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PoGB disruptions: International tourists, traders affected as protest ente
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The protest has been going on for the last 11 days. As a result of this, several international tourists are stranded outside the customs office, waiting for clearance. Customs office operations have also been disrupted due to the protest, which has now expanded to the Karakoram Highway.
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Glacier exploitation threatens Pakistan's ecological future
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Pakistan boasts over 7,000 glaciers, forming the largest mass of ice outside the polar regions. Northern Pakistan, crisscrossed by the Karakoram, Himalayan, and Hindu Kush mountain ranges, is a landscape shaped by ice and rock.
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PoGB: Locals protest military operation in Darel, accuse Pakistan of resou
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The residents in the Darel region of Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB) are expressing their opposition to a recent military operation and the killing of a local allegedly involved in a terror incident.
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PoGB: Karakoram International University Students warn of wider protest ca
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Students at the Hunza campus of Karakoram International University threatened a broader protest campaign if the government disregarded their concerns.
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PoGB: Karakoram International University protests escalate across campuses
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Students from various regions of Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan have initiated protests at the Diamer campus of Karakoram International University, mirroring ongoing protests at the Hunza campus.
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Students launch protests against poor education infrastructure in PoGB
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Students belonging to the Karakoram International University's (KIU) Hunza Campus of Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB) on Saturday launched a protest showing their dissent over the alleged closure of the only educational institution.
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Protesters block Karakoram Highway in PoGB against negligence of administr
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Protestors from the Nasirabad Hunza area in Pakistan Occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB) blocked the Karakoram Highway on Tuesday, raising their concerns over the infrastructural underdevelopment in the PoGB area, a report by the Pamir Times, a local news Outlet from PoGB stated.
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PoK: 20 people killed, 21 others injured after bus falls into ravine in Gi
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The accident occurred at the Yashokhal area on the Karakoram Highway in PoK's Diamer on Friday at 5:30 am (local time).
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Pak: Protesters block Karakoram Highway, demanding compensation for Diamer
Updated : 2 years ago IST
The people affected by the Gilgit-Baltistan's Diamer Bhasha Dam blocked the Karakoram Highway (KKH) on Wednesday in protest against Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) for failure to pay compensation promised to them for leaving their lands for the dam's construction.
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Protesters in Pakistan block Karakoram highway, over suspension of cops in
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Residents of Upper and Lower Kohistan districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa blocked the Karakoram highway on Friday, the third day of Eidul Fitr, as they staged protests against the suspension of senior police officers over the Bisham suicide attack.
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Pakistan: Vehicle carrying Chinese nationals was not even bulletproof, say
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
The report revealed that the bus targeted in the attack was travelling at a distance of 15 feet from the other bus and fell into a 300-foot-deep ditch after a suicide bomber crashed his explosives-laden vehicle into the vehicle carrying the victims on the Karakoram Highway.
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Gilgit-Baltistan faces landslides due to destruction of local ecosystem
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
According to the accounts of the residents, the flooding, which started on Saturday at midnight, continues and has damaged many critical water supply lines.
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