Call for making public Justice Muhammad Alam judicial inquiry report of August 11, 2011 incident of Aliabad Herald Correspondent HUNZA, June 18: Family members of imprisoned youth languishing in Gilgit-Baltistan jails have demanded their release and making public the judicial inquiry report of the Aliabad incident. “We will launch a protest campaign if the 12 youths languishing in Gahkuch and …
Madeeha Syed It’s only just the start of the summer mountaineering season in the Himalayas and the Karakoram and already our Pakistani climbers have made us proud. On May 14, Sirbaz Khan became the first Pakistani to ever summit Lhotse in Nepal. At 8,516m it’s the fourth highest mountain in the world. This 32-year-old budding mountaineer from Aliabad, Hunza in …
Dr Reshma Perveen-Mosofir Today I woke up to photographs on my newsfeed on social media showing women sitting in a ground with flour bags distributed on behalf of Saudi King Abdullah under Ramazan Package to the people of Hunza and Ghizer, prompting an uproar on social media raising many questions. Although, for people outside Gilgit-Baltistan and across Muslim world, this …
In Gilgit-Baltistan, exists a remarkable oasis with high literacy rates and gender equality. By Sam Dalrymple In the disputed Karakoram mountains, the isolated Hunza valley feels cut off from the fractious politics surrounding it. As one approaches 8,200 feet, pine forests and orchards envelop villages that glint orange with apricots drying on their rooftops. The blue and mustard shuttlecock burqas, …
By Haider Ali The electricity crisis in Gilgit-Baltistan’s major cities is getting a worse crippling civic, commercial and social life. Frequent protests by the residents and political activists in GB and other cities of Pakistan have fallen on deaf ears and the power department officials seem unmoved of the woes of the people, especially the students and patients. Whenever there …
Mayors of 17 world cities to participate in Dushanbe Navruz festival; over 10,000 people to participate in Nurek show Herald Report Preparations are in full swing across Asia, Middle East and Balkans to celebrate Navruz which heralds the arrival of spring and the first day of the new year of Persian calendar. Festivities have already kicked off in Hunza, Ghizer, …
Shisper Glacier surge in western Karakoram range creates fear among people of Hunza Sitara Parveen As the people of Hunza are reeling from the 2010 Attabad disaster, another potential disaster is looming large in the valley. This time at Hassanabad Nullah, about 22km of Attabad. Reports in mainstream and social media about the surging of Shisper Glacier in the western …
Do we want recognition or should we focus on ending our growing social marginalization and economic inequality? Sultan Abbas Outsiders perceive Hunzukutz (people of Hunza) as a closely-knit community, rarely mingling with others, mostly self-absorbed and largely boasting of their marginal achievements. This self-delusional culture has allowed the evolution of an internal competition on flimsy and superficial pretexts. We appear …
How parents, teachers are failing their own; Society and government need to respond to red flags to prevent young from taking their own lives Memona Abbas Suicide is as complicated a phenomenon as human nature. Owing to its complex nature, it is difficult to identify if an individual is contemplating to take extreme step of ending her or his life. …
AFP This thoroughfare is the only one connecting the 2,400 residents of the village of Shimshal to the outside world. The jeep bumps along a sloppy mud road carved between the country’s mountainous north, its tyres running with breath-taking precision along the very edge, where nothing but air lies between them and the snake-like river winding hundreds of feet below. …
