researcher has accused Pakistan of making moves to sell the disputed region of Gilgit-Baltistan to China in return for stacks of Renminbi (Chinese currency) and Yuan (basic unit of Chinese currency).
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'Process of confiscating JuD, FIF assets still incomplete'
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar 9 (ANI): A senior Pakistani Government official said that the process of confiscating the assets of the Jammat-ud-Dawah (JuD) and the Falah-i-Insaniyat Foundation (FIF) was still to be completed.
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China accused of detaining Muslim women married to Pakistani men
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar 6 (ANI): China has allegedly detained dozens of Chinese Muslim women in its restive Xinjiang province, located in the north-western part of the country, for marrying Pakistani men belonging to Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region of Pakistan.
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Glaciers melting in Gilgit-Baltistan due to CPEC project
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Gilgit [Pakistan occupied Kashmir], Mar 4 (ANI): Thirty-six glacial lakes in various valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan have been declared dangerous with seven of them posing a major threat to the people, said a survey by Focus Pakistan, an NGO.
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Advocate Ehsan Ali released on bail amid protests
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Gilgit [Pakistan occupied Kashmir], Feb 22 (ANI): Amid widespread protests in Gilgit-Baltistan and parts of Pakistan, advocate Ehsan Ali, the detained President of Supreme Court Bar Association and founding leader of Awami Action Committee, was released from jail by an anti-terrorism court (
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