Amid geopolitical concerns, a changing climate and the increasing intrusion of the modern world, young nomads are abandoning their traditional way of life, writes Tsering Ngodup Lama in The Kathmandu Post Dorje Rithen, 61, has lived his entire life as a nomad, and he fears that this lifestyle will end with him. Tsering Ngodup Lama/TKP Where Kunga Sangpo and Yangchen …

News Desk Dr Pema Gyamtsho has been elected new director-general of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). “He will succeed Dr David Molden at his retirement from his current position as director-general in which he served for nearly a decade with his depth and breadth of intelligence, wisdom, and gracious people-oriented leadership,” ICIMOD board of governors announced the …

32 students hailing from Gilgit-Baltistan are stranded in China waiting for repatriation for the last three months Herald Special Islamabad: Scores of students hailing from Gilgit-Baltistan are stranded in China due to non-availability of flights and closure of Khunjerav border. They have been notified by their universities and dormitories to leave the host country by July 20. Over 30 students …

‘We squandered a decade’ says UN’s outgoing special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Goal to eradicate poverty by 2030 ‘completely off track’,  with Covid-19 likely to impoverish millions more, Australian academic Philip Alston says in his report published in the Guardians International institutions are losing the fight against global poverty despite “self-congratulatory” messages to the contrary, according to the UN’s …

The recent military clash between India and China has transfixed the world, writes Ejaz Haider, a security analyst, in a special report in Dawn’s Sunday magazine. He analyzes the timing and the ramifications for the two countries and for the region. The recent bloody military clash between the two neighbouring powers in remote Ladakh Valley has transfixed the world and …

https://vodpub2.v.news.cn/publish/20200616/XxjwsmE007034_20200616_CBMFN0A001.mp4 by Zhang Zhongkai, Gao Han and Zhong Qun URUMQI, June 16: At the intersection of the two main roads of Tashkorgan Tajik Autonomous County stands a landmark sculpture of a flying eagle. The eagle is one of the most revered totems for some 33,000 ethnic Tajik people living in the county in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. For …

Pushed to the periphery, Sino-Indian war theatre Ladakh was once a gateway of South and Central Asia as well as a melting pot of ties between Turkestan, China, and South Asia, writes Iftikhar Gilani on the web page of Anadolu Agency, a Turkish online news portal. ANKARA: Not many people know that the landlocked Ladakh region, perched in high mountains and …

The team is there to re-measure the height of Everest, which is on the two countries’ border A team of Chinese surveyors have scaled Mount Everest, becoming the only climbers to summit the world’s highest peak during the coronavirus pandemic. Chinese media report the team is there to re-measure the height of Everest, which is on the two countries’ border. …

A comparative study of farming sectors of China and Pakistan   By Samiullah Najeeb   Agriculture is the most sensitive sector to climate change. The impacts of climate change and abnormal events such as rise in temperatures, extreme weather, drought, levels of carbon dioxide and sea result in a decrease in the quantity and the quality of food supplies. Climate …

The case of the Shughni language by Farman Ali The Pamirian languages are spoken by people in Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral regions of Pakistan as well as Xinjiang province of China. The Pamirian Languages — a linguistic term — has been employed even before the advent of the Soviet Union, the first socialist state, by one of the pioneers …