{"id":59677,"date":"2016-05-14T01:31:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=59677"},"modified":"2016-05-14T01:31:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T20:31:30","slug":"land-auction-issue-gilgit-baltistan-chief-court-to-hear-sost-dry-port-trusts-appeal-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2016\/05\/14\/land-auction-issue-gilgit-baltistan-chief-court-to-hear-sost-dry-port-trusts-appeal-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Auction Issue: Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court to hear Sost Dry Port Trust\u2019s Appeal on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>With reporting by Abdul Rehman Bukhari\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Gilgit, May 14:<\/strong> The Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court will hear an appeal made by the Silk Route Dry Port Trust on Monday against the auction of the Pak-China\u00a0Dry Port\u2019s land. The Court had, a couple of months back, ordered auctioning of the port\u2019s land to pay the National Bank a sum of 500 million rupees taken in loan, and not returned by the officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zafar Iqbal, Chairman of the Port Trust said that the loan from the National Bank of Pakistan had been obtained\u00a0by Yang Jiamin and Prince Saleem Khan, and that it has nothing to do with the Port Trust. He added that the port\u2019s land belongs to the community and several community institutions have shares in it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further said that if auctioning of land is inevitable to return the loan to\u00a0the National Bank of Pakistan, then the properties of the people who took the loan should be auctioned.\u00a0The Silk Route Dry Port Trust has filed the appeal to stop the scheduled sale of the land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zafar Iqbal also said\u00a0that as per an agreement, the Chinese authorities were bound to transfer the control\u00a0of the port to the Silk Route Dry Port Trust in 2014. He said that the authorities in Gilgit-Baltistan should take notice of the delay caused in the agreed transferring of the port\u2019s control.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With reporting by Abdul Rehman Bukhari\u00a0 Gilgit, May 14: The Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court will hear an appeal made by the Silk Route Dry Port Trust on Monday against the auction of the Pak-China\u00a0Dry Port\u2019s land. 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