May 27, 2022
Editor-in-Chief: Farman Ali

The High Asia Herald

  • Home
  • Latest News
  • Pakistan
  • Gilgit-Baltistan-Chitral
  • High Asia
  • Central Asia
  • World
  • South Asia
  • Opinion
  • Sports
  • بام جہاں
Home thehighasia (page 3)

thehighasia

Posts By thehighasia

Democracy

Billionaires like Musk don’t know about democracy

By thehighasia
April 27, 2022

By Paris Marx Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has bought Twitter. Musk says he’s trying to safeguard democracy and promo…

Democracy

We don’t need billionaires like Elon Musk

By thehighasia
April 27, 2022

By Paris Marx Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter in the name of free speech is the latest example of his hubris. It’s not just t…

Pakistan

Major financial scandal awaits Imran Khan?

By thehighasia
April 26, 2022

Arif Naqvi is under house arrest in the UK. He has been close to Imran Khan since the ’90s and even admitted to funding PTI.…

Democracy

IK: anti-imperialist hero or authoritarian populist?

By thehighasia
April 26, 2022

Tooba Syed dismantles the myths surrounding the former cricketer’s supposedly anti-imperialist tenure in Pakistan by T…

Intellectuals

No meaningful evidence of coup against Imran Khan, says Noam Chomsky

By thehighasia
April 24, 2022

The famed leftwing political activist says that using the threatening letter as evidence of a coup is “meaningless”! I have …

Intellectuals

A conversation with the 2022 St. Louis Literary Award recipient Arundhati Roy

By thehighasia
April 24, 2022

This year, the Saint Louis University Library Associates will honor writer Arundhati Roy with the annual St. Louis Literary …

Democracy

Arundhati Roy on religious nationalism, dissent, and the battle between myth and history

By thehighasia
April 24, 2022

This lecture was delivered by Arundhati Roy, author of the recently published Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Ti…

Media

PFUJ hails government’s decision to abandon PMDA

By thehighasia
April 24, 2022

Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has hailed the Federal Government’s decision to abandon the establishment of Pa…

Balochistan

Women’s Action Forum condemns maltreatment of Chagai drivers

By thehighasia
April 24, 2022

Women’s Action Forum (WAF) has strongly condemned the horrific and inhumane treatment meted out to Baloch drivers in Chagai …

Gilgit-Baltistan

Baleng: The wall

By thehighasia
April 24, 2022

Rizwan Qalandar has attempted to translate a song of Rahimullah Rahim, perhaps one of the most difficult contemporary poets,…

China

Chinese center pledges to promote cultural activities

By thehighasia
April 21, 2022

On its seventh anniversary, the China Cultural Center in Pakistan has pledged to further enhance people-to-people ties throu…

Balochistan

Chaghi bleeds

By thehighasia
April 19, 2022

By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Pakistan’s democracy is apparently back on track. A new federal cabinet has been sworn in including i…

Baltistan Division

Chorbat residents protest rampant arrests by police

By thehighasia
April 19, 2022

The community members in Chorbat area of Baltistan including women and children have left their villages and taken to the st…

Politics

Petulent Imran is already plotting his return

By thehighasia
April 17, 2022

By Muhammad Hanif Last weekend, Pakistanis saw something they never expected to see: their prime minister, Imran Khan, in te…

Politics

Progressive forces urged to unite for genuine alternative

By thehighasia
April 17, 2022

The Awami Workers Party (AWP) has called for all progressive political and social forces to unite around a genuinely transfo…

1234...83Page 3 of 83

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.

Most Read Stories

  • A Paralympian’s story of courage and perseverance
  • A social worker’s dream for a better world
  • Cohen showed why we should all be socialists
  • Climate change catastrophe is here and now
  • Documentary on Islamic extremism wins award
  • ‘Living on borrowed heaven’
  • Damned from here to eternity
  • ‘Melting glaciers will impact food output in S. Asia’
  • International investment appraisal techniques
  • Book launch: Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan

