{"id":703,"date":"2015-02-26T12:54:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T12:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2024-04-03T10:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T10:00:51","slug":"appointment-of-barjees-tahir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/2015\/02\/26\/appointment-of-barjees-tahir\/","title":{"rendered":"Appointment of Barjees Tahir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"h1 mar-top-10\">Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees Tahir has been appointed as Governor of <a title=\"Northern Pakistan Tour\" href=\"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/northern-pakistan-tour\/\">Gilgit-Baltistan<\/a>. Later is a key Figure of the current ruling party of Pakistan (Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz). \u00a0Though Governor is currently <a title=\"Why Pakistan?\" href=\"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/why-pakistan\/\">Federal<\/a> Minister yet Federal government has appointed him as Governor. That has initiated a fresh debate in Pakistan for Pre-poll rigging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"h1 mar-top-10\">\u00a0Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees Tahir, who hails from Shangla Hill, is under a bit of pressure. Chairman Pakistan Tahreek Insaaf Mr Imran Khan is blazing all guns on this appointment. He terms the act of Government as pre-poll Rigging. According to independent sources, a local politician currently not very powerful is behind this appointment. Various lawmakers think the appointment is legal by law, but the timing makes the action suspicious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"h1 mar-top-10\">The Federal Government claims in 2009, during the PPP-led <a href=\"https:\/\/na.gov.pk\/en\/profile.php?uid=1353\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Government<\/a>, they appointed a Federal minister as Governor of Gilgit Baltistan. \u00a0Qamar Zaman Kaira was then made Governor of <a title=\"Northern Pakistan Tour\" href=\"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/northern-pakistan-tour\/\">Gilgit Baltistan<\/a>. People of Gilgit Baltistan are unhappy with the power play as they think nobody is paying attention to their problems. There are big electricity crises, and mostly 90% of <a title=\"Northern Pakistan Tour\" href=\"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/northern-pakistan-tour\/\">Gilgit Baltistan<\/a> is without Electricity. People demand they should be given a chance to elect there representatives; hence Election should not be selected by Federal Government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees Tahir has been appointed as Governor of Gilgit-Baltistan. Later is a key Figure of the current ruling party of Pakistan (Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz). \u00a0Though Governor is currently Federal Minister yet Federal government has appointed him as Governor. That has initiated a fresh debate in Pakistan for Pre-poll rigging. \u00a0Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees Tahir, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistantourntravel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}