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Women’s right to property and inheritance in Hunza

By thehighasia
December 15, 2022
in :  Ecology, Feminism, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia Region, Human Rights, Legal, Opinion, Slider, Society
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women's right to inheritance in Hunza

by Rozina Ahmed Debate over women’s right to property and inheritance in Pakistan, in general, and in Gilgit-Baltistan, in particular, is commonplace in mainstream media, social media, and political circles. Although women’s right to property and inheritance is mandated by Islamic Shariah as well as the Constitution of Pakistan, it is rarely honored in practice. Even in regions where the …

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Torching girls’ school and emerging situation in GB

By thehighasia
November 11, 2022
in :  Darel, Education, extremism, Gilgit-Baltistan, Latest, Opinion
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Torching school

By Safiullah Baig Diamer District is once again in the limelight for not a good reason but for a despicable act of burning a girl’s school in Darel by some extremist elements. Some mainstream and social media activists as usual were quick enough to point towards Diamer as bastion of extremism in Gilgit-Baltistan. This has made things murkier and will …

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Imran’s dark web man delivered ultimatum: Sethi

By thehighasia
October 3, 2022
in :  Governance, Media, News, Opinion, Pakistan, Politics
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The senior journalist and TV commentator said the PML-N could have governor’s rule imposed in Punjab. He said this is what he foresaw coming, sooner or later The Friday Times (TFT) editor Najam Sethi said on Friday that no more ‘audio leaks’ on the governing coalition will follow since Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan’s man on the dark web …

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Scrutinising US Indo-Pacific Strategy

By thehighasia
September 11, 2022
in :  China, Conflict, New, Opinion, Politics, US
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Indo-Pacific Security Dialogue

By Hamdan Ahmed After widening Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD) strategic agenda, particularly focusing on limiting China in the Asian-Pacific region, the United States announced the Indo-Pacific Strategy in February 2022. The strategy has set up some ambiguous yet interesting objectives for the Indo-Pacific region, which was a battleground for the US-China economic and strategic competition lately and has now become …

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Man-made catastrophe

By thehighasia
August 26, 2022
in :  Biodiversity, Climate Change, Development, Disaster, Ecology, Gilgit-Baltistan, Governance, High Asia Region, Himalayas, Hindu Kush Ranges, Karakoram Ranges, Opinion, Pakistan, Slider
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Disaster

The scale, scope and spread of the 2022 floods have surpassed the super floods of 2010. The monsoon rains have created unprecedented havoc in all regions of the country stretching from Gilgit-Baltistan and KP to Sindh, southern Punjab and Balochistan.

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Pakistan at 75 and Gilgit-Baltistan’s future

By thehighasia
August 14, 2022
in :  Development, Energy, Environment, Gilgit-Baltistan, Governance, Health, High Asia Region, History, Human Rights, Islamabad, Opinion, Pakistan, Tourism
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G-B Masp

By Ziauddin Ali Shah As Pakistan commemorates the 75th Independence Day, it is important to reflect upon the achievements, failures, developments and issues in Gilgit-Baltistan from different perspectives and see how, as a nation, we have reached this adversity. The region, administered by Pakistan, is home to the three largest mountain ranges and massif of snow-clad lofty peaks, scenic pastures, …

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Anti-imperialism and night where all cows are black

By thehighasia
August 8, 2022
in :  Democracy, Nationalism, Opinion, Pakistan, Politics
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Anti-Imperialism

Imran Khan’s politics is a turbo-charged neoliberalism... a shallow ideological cocktail of religion, patriotism, and praetorianism.

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Venal ruling class

By thehighasia
August 8, 2022
in :  Democracy, Governance, Opinion, Politics, South Asia
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Imperialism

By Dr Aasim Sajjad Akhtar It is all so predictable. The raids on homes of opposition leaders and workers. Heavy-handed baton charges and tear-gas shelling. The same opposition workers who decried state repression then engaged in wanton destruction of public property — and burning trees for good measure! We have been here many times before. A few months ago, it …

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China’s BRI grapples with a mounting debt crisis

By thehighasia
August 3, 2022
in :  Central Asia, China, Economy, Kyrgyzstan, Opinion, Pakistan, South Asia, Trade and Commerce
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Like Sri Lanka, Kyrgyzstan also has a swelling state debt and took on billions worth of loans over the last decade from China’s Export-Import Bank for a series of infrastructure plans under the Belt and Road Initiative.

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Private charity: just another scam for 1% rich

By thehighasia
July 23, 2022
in :  Civil society, Economy, Money Laundering, Opinion, Philanthropy, Social work, Socialism, Society, US
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Charity

We were told that the generosity of the rich would make up for cuts to government services. But those at the top are increasingly using dubious “charitable” ventures as vehicles for profit and influence. Institute for Policy Studies' report Gilded Giving 2022: How Wealth Inequality Distorts Philanthropy and Imperils Democracy, charitable giving is more dominated than ever by those at the top of the income and wealth pyramid.

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The dangerous populist science of Harari

By thehighasia
July 11, 2022
in :  Conflict, History, Literature, Opinion, Philosophy, Science & Technology, Theory, World
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Science and History

The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker. But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors.

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Suicide: the never-ending pandemic in GBC

By thehighasia
June 12, 2022
in :  Ghizer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Health, Human Rights, Opinion, Pakistan, Pandemic, Society
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Suicide

By Rozina Parveen When the horrors of life outway the terrors of death a man commits suicide — Albert Camus Suicide cases are on the rise in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. According to media reports in Pakistan 20 people, mostly female, aged between 15 and 35 years, take their lives every day. According to studies and survey reports, there has been …

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Pakistan’s neoliberal state is a machine for plunder

By thehighasia
June 10, 2022
in :  Development, Ecology, Economy, Governance, Marxism, Opinion, Pakistan, Political Philosophy, Politics, Revolution
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Neoliberal state

Pakistani neoliberalism hasn’t rolled back state intervention in the economy. Building on a predatory tradition that dates back to British colonial rule, it has used state power to enforce the ruthless exploitation of Pakistan’s workers and natural resources.

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The pied piper syndrome

By thehighasia
May 11, 2022
in :  extremism, Opinion, Pakistan, Politics
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We are faced with an intolerant generation that is self-righteous, hates dissent and wants everyone to think one way – which is their way. In short, we are reaping the fruits of the seeds we had sown ourselves in our classrooms and society at large. Today it is the misogynist, fascist Imran Khan, tomorrow it can be a right-wing extremist force which will use the same herd to its own advantage and ruin the already religiously intolerant and anti-women society.

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Pakistani media’s existential crisis

By thehighasia
May 8, 2022
in :  Censorship, Human Rights, Media, Opinion, Pakistan, Slider
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Pakistan’s media has been grappling with an existential crisis in recent years, with critical areas going from bad to worse. This includes a staggering two-fifths of media jobs — 8,000 out of 20,000 — being wiped out, partly because of lifeline public sector advertising having shrunk by over half, and a squeezed media economy that is drying up even private sector advertising.

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Tracking 3 decades of dramatic glacial lake growth

In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using a 30-year satellite data record have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change. Courtest: NASA/National Geographic

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