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J-K: Srinagar conference sheds light on tourism-led solutions for tribal c
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The event was organised by Kashmir Sewa and was held at a local Hotel in Srinagar bringing together a diverse assembly of experts, leaders, and stakeholders, all committed to driving positive change in these regions.
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PoK: 5 killed, 13 injured as tourist bus falls into ravine in Diamer
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
At least five persons were killed and 13 others were injured after a bus carrying tourists crashed into a ravine on the Karakoram Highway in the Thalichi area in Gilgit Baltistan's Diamer district on Sunday
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Pakistan officials accused of corruption in distribution of relief flood r
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Gilgit Baltistan [PoK], September 18 (ANI): Pakistan government officials are allegedly involved in corruption in distribution of flood relief materials in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, local media reported.
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Protest planned against Pak Army during Baba Ghundi festival over forceful
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 21 (ANI): The locals in Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) are planning to hold a protest against the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) and Pak Army on the occasion of the Baba Ghundi festival, for forceful land grabbing near the Chiporsun valley.
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PoK: Gilgit Baltistan residents protest over awarding mining contracts to
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Gilgit Baltistan [PoK], July 7 (ANI): The local residents of Gilgit Baltistan staged a sit-in blocking the Karakoram Highway in Nasirabad, Hunza for the fifth consecutive day on Wednesday to protest against the minerals department for permitting mining leases to an outsider company.
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China's CPEC damaging environment in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Gilgit Baltistan [PoK], June 11 (ANI): Although Pakistan termed the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, CPEC as a game-changer for the country's ailing economy but the fact of the matter is that Chinese mega projects are showing an adverse impact on Gilgit-Baltistan's environment leading to un
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Pakistan: Protests in Gilgit Baltistan over secret land deals with China
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Gilgit Baltistan [PoK], May 12 (ANI): Pakistan is surreptitiously leasing out the Upper Hunza Valley to China in the near future to ease its mounting debt burden from the Chinese investment in the now increasingly burdensome China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
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Severe climate change in Pakistan melting glaciers, raising risk of natura
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 11 (ANI): Climate change has emerged as a key concern in Pakistan, with the outburst of the Shishper Glacier and the flood in Hunza in Gilgit-Baltistan raising concerns in the country.
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Pak PM orders measures to control glacial lake outburst flood
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 8 (ANI): Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday asked officials to take measures to control a glacial lake outburst flood from a glacier in Hunza, Pak media reported.
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Protests erupt against Pak's attempt to alter status of GB, crackdown on a
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Muzaffarabad (PoK)/ Karachi (Pakistan)/ Hunza (Gilgit Baltistan), October 13 (ANI): People from Gilgit Baltistan held demonstrations across the region and in major towns of Pakistan against Islamabad's clampdown on people's civil and political rights.
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Hunza revolt and the birth of universal will
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Glasgow [UK], October 8 (ANI): The protest sit-in since Sunday, October 4, at Aliabad in Hunza district of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) in the northern Himalayan region, which has been under Pakistan's illegal occupation since November 1, 1947, can prove to be a political game-changer.
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Massive protests erupt across occupied Gilgit Baltistan, demand release of
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Hunza (Gilgit Baltistan) [PoK], October 8 (ANI): A wave of anger has swept towns and villages across the illegally occupied Gilgit Baltistan after the stooge administration launched a crackdown against the political activists, dissenting political leaders and anybody who hasn't fallen in lin
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