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Call for criminalizing state torture

By Inayat Amir
6 days ago
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By Inayat Amir The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the state to criminalize torture and make legislations for its prevention. On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the HRCP said that neither a state of war nor an order from a superior authority justified torture which hurts the very foundation of the rule of …

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The polyglots of Dardistan

By thehighasia
1 week ago
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By Zubair Torwali Dardistan is one of the most diverse linguistic regions in the world. In the 1930s, the Norwegian linguist Georg Morgenstierne called it one of the most polyglot parts of Asia. More recently, the Italian anthropologist Augusto Cacopardo has called it ‘Peristan’, an area with an ‘enormous diversity of tongues and cultures’. The region has the large Dardic …

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The IMF bailout package and economic survival

By thehighasia
1 week ago
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By Ashab Baig The situation is so acute on Pakistan’s economic front that a bailout package from IMF has become integral to provide lifeline to the economy. The situation is alarming because of the USD/PKR exchange rate that is all time high at 212, single digit USD reserves of less than 9 billion barely enough to afford 45-day import bill; …

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Why mobile journalism is modern journalism

By thehighasia
1 week ago
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By Devin Windelspecht More than five billion people have mobile devices today, with studies suggesting that over 70% of internet users will be accessing the internet solely through their smartphones by 2025. The growing population of smartphone users is changing how we see and consume information: from the filming of police violence in the U.S. to using smartphone text chains …

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A look at democracy

By thehighasia
1 week ago
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By Naazir Mahmood The National Institute of Pakistan Studies (NIPS) at the Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad is a rare centre of debate and discussion where one can speak freely. When Prof Saeed Rid and Dr Manzoor Veesrio invited me to speak there about the crisis of democracy in Pakistan, I was a bit reluctant. The hesitation evaporated when they assured me …

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AWP vows to emerge as a genuine alternative force

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1 week ago
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By News Desk The Awami Workers’ Party (AWP) is committed to becoming a genuine alternative force by uniting all Left-wing, progressive, secular and nationalist parties and groups and launching a country-wide struggle for bringing about change in the existing decadent system and building a socialist society. This was the gist of the speeches made by Federal President Yousuf Mustikhan, General …

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HKP: New Left party to strive for labourers’ rights

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1 week ago
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HKP launch

Haqooq-e-Khalq Party presents a charter of demand including Rs40,000 minimum wage for labourers; it will field labourers as its candidates in the local government and general elections.

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Call for declaring mental health emergency in GB

By thehighasia
2 weeks ago
in :  Crime, Domestic Violence, Ghizer, Gilgit-Baltistan, Health, High Asia Region, Hindu Kush Ranges, Hunza, Slider, Society, WHO
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Ghizer Youth Maraka

Participants of Ghizer Youth Maraka blast successive governments for their failure and apathy in addressing the issue

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Women’s role in ecosystem restoration

By thehighasia
2 weeks ago
in :  Biodiversity Conservation, Climate Change, Conservation, Disaster, Ecology, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, Women
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Eco-feminism

by Ali Rehmat Shimshali Have you ever imagined progress of a society, or a nation without women? To answer this question, let us confine it to our homes. What troubles do we face in the absence of our moms and sisters? They are nuclous in every family and society. When the nuclous breaks the entire system collapses. So how can …

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What’s fueling Chitral’s high rate of suicide cases?

By thehighasia
3 weeks ago
in :  Chitral, Ghizer, Gilgit-Baltistan, Society
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Anomie

For years, suicide cases in Chitral and Gilgit Baltistan have been haunting the mountain communities, but a fresh wave of suicides has left them baffled. Ahmad Faraz sheds light on the issue with a nuanced understanding of the local milieu.

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Moot stresses need to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene

By thehighasia
3 weeks ago
in :  Health, Women
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By Shahana Tabassum To ensure wellbeing of women and girls in society, it is important to create awareness about menstrual hygiene management (MHM). Therefore, the stakeholders from public, private, and development sectors should join hands to enhance impact and outreach of their efforts. Global MH Day 2022 event celebrated by Balochistan Rural Support Programme (BRSP) in Quetta was a commendable …

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Anita Karim knocks Aussie opponent out to bag sensational victory

By Inayat Amir
3 weeks ago
in :  Sports
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Pakistan’s first-ever female Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter Anita Karim has won her fight against Australia’s Uyen Ha at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok Thailand, putting her supper girl skills at display. She won by unanimous decision under the banner of Fairtex Fight Promotion. Famously known as “the arm collector” for her tradmark lethal armlock, the 25-year-old prodigy made light work …

