Karachi’s performing arts academy in crisis as students raise alarm
Karachi’s performing arts academy is in crisis as students raise an alarm
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Pakistan
Homegrown healing: respect nature, restore Gilgit-Baltistan
Gilgit-Baltistan has borne the brunt of torrential rains, cloudbursts, and glacial lake disasters claiming 41 lives and displacing hundreds of people and washing away crop lands, orchards, communication, electricity and water supply infrastructures in three divisions of Gilgit-Baltistan.
Read MoreResilient rebuilding for climate-smart mountain communities
by Fazal Saadi The sky tore open, and hell poured out in Gilgit-Baltistan’s Ghizer District. What followed was an avalanche
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A strategic framework for climate resilience in Gilgit-Baltistan
by Mishal Jahan This summer Gilgit-Baltistan experienced one of its harshest flood seasons in recent times. Accelerated glacial melt, compounded
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Gilgit-Baltistan: smoking, vaping pose a growing health emergency
by Sadia Gulzar The migration of young people from Gilgit-Baltistan to distant urban centres in pursuit of academic excellence and
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Book Review: War, Love, and the Unmade Picture
by Aftab Husain The novelette Jang Mein Muhabbat ki Tasveer Nahin Banti resists the very tradition of war literature it
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Taxation, TIR and the constitutional crisis in Gilgit-Baltistan
If the government intends to tax G-B like other provinces, it must also grant it equivalent political representation, legal clarity, and constitutional recognition.
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Ruin and radiance: rediscovering Sherani and Adam
Akhtar Sherani and Abdul Hameed Adam were poets whose verses shimmered with longing, whose biographies bore the same marks of indulgence and vulnerability that their couplets hinted at, and whose reputations rose to extraordinary heights only to recede in the collective memory of our language. They were, each in his way, emblems of an Urdu literary culture that treasured both aesthetic refinement and personal candour, and that was never entirely sure whether to admire them for their luminous art or to pity them for the shadows it cast over their private lives.
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Cardiovascular disease — a growing health crisis in Gilgit-Baltistan
By Sadia Gulzar Gilgit-Baltistan, recently recognised by CNN as one of the world’s most breathtaking tourist destinations, attracts thousands of
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Urban isolation — the silent tragedy of modern life
By Wazir Aftab Hussain In a deeply tragic and heartbreaking development, the decayed body of Pakistani model and actor Humaira
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Balochistan: a new turf for global powers’ resource capture
Abdul Ghaffar Bugti As the US-China rivalry escalates, Balochistan has emerged as a new battleground for the 21st-century ‘Great Game’. The natural
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Maternal mortality up as Dera Bugti healthcare system collapses
54+ deaths in 15 months spotlight government inaction, systemic failures in remote areas of Balochistan News desk DERA BUGTI: A
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Does G-B Land Reforms Act Have Constitutional Legitimacy?
Beyond the bill’s contentious provisions lies a more fundamental question: Does the GBA even possess the constitutional authority to repeal the Nautor Rule or legislate on such a critical issue?
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Rising artists reflect on self, society, and ecology
By F. Ali Islamabad: A dynamic group exhibition that opened at Gallery 6 on May 24 captures the evolving voice
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A misguided call: Gilgit-Baltistan is not waiting for India
by Ghulam Amin Beg In his article titled “Freed from Pakistan’s Shackles: India’s Time to Bring Gilgit-Baltistan Home,” published on
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