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Financial crisis deepens

GILGIT, Dec 8: The government of Gilgit-Baltistan is in hot waters and near the brink of bankruptcy, unable even to pay salaries to its employees for the month of December. Sources said that the government needed an amount of 8.5 million to pay the monthly salaries each month. However, at the moment its reserves have […]

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Ibex family killed, accused caught

GILGIT, Dec 7: Days after the Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) government unveiled its trophy hunting programme, police arrested three people for killing an ibex family in Hunza Valley. “It was an unfortunate incident. A male, female and baby ibex were killed,” Wildlife Divisional Forests Officer (DFO) Aftab Mehmood said on Thursday. On a routine visit to Hussanabad

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Poverty score card system introduced

CHITRAL, Dec 5: The Sarhad Rural Support Program (SRSP) has introduced a modern tool of poverty score card (PSC) system to quantitatively measure the poverty prevalent in Sheshi Koh valley and classify the poor into different categories to fight the ultra-poverty in the area. Addressing a function held in Sheshi Koh valley the other day,

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