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Pakistan reels from floods

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September 18, 2022

After record temperatures and drought, swaths of Pakistan lie submerged, symptoms of a climate crisis its people play little…

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GilgitApp: a startup making its mark in eCommerce

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September 18, 2022

Through GilgitApp, you can buy and sell a wide range of products, including cars, motorbikes, mobile phones, laptops, home a…

Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue
China

Scrutinising US Indo-Pacific Strategy

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September 11, 2022

By Hamdan Ahmed After widening Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD) strategic agenda, particularly focusing on limiting Chi…

Clampdown on Pamiris
Central Asia

Tajik authorities intensify crackdown on Pamiris

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September 10, 2022

Since July, the courts have handed down more than 5,000 verdicts with heavy sentences against members of a Shiite Ismaili et…

Discussion
Crime

Call for an end to enforced disappearances

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September 4, 2022

Senator Farhatullah Babar says a new instrument of law to redefine the mandate of ISI and to bring the intelligence agencies…

Disaster
Biodiversity

Man-made catastrophe

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August 26, 2022

The scale, scope and spread of the 2022 floods have surpassed the super floods of 2010. The monsoon rains have created unpre…

G-B Masp
Development

Pakistan at 75 and Gilgit-Baltistan’s future

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August 14, 2022

By Ziauddin Ali Shah As Pakistan commemorates the 75th Independence Day, it is important to reflect upon the achievements, f…

Gashaerbrum-I summit
Climbing

Scaling all 8000ers: Sirbaz inches closer to goal

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August 14, 2022

Sirbaz Ali Khan scaled on August 12, 2022, Gasherbrum-I, the 11th highest mountain in the world, and the 12th on the list of…

Archives

GLOFs pose major threats to people in G-B, Chitral

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August 13, 2022

Steve Cole, Erin Guiltenane In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using 30 years of NASA satellite data ha…

Chinese Imperialism?
China

Imperialisms in our times

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August 13, 2022

Making sense of ‘Chinese characteristics’. Is it time for the Pakistani Left to start talking about Chinese R…

Mount Everest
Climbing

Everest: still climbing’s most coveted prize

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August 13, 2022

Everest, the world’s highest mountain, is a sought-after prize, though rampant commercialization has significantly changed t…

New

Activist, MNA booked on sedition charges

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August 11, 2022

Baloch students and activists are also among those booked By Inayat Amir The Islamabad police have registered a sedition cas…

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GB status: speakers for public discourse on bill

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August 11, 2022

Islamabad: Former political prisoner and AWP leader Baba Jan delivered a charged speech on the occasion. Political and socia…

Youngest climber on G-II
Climbing

Another feather in the cap of Kashif Shehroze

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August 8, 2022

Kashif Shehroze aka Broadboy on Aug 8, 2022 became the youngest climber in the world to summit Gasherbrum-II mountain. …

Three TTP commanders killed
Afghanistan

Three TTP commanders killed in Kabul blast

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August 8, 2022

News Desk Three senior commanders of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been killed reportedly in a blast in southeast…

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Tracking 3 decades of dramatic glacial lake growth

In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change. Courtest: NASA/National Geographic

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ARTS & CULTURE

Burushaski script

Burushaski script accepted, primer launched

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February 2, 2023
Fukuoka Prize

Pakistani miniaturist wins Japan’s Fukuoka Prize

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June 6, 2022

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

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May 1, 2022

Education

Burushaski script

Burushaski script accepted, primer launched

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February 2, 2023
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Torching girls’ school and emerging situation in GB

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November 11, 2022
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Health

Pakistan at 75 and Gilgit-Baltistan’s future

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By Ziauddin Ali Shah As Pakistan commemorates the 75th Independence Day, it is important …

Period poverty and its impact on women

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By Meerab Malik Meerab Malik discusses the struggle many low-income women and girls face …

Features & Opinion

GLOF Risk

Chitral: Oveer Lasht residents live in constant fear

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August 7, 2022
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K2 is beginning to look a lot like Everest

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Naazir’s letter to father Rashad on his 90th birthday

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July 11, 2022

Environment

The world & us

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January 21, 2023
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August 14, 2022

Economy

A full-blown crisis: What’s the way forward?

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January 29, 2023

The world & us

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January 21, 2023

Literature

Burushaski script

Burushaski script accepted, primer launched

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February 2, 2023

Philosophy of happiness: What does it mean to be happy

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September 29, 2022
Revolutionary

Naazir’s letter to father Rashad on his 90th birthday

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July 11, 2022
Science and History

The dangerous populist science of Harari

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July 11, 2022
Women's rights

Feminism: 5 books every woman should read

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May 29, 2022
Socialism

Cohen showed why we should all be socialists

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May 26, 2022

Damned from here to eternity

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May 24, 2022
Investment appraisal chart

International investment appraisal techniques

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May 20, 2022
Left Literature

Book launch: Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan

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May 20, 2022

A forgotten centenary

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May 19, 2022

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

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May 11, 2022

Undermining the people’s will

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May 8, 2022

Baleng: The wall

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April 24, 2022
Obituary

Aijaz Ahmad, a Marxist philosopher passes away

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March 10, 2022

Scholar, media historian Mehdi Hasan’s death condoled

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Tourism

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Swat: The paradise lost

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