More than ‘ethnic’ cousines-I
Naba Basar discovers the secrets of healthy, organic and innovative mountain cuisine from Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. She shares her experiences
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Karakoram Ranges
Book: Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh
British colonial officer John Biddulph’s book is considered as one of the pioneering works in English that provided an insight to
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Shisper GLOF damages KKH, Hunza’s Hassanabad village
14 families shifted to safer places, all kinds of vehicular traffic restricted on KKH, administration, disaster management officials put on
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Mother Mountain
M Ajmal K Masood While travelling to the north, most of the youth make their travelling statuses
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Adventure tourism hit hard by Covid-19
Globally over 75m jobs are at risk in tour and hospitality sectors, 48.7m in Asia-Pacific and 75,000 in Pakistan High
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Global tourist arrivals could fall by 80pc: reports
The pandemic causes a 22% decline in tourist arrivals in Q1, or $80bn loss, says UNWTO reports Herald Report
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Where did the name K2 come from?
In 1856, the Maharaja Gulab Singh ruled the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir, with the blessing of the British.
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Covid-19 could increase gender inequalities in HKH
There is a need to focus responses on women in Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) regions, write Chanda Gurung Goodrich and Kosar
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There’s still hope for Karakoram climbing in 2020
News Desk As some countries start to see light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel and authorities struggle to
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Safeguarding public interest and role of bureaucracy
By Mesum Qasmi Bureaucracy has three major roles to play: maintain social order, implement laws and policies framed by
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Artwork depicting Hopar valley’s biodiversity, life on auction
Painting ‘Maintain the biodiversity of magnificent Hopar Valley’ by Tahir Bilal Umii. Credit: Gallry6 Gallery6 takes initiative to provide relief
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Tectonic effect of COVID-19 on tourism, hospitality sectors
Herald Report The worldwide spread of coronavirus that has devastated the global economy has also hit hard the tourism
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1931: The Silk Road meets the auto age
From the National Geographic archives, a look back at the Citroën-Haardt Trans-Asiatic Expedition. By BILL JONES GEORGES-MARIE HAARDT was
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A glacial surge in Hunza
by Peter Deneen. Less than one percent of the world’s glaciers are characterized as “surge-type” glaciers. The Karakoram in High
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Drone tech makes communities resilient to natural disasters
File photo of the confluence of Khurdopin and Yokshin Glacier and blockade of Verjherav glacio-fluvial stream. Credit: MIMCP HAH Report
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