Herald Report Gilgit: The health workers in District Headquarters (DHQ) hospital here continued their protest against alleged manhandling and mistreatment of their colleague by the law enforcement personnel. They accused the police personnel of beating up their colleagues at checkpoints. They warned the government to go on a strike if actions were not taken against the LEAs involved in such …

Zaigum Abbas was terminated without prior notice for cultivating critical thinking among the students High Asia Herald Report   Lahore: The termination of a young academic of the Government College University (GCU) Lahore has prompted a strong reaction from academia, students and activists on social media. The services of Zaighum Abbas, who had been teaching political science at one of …

Afghanistan has descended into a full-blown political crisis after the two main contenders in a bitterly disputed presidential election — each claiming victory — were sworn in as president in rival ceremonies. President Ashraf Ghani, the officially declared winner of the vote, was sworn in for a second term by the country’s chief justice in Kabul on March 9. Abdullah Abdullah, …

The peace deal was signed after 18 months of talks in Doha Sorin Furcoi Al Jazeera] Peace deal signed in Qatari capital, Doha, will pave the way for the complete withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan within 14 months   Doha, Qatar: The US and the Taliban have signed a landmark peace agreement after nearly 20 years of war that could …

Azeri Ambassador Ali Alizada addressing a seminar on Together for Peace and Humanity. End to Ethnic and genocide jointly by embassy of Azerbaijan and NUML. Khojaly massacre highlighted at a seminar at NUML to remember the 613 victims killed by Armenian forces on Feb 25-26, 1992   by Gul Nayab   ISLAMABAD: Pakistan affirms its support to the stance of …

The laws that were created by the British Raj are still being used to stifle dissent on the Indian subcontinent, writes Dr Ammar Ali Jan in Al-Jazeera’s online news page. by Ammar Ali Jan   It appears to be sedition season on the Indian subcontinent. A relic of the colonial era, the sedition law has become a potent weapon in the …

A guard tower and barbed wire fences surround an internment facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park which has previously been revealed by leaked documents to be a forced indoctrination camp in Artux in western China’s Xinjiang region. (File photo) Leaked data shows the detention of 311 individuals from the Karakax County sent to internment camps for reasons their faith and …

Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, and her party supporters attend a protest march against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and a new citizenship law, in Kolkata, India, December 16, 2019. Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri Fiction in time of fake news. Below is the text of the 2020 Clark Lecture in English Literature instituted by Trinity College, Cambridge. We …

In his latest column, published in The News, Amir Hussain dislodges the myth of development practitioners and poverty alleviation careerists that “grassroots institutions of the poor” have any.transformative role beyond poverty management. He poses a question ‘whether public funds be spent on such initiatives?   We all talk about the importance of strong institutions as drivers of social progress, economic …

High Asia Herald Report LAHORE: A protest was held at Lahore Press Club on Sunday (19 Jan 2020) to demand the release of 14 political prisoners of Gilgit-Baltistan, sentenced to life imprisonment in the Hunza Riots Case of 2011.  The protest will be held every two weeks. The protest was organised by students and youth activists from GB on the …