GILGIT: Four more prisoners were released from Damas jail in Ghizer District on Friday. According to a notification issued by the Home Department of Gilgit-Baltistan, the authorities have issued release order of Aleemuallah Khan, Musa Khan, Irfan Ali and Shukrullah Baig. The interim government/home department with the consent of presiding Judge of Anti-Terrorism Court has ordered the release of the …

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 …

Herald Report   At least 22 passengers have perished and four others injured after a train hit a van carrying Sikh pilgrims in northeastern Punjab Province of Pakistan. Officials said the crash, involving an express train, occurred on July 3 at an unmanned railway crossing near the city of Sheikhupura in Punjab Province. Police said the pilgrims were residents of the northwestern …

The reconstruction work started after almost one year since it was damaged by floods in July last year By Gul Hamaad Farooqi CHITRAL: Rehabilitation work on Golen Gol Water Supply Project that was destroyed by glacier lake outburst floods (GLOF) on July 8, 2019, started on Monday. The project remained dysfunctional for one year depriving 40,000 residents of Chitral Town …

14 families shifted to safer places, all kinds of vehicular traffic restricted on KKH, administration, disaster management officials put on high alert. Shisper GLOF damages KKH at Hunza Shisper GLOF damages KKH at HunzaDetail story:https://thehighasia.com/shisper-glof-damages-kkh-at-hunza/#GLOF, #ShisperGlacier, #Hassanabad, #Hunza, #ClimateChange,Report: Ali Ahmed Ali AliAdditional VC: @Rehmat Karim Mughal @Saleem Ashraf Hunzai Amjad Hussain Barcha Posted by The High Asia Herald on …

A woman and a minor girl were rescued but the girl died while being shifted to a hospital Special Reporter Gilgit: Five members of a family are feared drowned following a jeep they were travelling met an accident and fell into a river on the outskirts of Gilgit late Saturday evening, sources in the Rescue 1122 told The High Asia …

The A320 plane with 99 passengers and 8 crew members onboard crashed in a residential colony near Jinnah airport. Some passengers are survived and shifted to hospital   Herald Report A passenger plane with at least 100 people on board crashed in a residential area in Karachi, the country’s civil aviation agency said on Friday. “We are trying to confirm …

Scorching heat will envelop 185m people in Pakistan; human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder and sooner than previously believed, research reveals The human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder, wider and sooner than previously believed, according to a study that shows a billion people will either be displaced or forced to endure insufferable heat for every additional 1C rise in the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

  By Wajidul Islam   COVID-19 in a single person means that the whole human species is at risk. Statistics reveal that coronavirus is spreading like wildfire all over the world including some worse hit developed countries. The developed nations struggling due to the global pandemic, range from the United States of America to Europe and thus, bearing the brunt …

By Karim Muhammad Khan   Alongside natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, tsunami, cyclones, hurricanes and drought, studies also illustrate that the history of epidemics and plagues have also ravaged human population and disrupted the pattern of normal life. For instance, the discovery of 5000-years old houses in China filled with human skeletons revealed the lethal epidemics which infected and …

The social solidarity across the globe is the main measure to stop the episode of COVID-19 By Zahra Arshad Before the emergence of the pandemic as a global challenge, an unknown sickness was first recognized in Wuhan, China in December 2019.  It was called a Chinese novel virus. Across the globe, it was considered that this virus is a confined …

A Pakistani worker in Karachi sorts wheat grain on April 7 to make flour to keep people fed during the country’s lockdown amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Shahzaib Akber (EPA-EFE) That strawberry you’re eating while self-isolating from the coronavirus? Chances are it came from a farm. Or it may have come from a large agricultural operation many, many kilometres …