Herald Report In 2012, a team of archaeologists discovered ancient artifects on the Naryn campus of the University of Central Asia (UCA), says a report published in the newsletter of the university recently. The University mission to help the people of Central Asia preserve and draw upon their rich cultural traditions and heritages as assets for the future came to …

History remains the slave of victors only when people internalize the master’s version of history. History can be salvaged, retrieved and appropriated through multiple and even in mundane sources not necessarily sublime one, writes Aziz Ali Dad. By Aziz Ali Dad History is an enigmatic discipline because it deals with events of the past but its understanding tends to change …

The testing capacity of labs in worst-hit areas is being enhanced, says Hafizur Rehman while attending NCC meeting via video link   Bureau Report GILGIT: Chief Minister Hafizur Rehman has said that all pilgrims who are coming back are quarantined after screening. The confirmed patents of coronavirus are kept in isolation centres. He shared this during a meeting of the …

Five-wives-of-Khodja-Nasreddin_-dir.-Olim-Salimov-Mayakovskiy-theater-photo-Ulugova Lolisanam Ulugova traces the roots, evolution and contemporary theatre in Tajikistan which goes back to ancient centuries. In her essay in the online magazine Voices on Central Asia, she discusses in detail how do theaters in Tajikistan thrive and act at times when politics in the arts is too dangerous? My recent visit to Tashkent (the capital of Uzbekistan) …

GlacierHub celebrated five stories of women in the cryosphere as part of the celebrations of ‘Women’s History Month’   Junko Tabei, Japanese climber On May 16, 1975, Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain at 8,848 m. Tabei is also the first woman to climb the Seven Summits, the …

Running only on fast-moving water, the pumps are cheap and easy to maintain, enabling farmers to grow fruit and vegetables By Syed Muhammad Abubakar GOJAL VALLEY: Shovel in hand, Naila Shah regularly walks two miles from her home to a newly planted apple orchard, high in the mountains of Khyber village in northern Pakistan. Only two years ago, it would …

The home department writes a letter to interior ministry opposing the opening of the highest border pass   High Asia herald Report Islamabad: The Gilgit-Baltistan government has requested the federal government to allow airlifting of medical equipment from Khunjerav border pass, sources told The High Asia Herald. The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Governor Shukrat Zakir has donated the medical equipment in …

202,000 face masks, 5 ventilators, 2,000 testing kits, and 2,000 medical protective clothes will be handed over to GB officials at Khunjerav border pass on March 27th, Nazimul Amin by Farman Ali Islamabad: The governor of Xinjiang has announced a donation of medical equipment for Gilgit-Baltistan to combat coronavirus which is fast spreading in the mountainous region infecting over 80 …

To our healthcare workers: we are grateful for your service and sorry for our collective inaction. by Faizaan Qayyum The Covid-19 crisis is here and with our healthcare systems choked beyond capacity, we don’t seem to be doing very well. This is when the full force of the pandemic hasn’t hit us yet. To make it more complicated, social (or …

by Inayat Abdali   GILGIT: The administrations of Nagar District and Yasin Tehsil in Ghizer District as preemptive measures have banned all kinds of public and religious gatherings in their respective jurisdiction to contain the spread of coronavirus. According to a notification, issued by the Nagar Deputy Commissioner, the administration in pursuance of the Gilgit-Baltistan government decision and after consultation …