Peer Muhammad HUNZA: In Gilgit-Baltistan’s Hunza District, flanked by soaring mountain ranges and glaciers, plastic shopping bags are now illegal. In late April, the provincial government banned their “use, purchase, export or import” in an effort to cut plastic waste and pollution, and rolled out first deliveries of cloth shopping bags. Now those hang in shops, and many customers have …

by Abdullah Bai A rescue team in a daring operation retrieved the body of Imtiyaz Ahmed from a peak in Hindu Kush mountain range in Ghizer District of Gilgit-Baltistan on Sunday. The body was taken to Shimshal and laid to rest amid tears. A large number of people, family members, and fellow climbers laid him to rest after a week’s …