A youth-led development agenda for Gilgit-Baltistan
Riaz Akbar spells out a comprehensive youth-led development roadmap for Gilgit-Baltistan, outlining four areas that can kick-start GB’s economy and increase the whole pie of the budget.
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Opinion
Domestic violence: Let’s talk about it!
Domestic violence, rape, and murder have been around in Gilgit-Baltistan for so long, but these subjects are considered taboos in our society. People till the recent past wouldn’t dare to talk about these subjects openly. We tend to keep them under the carpet to save the so-called ‘honour’ of the family, region, or religion.
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Palestinian issue: It’s time for Israelis and Palestinians to rethink
The only solutions to the Palestinian issue, is to establish a secular democratic state where Muslims, Jews and Christians co-exist with harmony as equal citizens. Only this single state narrative can serve as a guarantee to shun any move to divide the society on a religious, ethnic, or racial basis.
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‘Hosnia had dreams’: grief in Kabul as girls’ school targeted
Hazara community in mourning but defiant after more than 60 people killed in school bomb blasts by Stefanie Glinski in
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The curious case of GB’s census data
By Noor Akbar A month ago, I was making a PowerPoint presentation on the latest population statistics of Pakistan and
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Politics of the Kyrgyz mining sector
The mining sector of the Kyrgyz Republic has been attracting a lot of diverse investments even despite frequent conflicts and
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May Day manifesto
Covid-19 has shown how much we miss a powerful workers movement.
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Meet Ghizer’s Iqrarul Hassan
By Sher Zaman It was a chilly morning of March 2021 at the busy Gahkuch Bazaar. The bazaar here opens
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Remembering Mashal means resisting politics of hate
by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar When Mashal Khan was brutally lynched four years ago, the Tehrik-e-Labbaik-Pakistan (TLP) was still a relatively
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Conflict, peace and fragility: fault lines in G-B
By Ghulam Amin Beg For some years we thought that we have learned our lessons and embraced peace after decades
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Youth engagement key to effective development
YCD project is an initiative under the Programme for Poverty Reduction (PPR) of PPAF which aimed to improve the socio-economic landscape of the most underdeveloped rural areas of Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) including the ex-FATA region now part of KP
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The unquestioned traditions
By Rozina Ahmed Marriage is a social contract between an adult man and woman with their free will to live
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‘Look, I did it without you’
I lost my brother but not the courage we shared, says the award-winning documentary ‘Unsung Heroes’ Pakistan Shero fame climber
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Curriculum: position-making and enactment
By: Reshma P. Musofer Educational reforms and a ‘single-national curriculum’ have lately become a widely debated topic in Pakistan and
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Opinion: of a lesser God
By Asim Sajjad Akhtar Balochistan bleeds again. Yet another episode of gruesome brutality against Hazaras — coal miners no less
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