Regional News

Centre asked to bail out GB from financial crisis

January 20, 2013

ISLAMABAD, Jan 20: The financial crisis in Gilgit-Baltistan has reached such an alarming level that the chief minister and some of the members of the GB Council have sought an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to bail the provincial government out of the mess, it has been learnt here. Media reports said

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BD enters into $1 billion arms deal with Russia

January 15, 2013

MOSCOW, Jan 15 (AFP): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday met the prime minister of Bangladesh for talks that included the signature of a $1 billion arms contract, the Asian nation’s biggest since its 1971 independence. Bangladesh has recently been expanding its defence capabilities, building a new air base close to neighbouring Myanmar and adding

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