{"id":33527,"date":"2013-03-22T01:55:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T20:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=33527"},"modified":"2013-03-22T02:48:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T21:48:27","slug":"shigar-gilgit-baltistan-gets-8th-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2013\/03\/22\/shigar-gilgit-baltistan-gets-8th-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Shigar: Gilgit-Baltistan gets 8th district"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Shigar<\/a>
Shigar is the textured and highlighted part on this map<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n

Skardu, March 21<\/strong>: Chief Minister, Syed Mehdi Shah, today announced the establishment of Shigar District in the Baltistan division of Gilgit-Baltistan region. Shigar will now be the 8th district of the region, the others being Astore, Diamer, Gilgit, Ghanche, Ghizer, Hunza-Nagar and Skardu.<\/p>\n

The Chief Minister also announced creation of Ghwari and Kiris sub-divisions in the Baltistan region.<\/p>\n

The announcement was made a huge public gathering in Shigar Pologround, attended by thousands of people from across the region. The establishment of Shigar district was a longstanding demand of the people of the sub-divison. Previously, Shigar was a sub-division within the Skardu district.<\/p>\n

The Chief Minister chose the occasion of Navroz to announce the decision. He is also likely to announce the establishment of Kharmang District within a couple of days, taking the total number of districts to nine.<\/p>\n

While the decision to make newer administrative units in the region is politically correct and popularly appealing, its financial viability is a big question mark. Already, the district of Hunza-Nagar and other administrative units have been facing severe difficulties due to dearth of financial resources.<\/p>\n

Provincial ministers and members of the assembly attended the ceremony along with government officials and local leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our Correspondent Skardu, March 21: Chief Minister, Syed Mehdi Shah, today announced the establishment of Shigar District in the Baltistan division of Gilgit-Baltistan region. Shigar will now be the 8th district of the region, the others being Astore, Diamer, Gilgit, Ghanche, Ghizer, Hunza-Nagar and Skardu. The Chief Minister also announced creation of Ghwari and Kiris …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gilgit-baltistan"],"better_featured_image":{"id":33528,"alt_text":"","caption":"Shigar is the textured and highlighted part on this map ","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1074,"height":541,"file":"2013\/03\/shigar.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"shigar-250x250.jpg","width":250,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shigar.jpg?resize=250%2C250&ssl=1"},"medium":{"file":"shigar-450x226.jpg","width":450,"height":226,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shigar.jpg?fit=450%2C226&ssl=1"},"large":{"file":"shigar-600x302.jpg","width":600,"height":302,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shigar.jpg?fit=600%2C302&ssl=1"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"shigar-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shigar-50x50.jpg"},"gab_featured":{"file":"shigar-800x402.jpg","width":800,"height":402,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shigar-800x402.jpg"},"150x150":{"file":"shigar-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shigar-150x150.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"shigar-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shigar-415x260.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":0,"credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":0,"copyright":"","focal_length":0,"iso":0,"shutter_speed":0,"title":""}},"post":33527,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shigar.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/shigar.jpg?fit=1074%2C541&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33527"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33531,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33527\/revisions\/33531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}