‘Women empowerment key to building resilient communities’
By Our correspondent Speaker of an event organised in connection with International Women’s Day highlighted the role of women in
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Ecocide in the Indus basin
By Hassan Abbas On Sept 19, 1960, a treaty was signed between India and Pakistan on water sharing. The decisions
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A greener Marx? Kohei Saito on connecting communism with the climate crisis
Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological
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Pak-Turkish varsities agree to boost collaboration
By News desk Various Pakistani universities have signed cooperative agreements with leading Turkish universities during their visit to Istanbul for
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Three projects in South Asia putting gender at the centre of responses to climate change
From who is most affected to who gets to be in the room when decisions are made, gender affects every
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Promoting mother languages
By Dr Naazir Mahmood The Indus Cultural Forum (ICF) has been organizing the Pakistan Mother Languages Literature (PMLL) Festival in
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‘More audio leaks could surface soon’
By News desk Investigative journalist Umar Cheema has claimed that the storm of audio leaks does not seem to be
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The rule of the rich
By Dr Aasim Sajjad Akhtar THE IMF issues commandments, and our finance czars comply. The most recent iteration of
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Zia Mohyeddin: A man for all seasons
By S. Amjad Hussain I was going to write about the happenings in this northwestern corner of Pakistan in the
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Safeguarding the KKH: A call for action
By Aamir Hussain Nihal The recent horrific road crash on the Karakorum Highway (KKH) which resulted in the death of
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AAC outraged at ‘capture’ of resources, wheat, power crisis in GB
By Our Special Correspondent The leadership of Awami Action Committee Gilgit-Baltistan (AACGB) – a conglomerate of half a dozen progressive
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Energy in Gilgit-Baltistan
By Amir Hussain Gilgit-Baltistan is grappling with a severe energy deficit, which has far-reaching ramifications for its economic and societal
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Burushaski script accepted, primer launched
News Desk Islamabad: The script of Burushaski, one of the endangered languages of Gilgit-Baltistan, has gotten recognition and its own
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A nascent startup aims to combat poverty in Chitral
News Desk Islamabad: In an era of global economic crisis a young entrepreneur from Chitral has embarked on an ambitious
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A full-blown crisis: What’s the way forward?
By Khairuddin Shadani As Pakistan prepares for another round of elections later this year, the country’s economic performance is a
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