Runyu Liang This Photo Friday highlights Siachen Glacier, the world’s highest battlefield, located on the India and Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir. Soldiers there are facing harsh conditions to ensure stableness of the line between the countries. On 25 December, the Indian Army announced the recovery of an army helicopter stuck at 18,000 feet. This ALH Dhruv chopper had …
Herald Report ISLAMABAD Political and youth activists hailing from Gilgit-Baltistan staged a protest rally outside the National Press Club, Islamabad on Friday, seeking justice for a youth who has been murdered in Rawalpindi and recovering a nursing assistant who has gone missing a week ago in Karachi. The call for the protest was given by Baltistan Youth Alliance and joined …
Farman Ali As the world pays adieu to 2018 and about to enter 2019, some big issues such as destruction of environment by climate change, rising inequality, poverty and joblessness, agonies of migration and displacement as a result of conflicts, disasters and the neoliberal economic policies as well as antagonism of big powers and their quest for hegemony are on …
Farman Ali The Speaker has withheld the “adjournment motion as inadmissible under Rules 111 (a) and (c) of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business of the National Assembly”, submitted on November 23, 2018, reads a letter by National Assembly deputy secretary Muhammad Salim to the movers of the motion. “We want to bring an important issue before the …
By Aziz Ali Dad When a society and its values become weaker, it denies existence of maladies within and attributes exogenous actors and factors for its own condition. This bent of mind in its turn begets a gamut of fallacies, sick morality, bad faith, weak metaphors and vocabulary that hides more than reveal by enunciating its stance …
HAH Report Social and rights activists as well as researchers have called upon the Gilgit-Baltistan government to take policy and legislative measures for curbing child sexual abuse. They stressed the need for change in patriarchal mindset, raising awareness about the crime in schools and setting up care centres for vulnerable children. They were speaking at a seminar on …
By Anayat Baig A new mantra of “provisional constitutional provincial status for Gilgit-Baltistan is being floated by the ‘Naya Pakistan‘ proponents, generating another controversy on social media and in political circles. While some pro-province forces are upbeat about the proposition, Kashmiri leadership as usual has expressed their reservation about it. If such a plan is approved and imposed on Gilgit-Baltistan …
High Asia Herald Report Islamabad Lawyers of Gilgit-Baltistan will observe “Constitutional Rights Day” on Tuesday, (Nov 27) by abstaining from courts and organizing rallies and meetings. The call for observing the day has been given by Gilgit-Baltistan Bar Council (GBBC) and bar associations, said an official statement of the Council. Lawyers will not attend courts throughout GB and all …
HAH Report Islamabad The government has formed a 10-member committee to examine the constitutional, governance and administrative reforms for Gilgit-Baltistan. According to a summary submitted to the Supreme Court of Pakistan by the Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP), Anwar Mansur Khan, Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Minister will be the committee’s convener with federal and GB law ministers, GB governor, the …
HAH Report Islamabad Gohar Abbas, a young journalist from Gilgit-Baltistan has won the prestigious ‘London Foreign Press Awards’. He is the Pakistan correspondent for Agence France Presse (AFP), a French news agency. Known as the “Oscars of Journalism”, the annual Foreign Press Association Media Awards ceremony is considered among the most prestigious ceremonies in the world. Gohar received the award at …
