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The suggestion that GB be made a province of Pakistan has stirred a new debate, especially about Pakistan’s stance over Kashmir The undefined status of Gilgit-Baltistan has always unnerved Islamabad.

For Pakistan, Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) provides the only ground link to its ‘all-weather’ friend China. For a long time the region has been desperate for foreign investment. Misplaced priorities, a ...

HUSSAINABAD: Beneath the towering, frost-capped peaks of the country’s northern ranges, farmers facing water shortages have turned to building their own ice towers. In Gilgit Baltistan’s (GB) remote ...

GILGIT: Flash floods continued to wreak havoc across Gilgit-Baltistan on Saturday, leaving one person dead, eight injured, and dozens displaced. Roads and bridges were swept away, thousands — ...

When the twin towers were hit on September 11, there was panic in Pakistan’s Hunza Valley. Javed Ali was sitting in the lobby of his hotel, the Hilltop, when the news came in. There were shrieks and ...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is an infrastructural project aimed at renewing China’s historical trade routes in the Eurasian mainland and also in the coastal countries of South East Asia ...

Pakistan's Shias have accused the government of doing too little to stop attacks against them As many as 25 Shia Muslims have been forced out of a bus and killed in a sectarian attack in ...

Pakistan, in a surprise decision last month, announced the elevation of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) to the status of its fifth legal ‘provisional’ province. The implications of this decision are far ...