Gilgit-Baltistan Polls: Now Comes The Real Test
by Fazal Ali Saadi The Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly elections held on June 7, 2026, were largely peaceful, barring isolated violence and
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Diamer Division: A Landscape of Neglect and Backwardness
by F.Ali & Ghulamuddin Diamer Division comprises Astore and Diamer districts, the most neglected and impoverished region in Gilgit-Baltistan. Poverty
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Gilgit Division– A Powder Keg of Identities and Power
by F.Ali & Ghulamuddin Comprising the four districts of Gilgit, Ghizer, Hunza, and Nagar, the Gilgit Division is far more
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Baba Jan’s disqualification shakes Gilgit-Baltistan
Bureau Report Gilgit, May 8: In a ruling that has sent shockwaves through Gilgit-Baltistan’s political landscape, the Election Appellate Tribunal
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Phantoms of Power in Gilgit-Baltistan: Power and Pandemonium-II
By: Aziz Ali Dad The process of subjugation in Gilgit-Baltistan entails continuous emaciation of local society on the one side,
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Pakistan in peril: economic ruin and militarisation of society
Democratic decentralisation such as granting ownership of resources to the people of Balochistan, Pakhtunkhwa, and internal autonomy, self-rule to Gilgit-Baltistan, could mitigate extremist militancy and separatist impulses
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Polls-2024: LDF to back component parties’ candidates
Over two dozen candidates from LDF component parties — 2 from the HKP, 9 from the AWP, 10 from AT,
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Venal ruling class
By Dr Aasim Sajjad Akhtar It is all so predictable. The raids on homes of opposition leaders and workers. Heavy-handed
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Venal ruling class
By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar IT is all so predictable. The raids on homes of opposition leaders and workers. Heavy-handed baton
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Billionaires like Musk don’t know about democracy
By Paris Marx Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has bought Twitter. Musk says he’s trying to safeguard democracy and
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An open letter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan
Prominent academics, citizens and opinion makers of the country have called upon the Chief Justices of Pakistan to burry the
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A day of ‘shame’: Democratic voices oppose govt’s move to dissolve NA
By Inayat Amir In a swift rejoinder to the government’s move to dissolve National Assembly in a bid to evade
Read MoreManufacturing zombies
by Waseem Altaf Writing textbooks for students who are in a formative stage is serious business. Errors and omissions on
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Dictators isolated key ingredients of democratic struggle: Rabbani
Senator Raza Rabbani says, dictatorships of Ayub Khan and Ziaul Haq had deliberately isolated key ingredients of the democratic struggle, including students, labour and intellectuals. Although Benazir Bhutto had attempted to restore student unions in 1988, ‘the overarching state structure to which all political governments were, and continue to be, held hostage’ had prevented these efforts from materialising.
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Are we out of our minds?
Raza Gillani Why have we spent the last four years, presumably the most crucial time of our lives, organising at
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