Hunza

All Parties Conference Held in Hunza Against Government Appointments

All parties in Hunza held a press conference at a local hotel to raise voice against various appointments on positions of grade-16 and above. Numerous appointments have been made in recent months that according to the speakers are not only against the merit but also illegal.

Published

3 years ago

June 19, 2016

GBee Staff

(Aliabad, Hunza) All parties in Hunza held a press conference at a local hotel to raise voice against various appointments on municipal positions of grade-16 and above. Numerous appointments have been made in recent months that according to the by-election contestants of GBLA-6 are not only against the merit but also illegal.

Obaid Ullah Baig, who is independently contesting the by-elections, demanded for fair and merit based appointments on all municipality related vacancies across the district. He also added that since the elections are yet to be held in the region, the government has taken the indecent step by announcing and then filling these positions.

Awami Workers Party (AWP) representative Syed Tajik emphasized that Hunza is one of the most literate regions in Pakistan but unfortunately government continues to suppress the well-educated people of Hunza with their non-merit based appointments. He said their party will raise voice at all forums alongside all parties who share the same vision of merit based procurement.

Earlier, Naiknam Karim, the independent candidate for GBLA-6 seat, presented a 6-point demand sheet. He said that despite the reason that both the Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan and technocrat member of GBLA on women’s seat are from Hunza, they have been unable to carry out merit based appointments.

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Hunza

Brigadier Inayat Hussain from Hunza promoted to the rank of Major General in Pakistan Army

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2 weeks ago

April 3, 2019

GBee Staff

Brigadier Inayat Hussain hailing from Ganish town of the central Hunza district has been promoted from the rank of Brigadier to Major General in Pakistan Army. He is the son of Colonel Retired Hadi Hussain.

The promotion board was held at General Headquarters in Rawalpindi which was presided over by Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa.

He is only the second army official from Hunza to be promoted on the rank of a Major General. Major General (Rtd.) Professor Salman Ali was the first army officer from Hunza to achieve this feat.

About 40 other Brigadiers were promoted to the rank of Major General during the promotion board held at GHQ, Rawalpindi.

Education

Zulfiqar Essa: Contending for the Hult Prize 2019 with a Million Dollar Idea

Published

3 months ago

January 23, 2019

GBee Staff

“My name is Zulfiqar Essa and I’m from Hyderabad, Hunza. I’m the co-founder of TechScape and previously have been awarded the Global UGRAD scholarship. Currently, I’m working on an idea called “Shirijon” which aims to create over 10,000 jobs in the next decade. I’m collaborating on this idea with my team members from Chitral, Punjab, and Germany.

Recently our idea got selected in the top 35 for HULT Prize 2019 from around two hundred thousand global applications received from across 120 countries. In the next round to be held in Amman, Jordan, we will be competing against young entrepreneurs from Harvard Business School, Cambridge, and other globally known institutions. Our idea is the very first Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral (GBC) to make it to the regional round of HULT Prize.

Our team from COMSATS University Islamabad is quite excited to participate in the 10th Annual Hult Prize Regional Summit in an attempt to win a $1 million USD as a seed fund. We think that this idea has the potential to change the economy of not only Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral but entire Pakistan as well.”

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