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By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar It has been a month since the so-called unity government came to power. It still seems
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Economy
A youth-led development agenda for Gilgit-Baltistan
Riaz Akbar spells out a comprehensive youth-led development roadmap for Gilgit-Baltistan, outlining four areas that can kick-start GB’s economy and increase the whole pie of the budget.
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Dadhocha Dam: landowners protest forced eviction
Local people say they will not vacate their ancestral land without a settlement plan or resettlement by Punjab government; They
Read MoreTehran, Kabul open first rail link
The $75m-project will facilitate trade, and travel between the two countries. The key infrastructure was started in 2007 with Iranian
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Bargain: NAB court accepts Salim Khan’s plea
High Asia Report GILGIT: An accountability court on Tuesday accepted the plea bargain application of Salim Khan, a former member
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Rural response to Covid-19
Mushtaq Ahmad There is a long history of global pandemic and epidemics, but there is also evidence that all these
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Rebuilding tourism in a safe, climate-friendly way
The global community unites to celebrate “tourism and rural development” High Asia Herald Report Summer holidays used to be the
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‘Inequality destroying economies, societies’
Covid-19 has exposed the myth of the neoliberal free-market economic model Herald Report The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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Yak herding is vanishing in Upper Mustang. So are the yaks.
Amid geopolitical concerns, a changing climate and the increasing intrusion of the modern world, young nomads are abandoning their traditional
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Resisting power structures that keep colonialism alive
We must look at the roots of capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness to leave settler colonialism in the past. by LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE
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10th NFC Award and its challenges
By Wajidul Islam The National Finance Commission (NFC) is a resource-sharing mechanism between the federal government and federating units. It
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World losing fight against poverty: UN academic
‘We squandered a decade’ says UN’s outgoing special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Goal to eradicate poverty by 2030
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Poppy production rises in Badakhshan province
blob:https://www.rferl.org/f0105167-7ca9-4487-9108-c8abda861a2b Afghanistan lost $1 million in international funding this year making the drive to halt heroin production in Badakhshan even more
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Pamir Mountains: how medicinal, aromatic plants contribute to food security
Agricultural village in Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Photo by Christopher Wilton-Steer/UCA Herald Report In Pamir mountains of High Asia region with limited
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Mother Mountain
M Ajmal K Masood While travelling to the north, most of the youth make their travelling statuses
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