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Key CPEC route blocked as local traders protest
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Gilgit [PoK], May 7 (ANI): Trade with China through the Khunjerab Pass, a key part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), has been halted for more than a month over objections to the existing clearance system.
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PoK activists demand abolition of 1949 Karachi Agreement
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Rawalpindi [Pakistan], May 1 (ANI): Political activists from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) carried out a protest rally in Rawalpindi city against the Karachi Agreement.
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GB govt. refuses parole to jailed leader Baba Jan
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Gilgit [Pakistan-occupied Kashmir], April 18 (ANI): In yet another human rights violation incident, the Gilgit-Baltistan government has refused parole to Awami Workers Party (AWP) leader and political activist Baba Jan to solemnise his Nikah in Ghizer district in Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan
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Mohajir activists apprise US lawmakers of human rights violations in Pak
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], April 15 (ANI): A United States-based advocacy group, Voice of Karachi, has held important meetings in Washington D.C. with the Congressmen and members of powerful House committees over the latest situation in Pakistan and South Asia region.
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Traders in Gilgit bear brunt of trade policy with China
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Gilgit [Pakistan-occupied Kashmir], April 10 (ANI): The traders in Gilgit-Baltistan are immensely troubled with Chinese policies that debar them from doing business on equal grounds.
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Anger in Gilgit over Chinese arresting Uighur women
Updated : 7 years, 11 months ago IST
Gilgit [Pakistan-occupied Kashmir], April 7 (ANI): Anger and distress against Chinese is brewing among families in Gilgit-Baltistan following news being received of Uighur women in Xinjiang province being arrested.
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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 : 7 years, 12 months 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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