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GB constitutional package: ‘move aims to legitimise colonial rule’

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March 10, 2022
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GB's constitutional package

Young academic cautions youth about neoliberal ‘development mantra Special Correspondent Professor Zaighum Abbas speaking on the proposed provisional provincial status for Gilgit-Baltistan at an interactive session with students of the GB Punjab University campus. Photo HAH LAHORE: Debate on the proposed constitutional setup for Gilgit-Baltistan reverberates in and outside the mountainous region. Youth and activists from GB in Pakistan and …

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Aurat March: LHC moved to uphold right to assembly

By thehighasia
March 7, 2022
in :  Feminism, Legal, New, Resistance
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News Desk Lahore: Aurat March Lahore organizers have filed a writ petition before the Lahore High Court (LHC), calling for women’s right to march on International Women’s Day (08 March) to be protected. For its part, the city administration did not reply to the Aurat March organizers’ intimation of the upcoming event. In fact, the Additional Deputy Commissioner for Lahore …

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Sedition case: IHC bars police from arresting Imaan, others

By Inayat Amir
March 5, 2022
in :  Human Rights, Islamabad, Legal, New
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By Inayat Amir Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court has restrained the capital police from arresting a human rights defender, a journalist, and Baloch students on sedition and criminal conspiracy charges. The court put on notice the secretaries of interior and human rights ministries, the capital’s chief commissioner, and top cop to appear before the court on Monday and justify the …

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Asma Shirazi serves Rs10m defamation notice on PTI’s Ali Nawaz Awan

By Inayat Amir
March 4, 2022
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Seeks unconditional apology, removal of defamatory comment from social media By Inayat Amir ISLAMABAD: Prominent journalist Asma Shirazi has served a defamation notice on Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf lawmaker Ali Nawaz Awan for making ‘false, malicious and defamatory comments’ about her on national television, it was learnt. In a message on the micro-blogging website Twitter, the Peter Mackler Award-winning journalist announced that …

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Manufacturing Zombies

By thehighasia
July 28, 2021
in :  Legal, Literature, New, Youth
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Waseem Altaf Writing textbooks for students who are in a formative stage is serious business. Errors and omissions on part of the writers due to lethargy, ignorance, or self-complacency are pardonable and can be corrected. However, when textbooks are written with the express aim of misguiding the pupils and indoctrinating adherence to the status quo, support for the regime in …

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FIR against women march organisers: AAM dismayed at a Peshawar court order

By thehighasia
March 27, 2021
in :  extremism, Latest, Legal, Pakistan, Politics, Religion, Slider, Women
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Press Release Islamabad: The organisers of the Aurat Azadi March (women liberation march) Islamabad chapter has expressed dismay at the order issued by a Peshawar session court. The sessions court judge on Friday directed the Peshawar Cantonment police to file an FIR under Section 22A of the CrPC against organisers and participants of ‘Aurat March’ held on 8th March 2021 …

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Dadhocha Dam: landowners protest forced eviction

By thehighasia
January 4, 2021
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Local people say they will not vacate their ancestral land without a settlement plan or resettlement by Punjab government; They demand increase in compensation rate for their land. Rawalpindi: Affected people of Dadhocha dam organised a public meeting and peaceful protest march here on Sunday against forced displacement without rehabilitation, seeking a substantial increase in compensation rate for their lands …

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NAB court accepts Salim Khan’s plea bargain offer in Rs51m scam

By thehighasia
December 9, 2020
in :  Economy, Gilgit-Baltistan, Governance, High Asia Region, Hunza, Judiciary, Latest, Legal, Pakistan, People, Politics, Slider
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High Asia Report GILGIT:  An accountability court on Tuesday accepted the application of Shah Salim Khan, a former member of Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly for bargain to pay Rs51 million he had embezzled in Sost Dry Port scam. Justice Khurshid Ahmed of the Accountability Court Gilgit approved the plea bargain on the recommendation of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) regional office. The …

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Four more political prisoners of Hunza freed

By thehighasia
November 20, 2020
in :  Crime, Disaster, Gilgit-Baltistan, Gojal, Governance, Human Rights, Hunza, Judiciary, Law, Legal, Pakistan
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GILGIT: Four more prisoners were released from Damas jail in Ghizer District on Friday. According to a notification issued by the Home Department of Gilgit-Baltistan, the authorities have issued release order of Aleemuallah Khan, Musa Khan, Irfan Ali and Shukrullah Baig. Notification of the Provincial Government/Home department for the release of the four prisoners The interim government/home department with the …

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AWP leaders express solidarity with Shahab Khattak, family

By thehighasia
October 7, 2020
in :  Human Rights, Latest, Legal, Politics, Resistance, Revolution, Socialism, Society, Terrorism
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Leaders of AWP, other parties have condemned the brutal murder of Professor Naeemuddin Khattak, a progressive academic in broad daylight in Peshawar and expressed solidarity with his family. AWP deputy secretary Ismat Shahjehan, Usman Gujjar, Sher Rehman, Sayed Alam offer condolences to Shahab Khattak on the tragic death of his elder brother Prof Naeemuddin Khattak. The noted teacher was shot …

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New techs must serve, not hinder, right to peaceful protest: Bachelet

By thehighasia
June 29, 2020
in :  Conflict, Governance, Human Rights, Latest, Legal, Science & Technology, Slider, Society, Technology, US, World
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News Desk The internet and new digital tools are being manipulated as never before to infringe on people’s right to free assembly, the UN’s top rights official says in a call for a moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology during peaceful demonstrations. GENEVA: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called on states and businesses to …

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CJP takes notice of video clip threatening Justice Isa

By thehighasia
June 25, 2020
in :  Crime, Democracy, extremism, Latest, Latest News, Law, Legal, Pakistan, Slider, Terrorism
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Pakistan's top judge takes notice of a video clip containing derogatory, and scandalous language against Justice Qazi Faez Isa and politicians. In the viral video, a man identified as Agha Iftikharuddin Mirza can be seen giving threats to the Supreme Court judge.

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Civil society condemns Farogh Nasim’s misogynist remarks

By thehighasia
June 14, 2020
in :  Human Rights, Judiciary, Latest, Legal, Pakistan, People, Slider, Women
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Herald Report Activists of women’s and human rights organisations have condemned misogynist, sexist and provocative rants of government’s top lawyer and sought an unconditional apology from him. In a joint statement, activists of women’s rights, literary, cultural, youth, and legal groups, academia, have expressed outraged and condemned the highly derogatory, inflammatory, sexist, and misogynist remarks made the other day by …

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NAB arrests proclaimed offender in Nagar

By thehighasia
May 4, 2020
in :  Crime, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia Region, Judiciary, Latest, Legal, Nagar, Slider
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Anwar Hussain was facing a corruption reference in an accountability court      Herald Correspondent GILGIT: Officials of the anti-graft watchdog have arrested a court absconder in Gilgit-Baltistan on charges of corruption. According to a press statement issued by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), its officials have arrested Anwar Hussain from Nilt, Nagar. He was presented before a judge of …

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GCU admin condemned for terminating a teacher from GB

By thehighasia
March 13, 2020
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Zaigum Abbas was terminated without prior notice for cultivating critical thinking among the students High Asia Herald Report   Lahore: The termination of a young academic of the Government College University (GCU) Lahore has prompted a strong reaction from academia, students and activists on social media. The services of Zaighum Abbas, who had been teaching political science at one of …

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