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Journalism in PoK: A saga of intimidation, oppression and censorship
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Gilgit [PoK]/Bern [Switzerland], May 11 (ANI): Journalists and political activists from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit-Baltistan have blamed Islamabad for subjugating their voice and harassment by using draconian anti-terrorism laws.
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People in Pak's Gilgit-Baltistan protest over power cuts during Ramzan
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Gilgit-Baltistan [Pakistan], May 8 (ANI): Daily power cuts lasting 20 hours in some districts of Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan have prompted locals to protest as they are forced to observe Ramzan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, in darkness.
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5 killed by unidentified gunmen in PoK's Naltar
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Gilgit-Baltistan [PoK], March 25 (ANI): Five people were killed, and seven others were injured in a firing in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir's Gilgit-Baltistan region on Thursday.
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Gilgit Baltistan doctors protest after being denied regularisation, post-g
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Gilgit Baltistan [PoK], March 24 (ANI): Doctors in the Gilgit Baltistan region of Pakistan occupied Kashmir's (PoK) on Wednesday protested against the Pakistan government after they were denied regularisation and post-graduation admission.
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Pakistan muzzling voices of dissent in PoK, Gilgit Baltistan: Activist inf
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 16 (ANI): A Kashmiri political activist has urged the United Nations to take serious note on human rights violations in Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan during his intervention at the ongoing 46th Session of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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Pakistan has no locus standi on J&K, says exiled PoK leader
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 10 (ANI): With Pakistan planning to make occupied Gilgit-Baltistan as its province, exiled Kashmiri leader Sardar Shaukat Ali Kashmiri has said that Islamabad has no locus standi on the "erstwhile princely state" of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Pakistan treating PoK its `colony', lambasts Kashmiri activist
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 9 (ANI): An exiled Kashmiri leader has lambasted Islamabad for using Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Gilgit Baltistan as its colonies for over seven decades and exploiting its natural resources.
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Part of Jammu & Kashmir illegally held by Pakistan since 1947, says UK
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 8 (ANI): Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, exiled Chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) on Saturday (local time) said that Pak occupied Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan were a part of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir but have been illegally h
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Fresh western disturbance likely to affect western Himalayan region: IMD
Updated : 5 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 4 (ANI): A fresh western disturbance is very likely to affect the western Himalayan region from the night of March 5 and its adjoining plains of Northwest India from the night of March 6, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday.
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Gilgit-Baltistan remains neglected by Imran Khan despite being Gateway to
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 28 (ANI): While Imran Khan looks excited over China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), Gilgit-Baltistan, also known as the Gateway to CPEC, continues to remain neglected as the Prime Minister siphoned off allotted cash and projects to other regions.
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Anti-govt protests continue in Gilgit-Baltistan over discrimination in job
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Gilgit Baltistan [PoK], February 3 (ANI): Anti-government protests in Pakistan occupied Kashmir's (PoK) Gilgit-Baltistan continued on Tuesday as hundreds of disgruntled employees and healthcare workers demonstrated against the discrimination in government jobs and unpaid salary hikes.
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Exploitation of Indian natural resources by Pakistan in occupied Kashmir
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Glasgow [Scotland], January 30 (ANI): Western territories of Jammu and Kashmir was occupied by Pakistan on October 26, 1947, and the former Gilgit Agency, which used to be a province of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, now known as Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan was also occu
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