{"id":4714,"date":"2009-02-03T19:56:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T14:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=4714"},"modified":"2009-02-03T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T14:56:11","slug":"relief-sought-for-snow-affected-areas-in-gilgit-baltistan-gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2009\/02\/03\/relief-sought-for-snow-affected-areas-in-gilgit-baltistan-gb\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief sought for snow affected areas in Gilgit &#8211; Baltistan (GB)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\"><strong>[Press Release]<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u201cThe masses of Gilgit Baltistan are living a miserable life due to severe cold and record snowfall but the government has done nothing to help them resolve their miseries.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">These views were expressed by Manzoor Hussain Parwana chairman Gilgit Baltistan United Movement while talking to the journalists here at Skardu.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">He said that the masses of the region were dying of severe cold as there was no fuel available in the region except timber which too was not available in a sufficient amount<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">The condition of the basic health units established in various rural areas of the region was abysmal as they lacked medicine and other health care facilities.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">Heavy snowfall had disrupted the transport system so the people living in the far-flung rural areas did not even have to option to access to secondary health care facilities established in the district headquarters. Food and other basic utilities too were going to unavailable.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">He demanded of the government to announce a relief package for the masses of Gilgit Baltistan. If Pakistan is not capable to running the affairs of the region, why it is clinging on to the region? He asked.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;margin:0;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">Parwana slammed the bureaucracy and said the non-local officers were the root cause of these miseries of the masses. Non- locals are given the reins of the region who have not even visited the region before being bestowed with key posts. How will they serve the region as they don\u2019t have the slightest idea of the problems of the masses?\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Press Release]\u00a0\u201cThe masses of Gilgit Baltistan are living a miserable life due to severe cold and record snowfall but the government has done nothing to help them resolve their miseries.\u201d\u00a0 These views were expressed by Manzoor Hussain Parwana chairman Gilgit Baltistan United Movement while talking to the journalists here at Skardu.\u00a0 He said that the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"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":[4781],"class_list":["post-4714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gilgit-baltistan","tag-gilgit-baltistan"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}