Polish climbers team terminate expedition even before reaching the base camp   Ali Qurban Mughani   PASSU: The Polish climbers have called off their winter expedition to summit Batura 1 through the challenging route in the westernmost sub-range of the Karakoram Range in Gojal, Hunza District. The eight-member team, led by noted climber Rafael Fronia, and comprised of 22 local …

High Asia Herald Report LAHORE: A protest was held at Lahore Press Club on Sunday (19 Jan 2020) to demand the release of 14 political prisoners of Gilgit-Baltistan, sentenced to life imprisonment in the Hunza Riots Case of 2011.  The protest will be held every two weeks. The protest was organised by students and youth activists from GB on the …

Death toll surges to 110 in recent devastating snow and weather-related incidents

Singers, musicians from GB, Sindh spellbind audience at a mystical musical concert at PNCA   By Shafqat Aziz ISLAMABAD: An event featuring speeches and mystical music was held in the federal capital on Saturday to remember Allama Naseeruddin Naseer Hunzai, one of the leading poets of Burushaski language. Singers and musicians presented distinctive flavours of music from Gilgit-Baltistan and Sindh and …

Shisper glacier melt threatens Pakistan's future

They demand publishing judicial inquiry report of Aug 11, 2011 tragedy, provision of facilities to prisoners in jail, the arrest of the police officer involved in the killing of two persons

MADRID: A handful of major states resisted pressure on Sunday to ramp up efforts to combat global warming as a U.N. climate summit ground to a close, angering smaller countries and a growing protest movement that is pushing for emergency action. The COP25 talks in Madrid were viewed as a test of governments’ collective will to heed the advice of …

The new AC has ambitious plans to clean the largest tehsil of the Hunza District from pollution and substandard food items By Asif Sakhi GOJAL: In an unprecedented move, the administration of Gojal Sub-Division has taken swift action against the shop owners for selling unhygienic and spurious consumer items in the region. The locals have welcomed the action terming it …

Zeeshan Ali Ahmed shows a novel way of community service by rebuilding old hut at Batura valley an ultimate destination of tourists By Asif Sakhi PASSU: Life must have some objectivity and dedicating your time as a community service, could be one of the best objectives in life, Zeeshan Ali Ahmed, a young architect who is rebuilding a historic hut …

  By Kamran Karim  The photographic journey offers a space for observers to create their own world of imagination and fascination. We always tend to subsume or embrace new ideas and intuition to come up with new marvels. Anticipation is a part of the processing vision of abstract. It is not just a visible world; encircling signs and dotes with …