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Protestors march against govt’s ‘neo-liberal policies’

By thehighasia
3 weeks ago
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By News Desk A large number of working class people, katchi abadi residents, students, trade union activists and progressive political workers gathered in Aabpara Chowk to protest the rising costs of living. Organised by Awami Workers Party (AWP) and Progressive Students Federation (PrSF), the ‘Mehangai Mukhalif March’ centred around the core issue of economic justice and how the Pakistani economy, …

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What the worker says

By thehighasia
3 weeks ago
in :  Human Rights
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By Dr. Naazir Mahmood The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) is an area where one would expect much better labour laws and working conditions compared to other parts of the country. Sadly, this is not true. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) keeps an eye on such issues, conducts fact-finding missions across the country and holds dialogues. On June 7, …

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Suicide: the never-ending pandemic in GBC

By thehighasia
3 weeks ago
in :  Ghizer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Health, Human Rights, Opinion, Pakistan, Pandemic, Society
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Suicide

By Rozina Parveen When the horrors of life outway the terrors of death a man commits suicide — Albert Camus Suicide cases are on the rise in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. According to media reports in Pakistan 20 people, mostly female, aged between 15 and 35 years, take their lives every day. According to studies and survey reports, there has been …

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Pakistan’s climate catastrophe

Unprecedented flash floods, water scarcity, dying glaciers, abruptly changing weather patterns, rising cases of rare diseases, and climate-change-induced loss of natural habitat are some of the discernible symptoms that are already on display in the South Asian country.

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  • HKP: New Left party to strive for labourers’ rights
  • Call for declaring mental health emergency in GB
  • Women’s role in ecosystem restoration
  • What’s fueling Chitral’s high rate of suicide cases?

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The polyglots of Dardistan

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A look at democracy

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ARTS & CULTURE

Fukuoka Prize

Pakistani miniaturist wins Japan’s Fukuoka Prize

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4 weeks ago

An anthropologist’s 20-year quest to document Pakistan’s ancient rock art

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May 1, 2022

GB mourns death of its finest musician

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April 17, 2022

Education

QAU ranked among top 50 varsities in research productivity

thehighasia
3 weeks ago

Oxford launches new Pakistan programme

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4 weeks ago

42 Pakistani varsities make it to Times rankings

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4 weeks ago

Health

Call for declaring mental health emergency in GB

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Participants of Ghizer Youth Maraka blast successive governments for their failure and apathy in addressing the issue

Moot stresses need to raise awareness about menstrual hygiene

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By Shahana Tabassum To ensure wellbeing of women and girls in society, it is …

Features & Opinion

Glacier surge

Shisper glacier surge: societal impacts, interventions

thehighasia
March 11, 2022
IWWD2022

IWD: GB women striving for social justice, rights

thehighasia
March 8, 2022
Adiba murder case

Murdered women: Adiba Parveen, the quietest girl in the valley

thehighasia
March 8, 2022

Environment

GB's constitutional package

GB constitutional package: ‘move aims to legitimise colonial rule’

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March 10, 2022
Climate-change

Uberisation of farmlands

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November 18, 2021

Economy

The IMF bailout package and economic survival

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1 week ago

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3 weeks ago

Literature

Women's rights

Feminism: 5 books every woman should read

thehighasia
May 29, 2022
Socialism

Cohen showed why we should all be socialists

thehighasia
May 26, 2022

Damned from here to eternity

thehighasia
May 24, 2022
Investment appraisal chart

International investment appraisal techniques

thehighasia
May 20, 2022
Left Literature

Book launch: Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan

thehighasia
May 20, 2022

A forgotten centenary

thehighasia
May 19, 2022

Book review: Man’s search for meaning is a beacon of hope

thehighasia
May 11, 2022

Undermining the people’s will

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May 8, 2022

Baleng: The wall

thehighasia
April 24, 2022
Obituary

Aijaz Ahmad, a Marxist philosopher passes away

thehighasia
March 10, 2022

Scholar, media historian Mehdi Hasan’s death condoled

Inayat Amir
February 24, 2022
Pamirian-languages

Call for promotion of Pamirian languages

thehighasia
November 19, 2021
Literature

Kohistani Shina-Urdu dictionary published

thehighasia
October 23, 2021

Manufacturing Zombies

thehighasia
July 28, 2021

Remembering Hamza Alavi: Interpreting Pakistan, changing the world

thehighasia
April 13, 2021

Tourism

Exclusive Interview: Denis Urubko on Nims, O2, and the Rules of Winter

thehighasia
February 24, 2022
Tourism

First Global Youth Tourism Summit gets underway

thehighasia
February 4, 2022

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