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1 year, 1 month ago

Pakistan: Nine killed, 25 injured after terrorists attack passenger bus in Gilgit-Baltistan

At least nine people have been killed and 25 others injured in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after terrorists opened fire on a passenger bus in Gilgit Baltistan on Saturday, according to officials. Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Haji Gulbar Khan condemned the 'cowardly act of terrorism' and said that a special team was formed for the investigation of the incident and a thorough inquiry …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Row after US diplomat's visit to PoK, US envoy says ‘not my place to react’

Hindustan Times

US Ambassdor to India Eric Garcetti on Tuesday said US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome's visit to Gilgit-Baltistan is a matter which should be "resolved between India and Pakistan, not by any third party including the US." Eric Garcetti US Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome recently paid a six-day visit to Gilgit-Baltistan during which he visited different areas and met …

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1 year, 5 months ago

No final goodbyes as rough rivers rush bodies to PoK

The Hindu

The cold mountains of Kargil in the Union Territory of Ladakh are witnessing a rare humanitarian crisis. On August 1, Muhammad Hussain, a small businessman from Kargil’s Holiyan village, spotted the body of his missing brother, Shabir Ahmad, on Facebook news pages like ‘Kharmang STAR tv’ run from the Baltistan region. Maulana Muhammad Sharief, a resident of Baltistan’s Kharmang, put …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Pakistan: 5 killed, 20 wounded in bus accident after driver falls asleep in Punjab province

India TV News

At least five people were killed and 20 others were severely injured after a bus driver fell asleep while driving, causing the vehicle to overturn in the Fazilpur area of Punjab's Rajanpur district on Sunday. Rescue officials said that the bus was on its way to Jacobabad when it overturned after the driver lost control of the vehicle as he …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Anger, dissent growing in Gilgit Baltistan over continuous indifference of political leadership

Firstpost

The erratic power supply has caused unemployment and despair among the people, resulting in waves of thefts and violence. The demands presented by the Gilgit-Baltistan Awami Action include power crisis, food shortage, land grabbing and various other issues that the people in the region have been facing for a long time. Long queues for wheat flour could be seen in …

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2 years ago

Anti-Pak protests intensify in PoK as Gilgit Baltistan demands reunion with India

India Today

Amidst news of flour and food crisis across Pakistan, the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan is again making headlines as residents are furious over the discriminative policies of the Pakistan government that has exploited the region for several decades and are now demanding a reunion with India in Ladakh. Pak seeks financial aid On Thursday, Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif …

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2 years ago

Pakistan: Protests rock PoK as Gilgit Baltistan demands reunion with India

Firstpost

In a video that has gone viral on several social media platforms, a huge rally in Gilgit Baltistan can be seen demanding the reopening of the Kargil Road and reunion with their fellow Baltis in the Kargil district of the union territory of Ladakh in India Muzzafarabad: Furious at the discriminative policies of the Pakistan government that had exploited the …

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2 years ago

Former PoK CM slams Pakistan, demands greater rights for Gilgit Baltistan

Firstpost

Gilgit Baltistan has seen intense protests by local villagers in recent days after the Pakistan Army and various paramilitary forces tried to forcibly take over their land. Muzzafarabad: Slamming the Pakistan administration for its policies against Gilgit Baltistan, former PoK PM Raja Farooq Haider urged an end to the land grabbing by the security forces in the Himalayan region. The …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Weather Forecast: There will be heavy rain in these states for next 2 days, know IMD weather update

Firstpost

According to the India Meteorological Department, there are chances of rain with snowfall in the mountains of Gilgit, Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Ladakh, Jammu, Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand for the next few days New Delhi: The plains of North India have been witnessing a steady drop in temperature for the last few days due to the icy winds blowing from the …

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$Rajnath reasserts India\'s resolve to reclaim Gilgit and Baltistan$

