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Pak: Traders in PoGB continue sit-in despite conditional tax exemptions
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Traders in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) vowed to continue their sit-in at Sost Dry Port despite a government deal capping tax exemptions at PKR 4 billion. Leader Javed Hussain told Dawn the settlement ignored PoGB's constitutional exemption, warning traders may adopt a "Plan C"
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Corruption, mismanagement deepen PoGB's suffering under Pakistan
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Technical education, especially for the region's youth, who make up 70% of the population, is severely lacking. He stated the absence of a medical college, a functioning cardiac centre, and insufficient dialysis and cancer treatment facilities, describing the health infrastructure as inadequ
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PoGB leader accuses Pakistan of suppression, warns of trade blockade amid
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
A political leader from Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) has strongly criticised Pakistan's national media, accusing major outlets of insulting the region's 2.2 million residents and undermining their voices. In a statement, he insisted that PoGB's fate should be determined solely b
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LeT commander tears apart Pakistan's lies, confirms destruction of Markaz
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Months after India's precision strikes on nine terror camps across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Qaasim, in a viral video, has exposed Islamabad's denials of the strikes by confirming the destruction of the Markaz Taiba terror cam
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Amjad Ayub Mirza slams Pakistan's CTD expansion in PoGB, calls it move to
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Political analyst and rights campaigner Amjad Ayub Mirza has sharply criticised Pakistan's decision to extend the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) into Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB), warning that the measure is intended to suppress local opposition rather than tackle militancy.
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Neglect deepens crisis: Flood victims in PoGB left in tents as winter sets
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
As winter begins in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB), hundreds of families displaced by the August floods in Talidas, Ghizer district of PoGB, remain stranded in makeshift tents. With plummeting temperatures and inadequate facilities, flood victims are now appealing to the governme
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Pakistan's failure deepens PoGB crisis as traders' protest paralyses China
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
A high-powered committee led by Pakistan's Energy Minister failed to reach consensus on PoGB traders' demands for tax-free status and release of stuck consignments. Protests at Sost have entered 50 days, blocking the Karakoram Highway and halting trade with China, Dawn reported.
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Ad-hoc employees in PoJK protest for permanent status, allege exploitation
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
In Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK), long-serving ad-hoc and contractual government employees have intensified their protests, demanding permanent employment status after decades of service.
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Pakistan: Govt inaction turns Karakoram highway into protest hotspot
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The blockade has stranded hundreds of passengers, trucks, and traders, disrupting vital supplies to Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB), as reported by The Express Tribune.
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Pak: UKPNP condemns heavy police deployment in PoJK ahead of planned prote
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) has strongly condemned the deployment of nearly 2,000 police personnel by the Pakistani government and the Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) administration to suppress a peaceful protest scheduled later this month.
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Calls for peaceful resistance grow as tensions escalate in PoJK
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Shabir Choudhry, a political activist and writer from Pakistan-occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK), in a recent address, raised serious concerns over the escalating tensions in PoJK, warning against violent uprisings and calling for a peaceful and strategic approach to resistance. Speaking from L
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Pakistan called out for ethnic cleansing in PoJK, PoGB at UN Rights Counci
Updated : 5 months, 2 weeks ago IST
At the 60th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), speaker Fidencie Izabayo, from an international NGO, Reveil communautaire d'assistance aux victims, based in Burundi, raised alarm over what she described as Pakistan's "grave and deliberate crime against humanity" in Pa
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