NGO Offices Being Raided in Gilgit

On April 10, 2013, police officials in the company of a magistrate raided the project office of AGHE in Skardu, the district of the highest peak of the country, K2, Gilgit-Baltistan, and took over control of office. The officials ordered the staff to vacate the office immediately and when they enquired as to the reason

Improving the Quality of Life in Northern Pakistan.

Warming Homes, Saving Trees The Hindu Kush and Karakoram mountains lie in Northern Pakistan. Winters in the mountains are harsh and natural disasters are part of life. Lack of gas supply pushes almost all rural households in the region to use wood-burning stoves and open fires or simple wood-burning stoves indoors for cooking and heating.

Democracy is Proving to be Costly in Gilgit

On August 11, 2011, around 200 persons were protesting during the visit of the Chief Minister of the Gilgit Baltistan province to Aliabad against the delay in the payment of compensation to 25 affected families of landslides near Attabad lake. In an effort to keep the protestors away from the place where the CM was

Call For Releasing Gilgit Baltistan United Movement Leader

An Open Letter from the Balawaristan National Front (BNF) forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) Mr. Asif Ali Zardari President of Pakistan President’s Secretariat Islamabad, PAKISTAN Fax 92-51-9207458 Email: publicmail@president.gov.pk Release Manzoor Hussain Parwana who has been transferred to an ISI torture cell Manzoor Hussain Parwana, the Chairman of the Gilgit Baltistan United