2 years, 2 months ago

Rajnath reasserts India\'s resolve to reclaim Gilgit and Baltistan

Deccan Chronicle

SRINAGAR: India's northward journey of development will be complete after reaching Gilgit and Baltistan, parts of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday, while referring to the 1994 resolution passed in Parliament on getting back the territories “under illegal occupation” of the neighbouring country. Singh, who was addressing the Shaurya Diwas function here that mark India's first military …

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2 years, 2 months ago

On Shaurya Diwas, Rajnath Singh hints at taking back Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

India Today

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday, October 27, said that Pakistan had backstabbed India and was "committing atrocities" against the people in parts of Kashmir it had occupied. He said that the overall development in the twin Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh will be achieved "after reaching Gilgit and Baltistan" — parts of PoK. Speaking on the …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Militants block road linking Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit Baltistan; demand release of accomplices

Firstpost

Sources said the militants were demanding the release of their accomplices, including those involved in the gruesome murder of foreigners in the Nanga Parbat area and other terrorist incidents in Diamer Islamabad: Militants demanding the release of their jailed accomplices set up blockades on one of the major arteries linking Pakistan’s restive provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with Gilgit-Baltistan, leaving a …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Pakistan: Clerics oppose women’s sport in Gilgit stadium because it is used for namaz also

Op India

On October 1, Pakistan’s woman cricketer Diana Baig called out Maulana Jalal Abid for opposing women’s sporting event at Gilgit’s Lalik Jan Stadium located in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Reportedly, the Gilgit-Baltistan Women Sports gala 2022 comprising different sporting events, including Cricket, Basketball, Tennis, Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis and hockey, is scheduled to take place from October 5 in Pakistan Occupied …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Tricolour flies high in Turtuk

Deccan Chronicle

One harsh wintry morning in December 1971, Ghulam Hussain left his home in Pharnu village in Pakistan along with his sheep to graze them across the hills in Thang village of Turtuk, which was then under Pakistan control. Hussain was caught in the crossfire of a fierce battle that broke out between the Indian and Pakistani armies on December 8, …

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2 years, 5 months ago

India-China relations cannot be normal unless border situation is: EAM Dr S Jaishankar

India TV News

Highlights If China disturbs peace, tranquillity in border areas, it'll impact India-China relations:Jaishankar He said that big problem is border situation and Indian military has been holding on to ground We've made substantial progress in pulling back from places where we were very close to LOC: EAM India-China relations : External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Friday said that …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Pakistan’s record in PoK is exploitative and predatory, has no business talking about Jammu & Kashmir

Firstpost

Jammu and Kashmir is considered one of the most intractable challenges faced by independent India. It is interesting that Pakistan, to this day, complains of the expelled and/or killed Muslims of Jammu, but no mention is made of the unfortunate Hindus and Sikhs of PoK by any organisation or government. In the June 2018 report, the Office of the High …

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2 years, 9 months ago

European Union monitoring human rights violations in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan

Firstpost

UKPNP’s Jamil Maqsood had earlier expressed his concerns regarding the human rights situation in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan Brussels: The European Union said it is monitoring the human rights violations in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan. Replying to a letter dated February 22 by United Kashmir People’s National Party’s Jamil Maqsood, Deren Derya, Deputy Head of Division, European Union …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Opinion: Pakistan And China Are Moving To Take Over Gilgit-Baltistan

News 18

Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Imran Khan, is expected to use the occasion of Pakistan Day, observed each year on March 23, to make a public announcement that the Pakistan-occupied territory of Gilgit-Baltistan has been incorporated into its federal system as Pakistan’s fifth provisional province. Eminent PoJK historian and political commentator Dr Shabbir Chaudhary who lives in exile in the UK writes …

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3 years, 3 months ago

A people who became Indian overnight

The Hindu

Holding a pair of small binoculars in his wrinkled hand, 75-year-old Ahmed Shah has been watching tourists make a beeline to his village for more than a month now. From Pakistan to India Between the midnight of December 14 and December 16, 1971, the Indian Army captured four villages across several hundred square kilometers in the Shyok Valley that were …

