GBLA polls 2020
by Sajjad Ahmad GILGIT-BALTISTAN will hold elections on Aug 18, 2020, for the Legislative Assembly’s 24 constituencies. The government’s five-year
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Opinion
Pakistan’s great digital divide
A new reliance on virtual life in the COVID-19 era has laid bare the lack of internet access for much
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Will border disputes in Himalayas affect climate research?
Scientists hope recent border clashes and the pandemic will not derail the limited progress made on research cooperation over the
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Parenting styles and child rearing
By Karim Muhammad Khan Parents’ role is significant in shaping, grooming and nurturing their children’s physical, intellectual, social, psychological,
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Love in the time of corona: time to build South Asian cooperation
“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different.
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Killing the virus and saving the economy
By S. Akbar Zaidi The trade-off being presented of saving lives through a lockdown to eliminate the coronavirus and killing the
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Contextualizing rural development
In this essay, Amir Hussain critiques the so-called Green Revolution, its myths of rural transformation in the Global South with
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Rethinking education and social justice in Gilgit-Baltistan
While Covid-19 has busted the myth of success and efficiency of the market economy and governance with the failing façade
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Covid-19 and misinformation
“O you who believe! if a person of bad characters brings you any news, verify it, lest you should harm
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What role developed states can play in pandemic
By Wajidul Islam COVID-19 in a single person means that the whole human species is at risk. Statistics
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Prayers in mosques while corona outbreak
By Mesum Qasmi Insistence on offering prayers in mosques during the pandemic, knowing you can contract a virus and spread
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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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The obliterate villainous guest of 2020
The social solidarity across the globe is the main measure to stop the episode of COVID-19 By Zahra Arshad Before
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Mashal Khan: Lighting a flame in our hearts by losing his life
by Aurangzaib Khan https://twitter.com/i/status/1249731834294030339 Days before Mashal Khan’s death, his mother Syeda Bibi had a nightmare. She saw him
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Central Asian regimes and power transit models
Modern Central Asian regimes remain autocratic, but are they to become hereditary quasi monarchies in the near future? At
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