Hunza

Gojal Champions League 2018 (GCL) starts from January 20

Gojal Champions League 2018 (GCL) will start from 20th January 2018 at Gulmit Gojal, Hunza. All major teams from across Gojal Valley have been invited. It is being expected that more than a dozen teams will participate despite harsh weather conditions and unavailability of many players who are currently in other parts of the country either for work or studies.

Published

1 year ago

January 19, 2018

Taseer Beyg

Gojal Champion League is being organized by Gulmit Young Stars Club and Students Welfare Organization which is one of the most active football clubs of Gilgit Baltistan. The same club is also the brain behind the popular football league Gulmit Premier League (GPL).

Formerly, Gojal Champions League was organized under Aga Khan Youth and Sports Board, Gulmit. The youth of Gojal Valley participated in the different editions with great zeal. However, from this year onwards, Gulmit Young Stars will organize the event on a yearly basis.

The main objective of the tournament is to engage the youth of Gojal in healthy activities like sports. The league will carry forward the slogan of “A healthy brain lives in a healthy body!”

Taseer Beyg

Taseer Beyg is an aspiring young photographer and graphic designer from Gojal, Hunza. He contributes stories related to sports, travel and cultural events.

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Hunza

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

Published

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

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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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