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State Sovereignty Within Borders and in the External Sphere

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September 4, 2020
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by Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed Contemporary states are territorial entities whom international law invests with sovereign right over their recognized territory within well-defined and demarcated borders. International law outlaws the violation of the territorial integrity of a state. The state enjoys the exclusive prerogative to exercise the monopoly of power over its territories and population. It means the right of states …

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Book: Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh

By thehighasia
June 18, 2020
in :  Afghanistan, Archives, Astore, Baltistan Division, Britain, Central Asia, Chitral, Darel, Features, Ghizer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia Region, Hindu Kush Ranges, History, India, Karakoram Ranges, Kashmir, Latest, Lifestyle, Literature, Nagar, Pakistan, Pamir Ranges, People, Slider, Society, Tangir, World, Xinjiang
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British colonial officer John Biddulph’s book is considered as one of the pioneering works in English that provided an insight to the secluded societies, lifestyles, languages,  customs, marriages, festivals, ruling families and general characteristics of the many tribes that inhabited the Hindu Kush region Reviewed by Basharat Wakhani Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh written by British colonial officer John Biddulph is considered as one of the …

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Chinese team summit Mount Everest during pandemic

By thehighasia
May 27, 2020
in :  China, Climate Change, Features, High Asia Region, India, Latest, Mountaineering, Pandemic, Revolution, Science & Technology, Slider, Technology, World
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The team is there to re-measure the height of Everest, which is on the two countries’ border A team of Chinese surveyors have scaled Mount Everest, becoming the only climbers to summit the world’s highest peak during the coronavirus pandemic. Chinese media report the team is there to re-measure the height of Everest, which is on the two countries’ border. …

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Google celebrates Manto’s birthday with a doodle

By thehighasia
May 11, 2020
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There was an uncanny similarity between the lives of Pushkin and Manto, writes Raza Naeem. Both were largely unrecognised in their own lifetimes, despite believing unapologetically in their own greatness, achieving immortality only after death   Herald Report On May 11, Google celebrated the 108th birthday of renowned short story writer Saadat Hasan Manto with a doodle. Saadat Hasan Manto was …

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Love in the time of corona: time to build South Asian cooperation

By thehighasia
May 9, 2020
in :  China, Diplomacy, Economy, Education, Energy, Health, India, Kashmir, Latest, Latest News, Opinion, Pakistan, Pandemic, People, Politics, Slider, Society, South Asia, World
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“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky …

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Where did the name K2 come from?

By thehighasia
May 4, 2020
in :  Baltistan Division, China, Features, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia Region, History, India, Karakoram Ranges, Latest, Latest News, Mountaineering, Slider, South Asia, World
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In 1856, the Maharaja Gulab Singh ruled the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir, with the blessing of the British. Lieutenant Thomas George Montgomerie, the commissioner of the Great British Trigonometric Survey of India, was trying to ascertain the heights of the peaks in northwestern Kashmir, but he couldn’t actually get close to ones he wanted to measure: He was …

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Irrfan Khan: a powerhouse talent gone too soon

By thehighasia
April 29, 2020
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He was one of Indian cinema’s finest actors and among its most successful exports to Hollywood. He had only just begun, writes Nandini Ramnath.   News Desk Irfan Khan (1967-2020), one of the acclaimed and finest actors of Indian cinema died in Mumbai on Wednesday. He was 53. A veteran of nearly 80 films, Irrfan almost gave up acting in his …

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‘Are we animals?’: migrants bear brunt of lockdown

By thehighasia
April 28, 2020
in :  Conflict, Disaster, Economy, Features, Governance, Health, High Asia Region, Himalayas, Human Rights, India, Latest, Latest News, Lockdown, Pakistan, Pandemic, People, Slider, Social Distancing, South Asia, Women
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Migrant workers in India, Pakistan and Nepal are crushed by poverty as earnings come to an abrupt halt in the lockdown forced by the Covid-19 pandemic, says a report compiled by Joydeep Gupta, Zofeen T Ebrahim, Ramesh Bhushal, published in thethirdpole.net online magazine. News Desk Across South Asia, the impact of the Covid-19 on livelihoods has been extreme. Despite being an outlier …

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How will COVID-19 affect global food supplies?

By thehighasia
April 9, 2020
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A Pakistani worker in Karachi sorts wheat grain on April 7 to make flour to keep people fed during the country’s lockdown amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: Shahzaib Akber (EPA-EFE) That strawberry you’re eating while self-isolating from the coronavirus? Chances are it came from a farm. Or it may have come from a large agricultural operation many, many kilometres …

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‘This is our version of the coronavirus. We are sick’, says Arundhati Roy

By thehighasia
March 1, 2020
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The award-winning author addressed a gathering at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Sunday   Beloved friends, comrades and my fellow writers, This place where we are gathered today is only a short bus ride away from where four days ago a fascist mob, fired up by speeches made by members of the Ruling Party, backed up and actively assisted by …

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Protests across India are part of a global fourth-wave feminist uprising

By thehighasia
February 29, 2020
in :  Features, Feminism, Human Rights, India, Iran, Latest, Opinion, Politics, Revolution, Slider, Women, World
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Hong Kong, Lebanon, Sudan, Brazil and Colombia are witnessing similar movements.   by Alka Kurian Women are among the strongest opponents of India’s Citizenship Amendment Act and the proposed National Register of Citizens, which threaten the citizenship rights of vulnerable groups like Muslims, poor women, oppressed castes and LGBTQ people. The Act, passed in December 2019, fast-tracks Indian citizenship for undocumented refugees from …

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Mrinal Sen’s films rejected political apathy

By thehighasia
February 27, 2020
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Abhrajyoti Chakraborty on a giant of the Bengali renaissance   When Rabindranath Tagore died in 1941, crowds gathered outside his ancestral mansion in Calcutta hoping to catch a last glimpse. As soon as the body was brought out of the house, everyone charged toward it at once. Hairs were plucked from his beard, wreaths tossed from buildings on the funeral …

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Turning the table: empires and development concepts-II

By thehighasia
February 20, 2020
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The world is facing a growing disillusionment with current economic and political order that was historically erected through great games and neoliberal economic agenda and development concepts by the colonial empires. These issues were deliberated upon by scholars, academics, development practitioners at a workshop held recently in Ottawa University, Canada. They debunked the neoliberal development concept and advocated pluralistic, universal …

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All charges against AWP, PTM activists dropped

By thehighasia
February 17, 2020
in :  Democracy, Governance, Human Rights, India, Islamabad, Latest, Latest News, National, Pakistan, Politics, Revolution, Slider
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IHC wraps up cases against AWP PTM activists, asks government to protect the right to freedom of expression    High Asia Herald Report   Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday disposed of a petition of 23 workers who were arrested by the police last month for protesting against the arrest of PTM chief Manzoor Pashteen when the court …

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The graveyard talks back –I

By thehighasia
February 12, 2020
in :  Conflict, Democracy, extremism, Governance, Human Rights, India, Kashmir, Latest, Latest News, Law, Literature, Opinion, Parliament, People, Politics, Religion, South Asia
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Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, and her party supporters attend a protest march against the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and a new citizenship law, in Kolkata, India, December 16, 2019. Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri Fiction in time of fake news. Below is the text of the 2020 Clark Lecture in English Literature instituted by Trinity College, Cambridge. We …

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