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 …

The criticism of Western policy by the so-called free press within narrow bounds has subtle effect of imposing the hegemonic doctrine of imperialism, serves the western dominant intellectual culture and its institutions, says Prof Noam Chomsky

Speakers at HRCP seminar decry regression of democratic values, violations of fundamental rights, propose a broad-based coalition based on minimum people's agenda 

Even if we change our emissions now, we are committed to a lot of ice melt, says Prof. Kääb. Image credit: Sharada Prasad We need to understand how glaciers are shrinking in order to better adapt to climate change impacts such as changes to water supply, landslides, and avalanches, says Prof Andreas Kääb from the University of Oslo in Norway …

Scholars debunk neoliberal development concept; offer pluriversality and inclusive development concept   by Fayyaz Baqir   We are at a critical juncture at this moment in time facing a growing disillusionment with current economic and political order that has dominated the world for quite some time. Growing concerns about climate change, rising income inequality, polarization, populist nationalism, and unending military …

The region is missing from mainstream policy discourse on Kashmir, says Dr Nosheen Ali   By Anayat Baig & Ehtesham Khan KARACHI: Pakistani rulers govern Gilgit-Baltistan as a security zone with suspicion and repressive tactics. The region’s constitutional issue, people’s aspirations and perspectives are missing from our mainstream policy and political discourse. This was the gist of the speech made …

Herald Report For the first time since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the first woman Prime Minister of the Muslim world, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders, including party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, are set to honour the memory of their late leader at Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi, on Friday (today). “After 12 years, the PPP is holding a public meeting and …

Herald Report As celebrities and TV anchors took to remembering General Pervez Musharraf as a military dictator whose progressive policies ultimately led to his own undoing, academics, and activists, including sociologists and historians, present their case against this caricature of Musharraf, says a report in The Nation newspaper. Ammar Ali Jan, an academic and activist who teaches at the Forman …

State Subject Rule and Khalsa Sarkar are outdated instruments of the colonial era which are irrelevant to address today's complex issues: Muhammad Abbas   

Amir Hussain deconstructs the popular connotation of power. He analyzes the various aspects and dimensions of what constitutes being powerful.