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Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif visits Chinese engineers working on dam project
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Sharif accompanied by the Chinese envoy Jiang Zaidong
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Pakistan: Thousands join Baloch march against genocide as it organises sit
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
Thousands of people were seen participating in the ongoing rally by the Baloch Unity Committee in Dera Ghazi Khan. Ghayur Baloch of Makran, Jhalawan, Sarawan, Kohistan, Koh-e-Sulaiman and Dera Ghazi Khan are raising their voice against state terrorism.
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Pakistan: Kohistan clerics say NGO women won't be allowed to mingle with "
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
A group of clerics in Pakistan's Kohistan on Saturday announced that women working with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) would not be allowed to mingle with "na mahram" men in public.
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Situation in Gilgit-Baltistan worsens after protests against scholar’s der
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Sheikh Baqir Al-Hussaini, a prominent Islamic expert living in Skardu, is reported to have sparked protests with his sacrilegious comments. He has been charged with making disparaging statements about religious and historical figures, as reported by Pamir Times.
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Pakistan: Kohistan residents allege timber smuggling
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The residents say contractors chop down trees in Upper Kohistan’s forests before “smuggling” their wood to Gilgit-Baltistan and other areas through the Karakoram Highway in large quantities.
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Pakistan: Part of Karakoram highway washed off in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
A flood in the Upper Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa washed away a part of the Karakoram Highway on Monday in the evening hours following a heavy rain spell in the country, reported Dawn citing the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Irfanullah Mehsood.
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Pakistan: Passengers left stranded as parts of Karakoram Highway in Khyber
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Heavy monsoon rains, coupled with strong winds, lashed across areas such as Shangla's Bisham tehsil and Hazara's Kohistan, Battagram, and Torghar districts. The rains caused streams and rivers to overflow, bringing rubble along with them. This led to blockades and road closures, cutting off
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Pakistan: Chinese man arrested on blasphemy charges released on bail
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
A foreign national on the Dasu hydropower project in Kohistan district, who had been detained after a crowd accused him of committing blasphemy earlier this month, was ordered to be released by Judge Sajjad Ahmad Jan, reported The News.
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Pak: Chinese national faces life-threatening moment over blasphemous remar
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
As per initial reports, labourers at the place were enraged because of his grumbling that "precious time" was being lost due to prayer breaks, and an ensuing heated conversation.
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Chinese national faces blasphemy charges in Pakistan
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The recent detention of a Chinese national in Pakistan has sent shockwaves through the international community. Tian, in charge of heavy machinery, for China Gezhouba Group Company at the World Bank-financed, Dasu hydropower project in the Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was detaine
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Pakistan: Chinese national arrested for blasphemy denies allegations in co
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The Chinese national, who works as head of heavy transport at a major hydropower project, was accused on April 15 of insulting Prophet Muhammad for allegedly urging workers to speed up their pace of work as they took a prayer break, Al Jazeera reported.
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10 dead in house fire in Pakistan's Kohistan
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The fire, which had reportedly broken out from a lantern, ripped through the multi-room wooden house of Mohammad Nawab and the adjacent cattle pen at about 4 am on Friday, according to The News International.
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