A Paralympian’s story of courage and perseverance

thehighasia
21 hours ago

A social worker’s dream for a better world

thehighasia
22 hours ago
Socialism

Cohen showed why we should all be socialists

thehighasia
1 day ago

Climate change catastrophe is here and now

Inayat Amir
2 days ago

Documentary on Islamic extremism wins award

Inayat Amir
3 days ago

ARTS & CULTURE

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

thehighasia
4 weeks ago

GB mourns death of its finest musician

thehighasia
April 17, 2022
Obituary

Aijaz Ahmad, a Marxist philosopher passes away

thehighasia
March 10, 2022

Education

Socialism

Cohen showed why we should all be socialists

thehighasia
1 day ago
Investment appraisal chart

International investment appraisal techniques

thehighasia
7 days ago
Book: The Struggle For Hegemony

Book review: The Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan

thehighasia
4 weeks ago

Health

Shortage of staff impairs college education in GB

thehighasia
December 24, 2021
0

Special Correspondent GILGIT, Dec 24: As it has always been the case, higher education …

Take control of your knee pain

thehighasia
September 19, 2021
0

Knee pain is the most common health issue in mountain regions and urban centres alike. But simple home exercises and stretches can help ease some common types of knee pains.

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’

thehighasia
March 10, 2022
Climate-change

Uberisation of farmlands

thehighasia
November 18, 2021

Economy

Redistribute now

thehighasia
2 weeks ago
Development agenda for GB

A youth-led development agenda for Gilgit-Baltistan

thehighasia
June 30, 2021

Literature

Socialism

Cohen showed why we should all be socialists

thehighasia
1 day ago

Damned from here to eternity

thehighasia
3 days ago
Investment appraisal chart

International investment appraisal techniques

thehighasia
7 days ago
Left Literature

Book launch: Struggle for Hegemony in Pakistan

thehighasia
7 days ago

A forgotten centenary

thehighasia
1 week ago

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

thehighasia
2 weeks ago

Undermining the people’s will

thehighasia
3 weeks ago

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

Author praised for promoting mystic message of love, tolerance

thehighasia
March 11, 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

Work For Us

[email protected]

Follow Us

About Us

The High Asia Herald is a member publication of The High Asia Media Group and an online digital media platfrom which publishes authentic, indepth and investigative news stories, features on politics, economy, climate change, tourism, social issues, from and about High Asia, known as the ‘Roof of the World’, as well as Central Asia. The HAMG also manages and runs Baam-e-Jahan, an Urdu news portal.

 

Reach us: [email protected] / [email protected]

 

High Asia TV High Asia Radio Baam-e-Jahan
  • Popular
  • Recent
  • Comments
  • Tags

Psychopathology and societal malaise of Gilgit-Baltistan

thehighasia
October 14, 2018

Poverty of aid: Academics question US, Pakistan’s elites’ development model

thehighasia
October 8, 2018

Of ‘ghairat’ and culture in Gilgit-Baltistan

thehighasia
October 29, 2018

The alarming rise in suicide incidents in Gilgit-Baltistan

thehighasia
January 24, 2019

A Paralympian’s story of courage and perseverance

thehighasia
21 hours ago

A social worker’s dream for a better world

thehighasia
22 hours ago
Socialism

Cohen showed why we should all be socialists

thehighasia
1 day ago

Climate change catastrophe is here and now

Inayat Amir
2 days ago

Arif Hussain: You are lucky, I had my six family members onboard, unfortunately....

Ali Shah Shuwani: Singal has 100% percent Yashkun population, no Syeds, no Gushpurs and 100% Shia...

Climate change: floods damage road, a tourist resort in Chitral and Gojal - The High Asia Herald: […] Also read: Call to expedite rebuilding work on broken infrastructure i...

Sherpa falls to death on Everest while descending to C1 - The High Asia Herald: […] 200 people including Sirbaz Khan from Gilgit-Baltistan, have climbed E...

Politics Pakistan Education The High Asia Herald Tajikistan Gilgit-Baltistan Health Pakistan Hunza High Asia Literature Climate Change pandemic GB Culture India Chitral Mountaineering Central Asia Baam-e-Dunya Tourism Sports China Governance Conflict

Tags

AWP Baam-e-Dunya Central Asia China Chitral Climate Change Climbing Conflict coronavirus COVID-19 COVID19 Culture democracy Economy Education Environment Extremism feminism GB Gilgit-Baltistan Governance Health High Asia Human Rights Hunza India Kashmir Kyrgyzstan Literature Media Mountaineering Nepal Pakistan Pakistan pandemic Patriarchy Politics Religion Society Sports Tajikistan Terrorism The High Asia Herald Tourism Women Rights
© Copyright 2019, All Rights Reserved thehighasia