Tehran, 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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Economy
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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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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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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Climate change: The vulnerability of farmers and state policies
A comparative study of farming sectors of China and Pakistan By Samiullah Najeeb Agriculture is the most sensitive
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Global tourist arrivals could fall by 80pc: reports
The pandemic causes a 22% decline in tourist arrivals in Q1, or $80bn loss, says UNWTO reports Herald Report
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Love in the time of corona: time to build South Asian cooperation
“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different.
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Killing the virus and saving the economy
By S. Akbar Zaidi The trade-off being presented of saving lives through a lockdown to eliminate the coronavirus and killing the
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Contextualizing rural development
In this essay, Amir Hussain critiques the so-called Green Revolution, its myths of rural transformation in the Global South with
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‘Are we animals?’: migrants bear brunt of lockdown
Migrant workers in India, Pakistan and Nepal are crushed by poverty as earnings come to an abrupt halt in the
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