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3 years, 10 months ago

UKPNP Chairman says part of J-K illegally held by Pakistan since 1947

Hindustan Times

Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, exiled Chairman of United Kashmir People's National Party on Saturday said that Pak occupied Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan were a part of the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir but have been illegally held by Pakistan since 1947. Speaking at a press conference at Geneva on human rights violations in Pakistan and the occupied territory of …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Mercury Likely to Soar by 5 Degrees in Northwest India, Predicts IMD

News 18

Mercury is likely to rise by four to five degrees to settle at 32 degree Celsius over most parts of northwest India in the next three to four days given an increase in moisture and variable wind direction, the Indian Meteorological Department said on Sunday. Light rain is also likely over Punjab, but over the rest of northwest India, temperatures …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Longing and belonging along the LoC

Live Mint

On one side of the dusty off-road from Turtuk, in Ladakh’s Nubra valley, to the village of Thang, just 2.5km from the mercurial Line of Control, a large rock presents a stark warning: “You are under enemy observation.” Other rocks on the route are inscribed with the words of Baltistan’s beloved poet Qurban Ali, who lived through the 19th and …

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4 years, 1 month ago

India Slams Pak, Says Polls in Gilgit Baltistan Aimed at Hiding Illegal Occupation of Territory

News 18

India on Thursday slammed Pakistan for holding elections in Gilgit-Baltistan, saying it was aimed at hiding Pakistan's illegal occupation of its territory. The International Court of Justice had pronounced judgment on Kulbhushan Jadhav in July 2019, but Pakistan has not made available to us all documents related to the case till now," Srivastava said. The Hague-based ICJ ruled in July …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Imran Khan's Chinese game plan for Gilgit-Baltistan explained

India Today

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf has claimed victory in the legislative assembly election in Gilgit-Baltistan held on Sunday. What sets Imran Khan-led PTI’s victory apart is that it has come at a time when Pakistan is nearing its plan to permanently alter the status of Gilgit-Baltistan. Gilgit-Baltistan, a Chinese design It is widely believed that Pakistan’s Imran Khan …

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Pakistan: Nine killed, 25 injured after terrorists attack passenger bus in Gilgit-Baltistan

Row after US diplomat's visit to PoK, US envoy says ‘not my place to react’

No final goodbyes as rough rivers rush bodies to PoK

Pakistan: 5 killed, 20 wounded in bus accident after driver falls asleep in Punjab province

Anger, dissent growing in Gilgit Baltistan over continuous indifference of political leadership

Anti-Pak protests intensify in PoK as Gilgit Baltistan demands reunion with India

Pakistan: Protests rock PoK as Gilgit Baltistan demands reunion with India

Former PoK CM slams Pakistan, demands greater rights for Gilgit Baltistan

Weather Forecast: There will be heavy rain in these states for next 2 days, know IMD weather update

Rajnath reasserts India\'s resolve to reclaim Gilgit and Baltistan

On Shaurya Diwas, Rajnath Singh hints at taking back Pakistan-occupied Kashmir

Militants block road linking Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit Baltistan; demand release of accomplices

Pakistan: Clerics oppose women’s sport in Gilgit stadium because it is used for namaz also

Tricolour flies high in Turtuk

India-China relations cannot be normal unless border situation is: EAM Dr S Jaishankar

Pakistan’s record in PoK is exploitative and predatory, has no business talking about Jammu & Kashmir

European Union monitoring human rights violations in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan

Opinion: Pakistan And China Are Moving To Take Over Gilgit-Baltistan

A people who became Indian overnight

UKPNP Chairman says part of J-K illegally held by Pakistan since 1947

Mercury Likely to Soar by 5 Degrees in Northwest India, Predicts IMD

Longing and belonging along the LoC

India Slams Pak, Says Polls in Gilgit Baltistan Aimed at Hiding Illegal Occupation of Territory

Imran Khan's Chinese game plan for Gilgit-Baltistan explained