News Desk UNESCO Director Azoulay stressed that this fundamental human right must be protected every day, especially in the face of new forms of digital exclusion. The United Nations Organization for Education, Science, and Culture (UNESCO) on Friday urged all countries to ratify the Convention Against Discrimination in Education, a multilateral instrument that turns 60 next Monday. The international agency …

YCD project is an initiative under the Programme for Poverty Reduction (PPR) of PPAF which aimed to improve the socio-economic landscape of the most underdeveloped rural areas of Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) including the ex-FATA region now part of KP

News Desk Islamabad: The majority of women face restrictions from their families when using the internet, a new study finds. Six out of 10 women internet users face some kind of restrictions from their families, finds the survey titled “Women Disconnected: Feminist Case Studies on the Gender Digital Divide Amidst COVID-19”, conducted by Media Matters for Democracy (MMfD). The study …

Karim Muhammad Khan Critical thinking and problem-solving are the core skills of the 21st Century that every educational institution should inculcate in the learners to cope with the phenomenal challenges of the modern era.   According to Facione, (1990) cited in Lai, (2011), there is consensus in US Philosophical Association that a critical thinker is one who is inquisitive, open-minded, …

Raza Gillani Why have we spent the last four years, presumably the most crucial time of our lives, organising at various campuses across the country and its administered areas on issues pertaining to student life, gender, education, class, ethnicity, race, etc.? Why have we wasted our time in searching for those who share our principles, dreams, and resolve? Why have …

Staff Reporter Students and rights activists protest outside National Press Club, Islamabad on Sunday, against sexual harassment of a student at KIU, Gilgit. Photo: High Asia Herald Islamabad: Protests continue against the alleged sexual harassment of a female student by an official of the Karakoram International University Gilgit.   Over a dozen activists of the Young Activists Movement (YAM), Progressive …

By Ashiq Ali Broghil, the most neglected valley in Hindu Kush Mountains, need government attention The Pamiri Wakhi people live in the remotest and most mountainous regions around Pamir Knot in four countries of High Asia — Afghanistan, China, Tajikistan and Pakistan. In Pakistan, the Wakhi people live in three regions – Chitral’s Broghil Valley in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Hunza District’s Gojal …

By Sana Basim ‘Men will be men’ and ‘my body my right’. These are the most famous slogans of our times but the connotations and perceptions behind both slogans are completely different. Our religious leaders always have a dominant role to endorse this mindset, despite most of the child abuse cases reported by Mudrassa teachers, still, influential religious leaders normally …

High Asia Herald Report Islamabad: The office-bearers of the Pakistan Optometry and Vision Sciences Association (POVSA) and Pakistan Optometric Society (POS) have demanded a separate regulatory body for the profession to deal with this cadre. They have proposed the nomenclature of the proposed body as Pakistan Optometry and Vision Sciences Council. In a joint statement the POS Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa President Hanifur …

By Farman Ali  Islamabad: A self-taught artist has brilliantly portrayed Covid-19 ethos, in general, and fading memories and cultural heritage as well as city life of Lahore, in particular. The online exhibition of the artworks, titled ‘City Dwellers’, by Kamal Hyatt, a development professional and free-spirited artist, is a succinct comment on the insensitivity of society towards cultural heritage now …

Self-realization is not some ‘higher state’ to be achieved, it is an honest approach to our own desires, thoughts, and intentions

Gilgit-Baltistan students are struggling to remain connected with the digital world By Ramish Khan There seems to be no one to understand the traumatic situation the students like me have been passing through for the last three months. If I start to jot down the stressful moments I have been through and how badly I have lost my mental peace, …

Beware of splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. by Helen Lewis Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers, exposed bullies — and, sometimes, ruined the lives of the innocent. Commentators warn of “mob justice,” while activists exult in their newfound power to change the …

The people of Gilgit-Baltistan are unable to cope with the situation due to degraded 4G often termed as Long Term Evolution (LTE) and fixed broadband internet services provided by SCO.

Around 1,300 Pakistani students were studying in different universities in China's Hubei province, including 800 students in Wuhan