Documenting the dying musical traditions
https://vimeo.com/292228936 A documentary by an award-winning Pakistani filmmaker shows the lives of traditional musicians, musical instrument makers and the challenges
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Picturesque Punial valley
Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro on the heritage and folklore of the people of Punial in Gilgit-Baltistan by Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro Punial
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Minto challenges out-of-turn hearing of reference against Justice Isa
Veteran legal expert and AWP founding president Abid Hassan Minto and ex-chairperson of HRCP I.A. Rehman have jointly filed the
Read MorePakistani Left, peaceniks blast fascism, authoritarianism
Call upon peoples of South Asia to work together for the rights of oppressed nations Herald Report An alliance
Read MoreOur Kashmiriyat was pro-poor and anti-landlord
Article 370 enabled Kashmir to give land to the tiller. Today, that freedom is gone by Nyla Ali Khan The
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Climber’s body recovered, three others rescued from Nagar peak
Fida Hussain was killed while descending Mir Shikar peak in Miacher valley of Nagar district Herald Report GILGIT: A rescue
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Opinion: Imran Khan — one year of stumbling ineptitude
Prime Minister Imran Khan promised to provide relief to citizens when he came to power last year, but his government
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Central Asian steppes mutely watch Taliban’s surge
by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR Compared to the events two decades ago when the Afghan Taliban appeared in the Amu Darya
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Kashmir lockdown: The silence is the loudest sound
https://www.nytimes.com/video/players/offsite/index.html?videoId=100000006653817/ The Indian government has confined about seven million Kashmiris to their homes and imposed a complete communications
Read MoreThe case of Gilgit-Baltistan
SSR can be an effective instrument for maintaining demographic composition in J&K but it was essentially a colonial tool without
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Nepal sets new rules for Everest climbers after deadly season
Permit will depend on climbers having ascended at least one 6,500-metre Nepalese peak Also see: https://news.yahoo.com/nepal-may-implement-safety-measures-172348951.html All climbers seeking a
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Six dead, 15 injured in wall collapse during Independence Day celebrations in Gilgit
Herald Report GILGIT: Six people died and 15 others suffered injuries late Tuesday night after a boundary wall collapsed in cantonment
Read MoreWho’s who among Afghan presidential candidates
by Frud Bezhan Seventeen men will contest Afghanistan’s presidential election in a race among old power brokers — ex-government officials,
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Eid festivities muted in Indian-ruled Kashmir amid lockdown
Herald Report Indian security forces have maintained tight restrictions across its controlled Jammu and Kashmir during Eidul Azha, fearing protests
Read MoreTajik man emerges in Afghanistan as leader of IS unit of CA fighters
Sayvaly Shafiev leads a group of about 200 fighters from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and other Central Asian countries in Afghanistan, says
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