Matiullah Jan returns home amid massive support on social media
Noted journalist Matiullah Jan returns home nearly 12 hours after he was abducted from Sector G-6, a highly secured locality of Islamabad in broad daylight.
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Frustration and freedom under repressive politics
Leila Slimani on sex and ethics of women’s liberation in Morocco By Leïla Slimani When, in the summer of 2014, I published
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‘Inequality destroying economies, societies’
Covid-19 has exposed the myth of the neoliberal free-market economic model Herald Report The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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Yak herding is vanishing in Upper Mustang. So are the yaks.
Amid geopolitical concerns, a changing climate and the increasing intrusion of the modern world, young nomads are abandoning their traditional
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Resisting power structures that keep colonialism alive
We must look at the roots of capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness to leave settler colonialism in the past. by LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE
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ICIMOD gets new director general
News Desk Dr Pema Gyamtsho has been elected the new director-general of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD).
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How capitalism drives cancel culture
Beware of splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. by Helen Lewis Tumbrels are rattling through the streets
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Pakistan’s beauty salons employing acid attack survivors
A job scheme for women who may otherwise be shunned as outcasts is allowing many to rebuild their lives. Shah
Read MoreWith schools shut, Afghan children work the poppy fields
https://rferl.org/b7e6d5f3-b05f-4931-b01d-68d882520393 ‘In Afghanistan’s Badakhshan Province, more children are working in the poppy fields and selling opium after schools were shut
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Fighting Covid-19: Tajik doctor donates Hajj savings
News Desk Shirin Nazirmadova, a doctor from southern Tajikistan, has been saving for years to afford the hajj pilgrimage that
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As US moves to exit Afghanistan, rivals prepare to swoop in
News Desk The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was backed by most countries in the region, who shared the
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Decolonising aid, again
‘The unfinished business of decolonisation is the original sin of the modern aid industry.’ by Paul Currion This year calls
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History of human violence explains how society shaped killing
‘Most parts of the world are safer than ever before. But a few are probably the most violent that human
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Football: high goals
Participating teams of Gilgit-Baltistan Girls Football League 2019 at Passu, Gojal, Hunza: Photo: GBGFL Ayesha Izhar As the first ray
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Tourism: the closing of Gilgit-Baltistan
Will the reopening of tourism in GB provide some relief or has the pandemic made the future of tourism more
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