Disaster risk management: GBDMA role slammed
Media, activists call for creating awareness about disaster risk management, quake-resistance infrastructures; special focus on differently-abled persons needs By Ghulamuddin
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Gilgit-Baltistan
Four decades of snow leopards conservation
Considered to be the icons of High Asia, the elusive snow leopards have evolved to live in some of the world’s highest and harshest habitats in 12 countries.
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Shortage of staff impairs college education in GB
Special Correspondent GILGIT, Dec 24: As it has always been the case, higher education remains a low priority of the
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PM Khan opens Skardu airport, a strategic highway
Herald Report SKARDU: Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated the Skardu International Airport saying it will promote international tourism in the
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Two girls set a new record by skiing down a peak
Two young climbers also ski down the 6,050m high Mingligh Sar peak Herald Report Parveena Ismail raising Pakistani flag on
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Siachen: two pilots die in a copter crash
Herald Report Islamabad, Dec 6: Two pilots have embraced martyrdom on Monday after an Army Aviation helicopter crashed at Siachen
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GB Council elections and Hunza
By Rizwan Qalandar The people of Gilgit-Baltistan, especially youth are lately seemed to be engaged in discussions on social media
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Rock art and inscriptions of Diamer
The rock art at Minar Gah of Diamer District in Gilgit-Baltistan provides a unique window into the way of life and belief systems of ancient times
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Diamer-Bhasha dam is neither green nor cheap
Pakistan is pushing ahead with hydropower as a low-cost way of ‘greening’ its energy sector, but this ignores the latest research as well as the history of large dams in the country.
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Kohistani Shina-Urdu dictionary published
The three-volume Shina-Urdu dictionary of Kohistani dialect has been published by The Ganddhara Hindko Board and Hindko Academy.
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Pakistan is facing an existential crisis
The UN’s IPCC report, warning of melting glaciers in Gilgit-Baltistan should be a wake-up call for Pakistan.
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In a first, an artist from GB wins Sadequain award
Imran Hunzai’s work is a critical expression and response to industry, media, and consumerism, and how inorganic culture, modernity, the commodification of values, and the influx of information are dominating organic life.
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Sportswomen display talent, energy in upper Hunza
The picturesque valley of Gojal in the Hunza district of Gilgit-Baltistan is fast becoming a talent hotspot for women’s sports. The region has already produced several talented sportswomen who have made the country proud and to see them shining as superstars in Pakistan.
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Religious history and heritage of Tangir
Anthropologist Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro shares what he learned from village historian of Tangir and some field notes.
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Making Gilgit-Baltistan fifth province
The matter of granting provisional provincial status to Gilgit-Baltistan involves a contested political process with multifarious implications to the interests of stakeholders
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