After the formation of the caretaker government, the health department refused to provide financial resources due to which doctors and other staff could not be paid.
Pakistan has recently tightened security measures and controls at the border crossings with Afghanistan since TTP has increased terror attacks within Pakistan.
Prolonged power cuts have led to frequent angry demonstrations in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan. The provincial authorities are using police force and issuing stern warnings to the protestors. Skardu city has been left totally without electricity for the past three months.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has proposed to hold the elections for the Punjab assembly between April 9 and 13 and for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assembly between April 15 to 17, the Dawn reported, adding that in February, the ECP announced by-elections on March 19 for the 31 vacant
The inspector during a visit to the Rashakai Economic Zone in Nowshera on Sunday directed to beef up security of Chinese nationals. He also asked the officials concerned to keep close liaison with the Chinese engineers for a timely response in case of an emergency.
Combing operations prove that besides Muzaffarabad, PoK cities and towns along the Line of Control (LoC) have been transformed into safe havens for terrorists from Afghanistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Kpk) and Punjab.
Police and rescue officials reached the site after they were informed about the incident. The police shifted the injured and the bodies to the hospital.
According to the Gilgit-Baltistan's Diamer Superintendent of Police (SP) Sher Khan, their team pulled out 25 bodies from the vehicles, while 15 injured have been shifted to a hospital in Chilas. The bus was traveling from Gilgit to Rawalpindi on the Karakoram Highway.
TTP leaders openly say that their group seeks to establish an Islamic caliphate in Pakistan that would require the overthrow of the Pakistani Government, The research group reported.