Nowruz celebrations welcome spring with music, food, & fire
Nowruz festival-related celebrations promote peace, prosperity, and solidarity within communities by recognizing the significance of our pluralistic identities.
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High Asia
Contested Commons under Threat
The wider Himalayan Arc, consisting of mountain ranges that incorporate major mountain systems such as the Tien Shan, Pamir, Hindu Kush, Karakoram, Himalaya, and Kun Lun Shan Mountains, is ecologically a very diverse mountainous region with peaks and plateaux. Steep mountain slopes and deeply incised valleys, glaciated areas above the snow lines, deserts and steppes, forests, rangelands, and wetlands compose a region that offers limited space for mountain communities to settle in compact oases and vast areas for extensive forms of pastoral practices herding predominantly for 16 million yaks, and much higher numbers of sheep and goats. About 60% of the Hindukush-Himalayan surface is composed of rangelands and pastures.
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KKH: a wonder or woe for travellers?
The Karakoram Highway (KKH), often referred to as the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’, stands as a testament to human ingenuity and an engineering marvel connecting Pakistan and China. The 1,300-km highway meanders through some of the world’s most stunning landscapes and cultures and mountain ranges, including the Karakoram, Himalayas, and Hindu Kush. The KKH offers travelers a unique and awe-inspiring journey through lush valleys, waterfalls, and picturesque villages.
However, travelers must also be prepared for the challenges it presents, including safety concerns, remote conditions, and infrastructural limitations. A trail of tragic accidents and the loss of hundreds of precious lives annually on the highway reveals a darker reality that must be addressed urgently.
Climate change effects on Gilgit-Baltistan
Climate change, neoliberal development, resource capture by the elite and the powerful as well as unbridled mass tourism have posed potential threats to the inhabitants, their society, culture, health, and the fragile ecology of Gilgit-Baltistan.
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Samina, 33 others summit ‘killer mountain’
The 10-member Karakorum Expeditions Pakistan-international joint expedition team, led by Samina Baig, made it to the summit of the 8,126m (26,660 feet) peak on Sunday
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20 climbers summit Nanga Parbat
The summit group was larger than expected thanks to a few last-minute additions, namely, Kristin Harila and her sherpa team
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The neoliberal environmentalism-I
Corporate giants use clever tactics to quickly make massive profits, but they don’t realize the climate crisis is caused by their rapacious exploitation of land use, water use, and fossil fuel, and their endless quest for profiteering is seizing our ability to breathe clean air.
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Lowah: a Khowar pastoral ode
In Khowar language, there exists a sacred pastoral ode known as “Lowah.” that captures the spirit of a goat’s carefree descent (wallowing), when its belly is satiated from the bountiful highland grazing, and it purposefully ambles down the earthen drift way towards the humble abode of its master.
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‘Two Poets and a River’ – the story of love and loss
‘The Two Poets and a River’ is a film that tells the story of two Wakhi musicians, who share a language, faith, and family network but are separated by the Oxus River.
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When the messiah becomes a slayer
Trophy hunting, whether undertaken by women or men, is a harmful and unsustainable practice that has no place in modern society. NWF-GB
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By Nadia Zartaj Gilgit-Baltistan, with its unique geography, has one of the most diverse landscapes on earth. The region is
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Book highlights diverse ecosystem of HKH regions
HAH Special Correspondent Islamabad: A book on studies of three major mountain regions of Pakistan has been published. The book,
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Women’s right to property and inheritance in Hunza
by Rozina Ahmed Debate over women’s right to property and inheritance in Pakistan, in general, and in Gilgit-Baltistan, in particular,
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Meta expands digital literacy programme to G-B
The programme has reached 130,000 students and 3,094 teachers across 28 districts of the country providing them with a collection of accessible learning modules that help people think critically and share online thoughtfully, as well as empowering them with the skills needed to be informed and safe online.
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Sports fest organised for Chitral jail inmates, staff
The two-day events aimed at providing entertainment and engaging 90 prisoners including four women in healthy activities By Gul Hamaad
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