Global tourist arrivals could fall by 80pc: reports
The pandemic causes a 22% decline in tourist arrivals in Q1, or $80bn loss, says UNWTO reports Herald Report
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Pakistan
Google celebrates Manto’s birthday with a doodle
There was an uncanny similarity between the lives of Pushkin and Manto, writes Raza Naeem. Both were largely unrecognised in their
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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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TMA officials in Chitral awaiting salaries for 3 months
By Gul Hammad Farooqi CHITRAL: As the fear of the people of Chitral rises due to the spike in coronavirus
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One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years: study
Scorching heat will envelop 185m people in Pakistan; human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder and sooner than previously believed,
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AWPGB donates PPEs to doctors in Gilgit-Baltistan
AWPGB arranged 200 PPEs through its #CoronaSolidarityCampaign for health workers serving in remote areas Bureau Report GILGIT: Awami Workers Party
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Pakistan’s fight against corona mars its drive to eradicate polio
Pakistan’s long battle to eradicate the crippling poliovirus has been thwarted by militant attacks, radical Islamic clerics, and anti-vaccination propaganda.
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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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Pakistan’s human rights record worrisome: HRCP
Covid-19 pandemic affecting human rights, weakest segments of society invisible and unheard, notes HRCP in its flagship report High Asia
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‘Are we animals?’: migrants bear brunt of lockdown
Migrant workers in India, Pakistan and Nepal are crushed by poverty as earnings come to an abrupt halt in the
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Pakistan’s younger women riding a digital wave in drive for better jobs
When Kainat Naz joined a women-friendly technology boot camp a year ago, she had no idea it would completely change
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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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Outrage on preacher’s misogynistic remarks against women
Political, social, human rights activists condemn Maulana Tariq Jameel for insulting 220m people, women and media High Asia Herald
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