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Are Hazaras victims or blackmailers?

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 by Naveed Toshi The handsome and smart woke up late in the evening to meet the producer of Diriliş: Ertuğrul, the popular Turkish television series on the glory of the Ottoman Empire. IK was reportedly full of praise for the drama because it has depicted how Turkish Muslims made history by creating an empire fighting Mongols, Christian Byzantines and the …

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Dadhocha Dam: landowners protest forced eviction

By thehighasia
2 weeks ago
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Local people say they will not vacate their ancestral land without a settlement plan or resettlement by Punjab government; They demand increase in compensation rate for their land. Rawalpindi: Affected people of Dadhocha dam organised a public meeting and peaceful protest march here on Sunday against forced displacement without rehabilitation, seeking a substantial increase in compensation rate for their lands …

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Editorial: GB’s independence and seven decades of disenfranchisement

By thehighasia
November 1, 2020
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More than 73 years since its independence, Gilgit-Baltistan remains subject to barely disguised colonial rule to await genuine enfranchisement. While many of Pakistan’s ethnic peripheries harbour deep grievances against the authoritarian and extractive logics of the country’s statecraft, GB is arguably the only region that remains explicitly deprived of even basic democratic, constitutional and human rights. It was only in …

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A nerve-racking ordeal

By thehighasia
August 3, 2020
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GB students are struggling to remain connected with digital world By Ramish Khan There seems to be no one to understand the traumatic situation the students like me have been passing through for the last three months. If I start to jot down the stressful moments I have been through and how badly I have lost my mental peace, it …

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Inequality destroying economies, societies: UN chief

By thehighasia
July 18, 2020
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Covid-19 has exposed the myth of neoliberal free-market economic model Herald Report The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that the world is at breaking point, and the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the free market and deep divisions in society, calling for a new global deal to combat climate change, forced migration, diseases, patriarchy and racism. Inequality, an issue …

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10th NFC Award and its challenges

By thehighasia
July 9, 2020
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By Wajidul Islam   The National Finance Commission (NFC) is a resource-sharing mechanism between the federal government and federating units. It was constituted under Article 160(1) of the 1973 Constitution. It is mandatory to constitute and hold the NFC meeting in every five consecutive years. The purpose of the award is to review the collection of revenues by the Centre …

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Hoodbhoy resigns from FC College

By thehighasia
July 4, 2020
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The renowned physicist took the decision after the FCC administration termed his contract ‘non-renewable’ After an eight-year-long association, Professor Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy, an internationally renowned nuclear physicist, human rights and peace activist, on Friday resigned as Distinguished Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Forman Christian College (FCC), Lahore after the administration termed his contract “non-renewable”. He said that the resignation would take …

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New techs must serve, not hinder, right to peaceful protest: Bachelet

By thehighasia
June 29, 2020
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News Desk The internet and new digital tools are being manipulated as never before to infringe on people’s right to free assembly, the UN’s top rights official says in a call for a moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology during peaceful demonstrations. GENEVA: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called on states and businesses to …

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Contextualizing rural development

By thehighasia
May 8, 2020
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In this essay, Amir Hussain critiques the so-called Green Revolution, its myths of rural transformation in the Global South with Pakistan as a case study. This is the first piece of a series of essays, summarising literature survey that he did for the forthcoming book on rural transformation published in The News today.   Amir Hussain   Rural transformation can …

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‘Are we animals?’: migrants bear brunt of lockdown

By thehighasia
April 28, 2020
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Migrant workers in India, Pakistan and Nepal are crushed by poverty as earnings come to an abrupt halt in the lockdown forced by the Covid-19 pandemic, says a report compiled by Joydeep Gupta, Zofeen T Ebrahim, Ramesh Bhushal, published in thethirdpole.net online magazine. News Desk Across South Asia, the impact of the Covid-19 on livelihoods has been extreme. Despite being an outlier …

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‘Afghan women with disabilities face discrimination’

By thehighasia
April 28, 2020
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News Desk Disabled women in Afghanistan have complained of widespread discrimination they suffer in their country, which has one of the highest proportions of disabled people in the world. Their accounts come as Human Rights Watch reports that many also face sexual harassment from government officials. https://www.rferl.org/a/denied-treatment-education-and-jobs-afghanistan-s-disabled-women/30581580.html?ltflags=mailer Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Afghan women and girls with disabilities are being confronted …

