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The dilemma of Gilgit-Baltistan

The serenity of the place, café owner Ali Ahmed fears, is not going to last very long. The cargo traffic on the narrow KKH is set to pick up upon the completion of the 3,200km trade route connecting Kashgar in China’s landlocked western Xinjiang region to Gwadar port in Pakistan’s Balochistan under the $57bn China-Pakistan

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PTI leader for meritocracy as an alternative to electoral democracy

CHITRAL: PTI leader retired Wg Commander Fardad Ali Shah here stressed the importance of meritocracy as an alternative to electoral democracy. He told a news conference here that the failure of democracy to deliver had caused the country’s breakup and that politicians were to blame for the people’s misery and rampant corruption. “The slogan of

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CPEC: experts discuss challenges, opportunities for Chitral, Gilgit-Baltistan

F. Ali  CULTURAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND CIVIL SOCIETY ACTIVISTS, RESEARCHERS AND DEVELOPMENT EXPERTS ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, THEIR CULTURE AND ECOLOGY, PARTICULARLY THE SECOND WAVE OF CHANGES THAT IS TAKING PLACE IN THE SHAPE OF THE CHINA PAKISTAN ECONOMIC CORRIDOR (CPEC) AFTER OPENING OF THE KARAKORAM HIGHWAY (KKH) ABOUT THREE

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فراز، باد شائے رقص 

میری ڈائری کے اوراق سے شمس الحق قمر ؔ رقص کو بدن کی شاعری کہا جاتا ہے ۔ شاعری تخیّل کی اُن پُر پیچ راستوں کی مسافت کا نام ہے جہاں شاعر ماورائے عقل انکشافات سے اپنیہمراہیوں کو وادی حیرت کا اسیر بنا کے رکھدیتا /دیتی ہے ۔شاعری کوشش سے نہیں کی جاتی بلکہ یہ

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