Uchawo festival ends amid dances, songs
Young people select their future life partner; tourists complain about dilapidated roads, lack of facilities in Kalash valley By
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A collective vision for Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit-Baltistan has recently seen peace, tranquility and social harmony after being plagued by sectarian violence for nearly three decades. Amir
Read MorePakistani Left express solidarity with Kashmiris
Call for an end to militarisation, colonisation of all parts of Kashmir, arrests and torture of Kashmiri leaders and activists;
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Lahori paragliding pilot falls to death in Chitral
HAH Correspondent CHITRAL: A paragliding pilot has fallen to death in Chitral, police sources told The High Asia Herald. According
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Khayyam – the melody creator (1927-2019) is no more
https://youtu.be/QAvYMMWLJWc By Farman Ali Legendary music composer Muhammad Zahoor Hashmi, ‘Khayyam’, best known for his classic melodies such as
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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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