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Outrage on preacher’s misogynistic remarks against women

By thehighasia
April 26, 2020
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Political, social, human rights activists condemn Maulana Tariq Jameel for insulting 220m people, women and media   High Asia Herald Report ISLAMABAD: Political, social and rights activists condemn Maulana Tariq Jameel for his misogynistic and hateful comments linking “women’s immodesty” to coronavirus spread in Pakistan. They sought an unconditional apology from the preacher for his controversial remarks on a TV …

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Imran Khan sidelined by military during coronavirus outbreak

By thehighasia
April 26, 2020
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Pakistan prime minister’s halting approach has left a gap for the army to step in and orchestrate policy, says a report published in the British leading newspaper Financial Times.   Imran Khan has been sidelined by Pakistan’s powerful military after failing to act decisively on the coronavirus crisis or impose a lockdown in an attempt to curb the spread of …

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Govt asked to withdraw deal with clerics, enforce complete lockdown

By thehighasia
April 24, 2020
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Doctors, WHO, and HRCP warn the government against the spike in Coronavirus cases if religious congregations allowed   High Asia Herald Report   Islamabad/Lahore/Gilgit: Doctors, world health watchdog, and a premier human rights body have alarmed at the spike in coronavirus cases in Pakistan and urged the government to enforce a complete lockdown. They have also asked the PTI-led government …

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Safeguarding public interest and role of bureaucracy

By thehighasia
April 17, 2020
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By Mesum Qasmi   Bureaucracy has three major roles to play: maintain social order, implement laws and policies framed by the legislature and regulate government functionaries’ working. It is fortified by and draws power and authority from the constitution to regulate and ensure administrative measures. Being the frontline officers to serve the public, bureaucrats need to create goodwill and friendly …

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ARTS & CULTURE

Gahvora: harmful or useful childrearing device?

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Artworks highlight gender-based violence, patriarchy

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December 12, 2020

‘Corruption virus is more harmful than Corona’

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September 30, 2020

Education

Demystifying children’s critical thinking skills

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6 days ago

Are we out of our minds?

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November 27, 2020

Protests continue against KIU student’s harassment

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November 22, 2020

Health

Spike in corona cases. Who is responsible?

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December 4, 2020
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By Neelum Wali The word COVID-19 stands for coronavirus disease. Formerly, this disease was …

You have snatched our dreams

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November 21, 2020
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By Ashiq Ali Broghil, the most neglected valley in Hindu Kush Mountains, need government …

Features & Opinion

Unwarranted abductions in UAE: Shia families fall into a further despair

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The unhygienic food and declining longevity in Gilgit-Baltistan

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December 16, 2020

Gahvora: harmful or useful childrearing device?

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December 12, 2020

Environment

Dadhocha Dam: landowners protest forced eviction

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2 weeks ago

Mountains matter for biodiversity

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December 12, 2020

Economy

Dadhocha Dam: landowners protest forced eviction

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Tehran, Kabul open first rail link

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December 11, 2020

Literature

State Sovereignty Within Borders and in the External Sphere

thehighasia
September 4, 2020

How capitalism drives cancel culture

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July 16, 2020

Mubarak Wakhani: the Leonardo da Vinci of Yamga

thehighasia
June 26, 2020

Book: Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh

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June 18, 2020

The Pamirian Languages: Between Past and Future

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May 19, 2020

Google celebrates Manto’s birthday with a doodle

thehighasia
May 11, 2020

Remembering Antonio Gramsci

thehighasia
May 8, 2020

Pandemic and poetry

Aftab Husain
April 3, 2020

Masculinity, media and madness

thehighasia
March 18, 2020

Art’s relationship with power

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March 15, 2020

Kazakh, Kyrgyz nomads under Soviet rule

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March 12, 2020

Frida Kahlo was a captivating subject for photographers

thehighasia
March 5, 2020

Mrinal Sen’s films rejected political apathy

thehighasia
February 27, 2020

The graveyard talks back –I

thehighasia
February 12, 2020

Pakistan’s literary saboteur at 100 – II

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February 6, 2020

Tourism

Rebuilding tourism in a safe, equitable & climate-friendly way

thehighasia
September 28, 2020

Tourism suffers another blow as PTDC shuts its motels, lays off employees

thehighasia
July 2, 2020

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