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Kamla and Rubina: the fearless feminists

By thehighasia
October 5, 2021
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Kamla and Rubina were not the ones to sit quietly when at least one billion women around the world suffer violence every year, hence the campaign One Billion Rising. They wanted our women to say ‘enough is enough and rise with one voice against gender-based crimes,

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Minimalist artist’s work depicts her traumas, search for peace

By thehighasia
October 4, 2021
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by Farman Ali Islamabad: An exciting exhibition of the latest paintings by a minimalist artist opened on Saturday at 8B2, a new gallery that has opened at Chak Shahzad, Islamabad, recently. The exhibition, titled ‘La Perfection Imparfaite,’ (The Imperfect Perfection) showcases a new body of the Xandria Noir’s work during and post-pandemic lockdown in 2020 and 2021. The paintings in …

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May Day manifesto

By thehighasia
April 30, 2021
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Covid-19 has shown how much we miss a powerful workers movement.

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Ban on tourism during Eid holidays

By thehighasia
April 27, 2021
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by Gul Nayab Kaiser Islamabad, April 27: The government has further tightened restriction on travel and tourism and called for compliance with SOPs during religious gatherings and Eid Holidays. A complete ban has been imposed on tourism, inter-provincial and intra-city transport from May 8 to 16 including Eid holidays, a notification issued by the interior ministry said on Tuesday. The …

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How to bridge urban-rural digital divide

By thehighasia
April 27, 2021
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The uneven development and flawed policies in Pakistan have widened the social and digital inequalities between the urban and rural areas. The current Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the inequalities affecting the poor and the low-paid jobs the most.

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Corona pandemic hits hard Tajikstan’s tourism sector

By thehighasia
February 13, 2021
in :  Central Asia, High Asia Region, Latest, Pamir Ranges, Pandemic, Slider, Tourism, World
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Only 0.35m tourists visited the Central Asian country last year as compared to 1.25m in the previous year, says an official News Desk Coronavirus pandemic hit the global tourism sector hard in 2020, proving to be the worst year in tourism history with 1 billion fewer international arrivals, says the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNETO). The direct contribution of …

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Women disconnected

By thehighasia
January 16, 2021
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News Desk Islamabad: Majority of women face restrictions from their families when using the internet, a new study finds. Six out of 10 women internet users face some kind of restrictions from their families, finds the survey titled “Women Disconnected: Feminist Case Studies on the Gender Digital Divide Amidst COVID-19”, conducted by Media Matters for Democracy (MMfD). The study examines …

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Unwarranted abductions in UAE: Shia families fall into a further despair

By thehighasia
December 25, 2020
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by Asad Raza Gokal Since September 2020, when the UAE struck with Israel a deal on normalizing relations, alarm bells began to ring louder for the Pakistani Shia diaspora residing in the country. In the United Arab Emirate (UAE), members of the Shia families, a religious minority, are mostly employed in professions that pay them enough to cater the needs …

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21 journalists murdered this year, finds report

By thehighasia
December 23, 2020
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Reprisal murders targeting media persons doubled in 2020, finds CJP; Ruhollah Zam, an Iranian journalist, was hanged on December 12 after conviction by the regime News Desk A media freedom watchdog has reported alarming increase in murder cases of journalists worldwide for their professional work during the outgoing year. At least 30 journalists were slain while on duty this year, …

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Spike in corona cases. Who is responsible?

By thehighasia
December 4, 2020
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By Neelum Wali The word COVID-19 stands for coronavirus disease. Formerly, this disease was referred to as “2019 novel coronavirus” or “2019-nCoV”. COVID-19 is linked to the family of viruses as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Different viruses are given their names according to their genetic structure. The virus was named as SARS-CoV-2 on February 11, 2020, due to its genetic …

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Editorial: GB’s independence and seven decades of disenfranchisement

By thehighasia
November 1, 2020
in :  Climate Change, Conflict, Gilgit-Baltistan, Governance, High Asia Region, Human Rights, Latest, Opinion, Pakistan, Pandemic, People, Politics, Slider
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More than 73 years since its independence, Gilgit-Baltistan remains subject to barely disguised colonial rule to await genuine enfranchisement. While many of Pakistan’s ethnic peripheries harbour deep grievances against the authoritarian and extractive logics of the country’s statecraft, GB is arguably the only region that remains explicitly deprived of even basic democratic, constitutional and human rights. It was only in …

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Rural response to COVID-19

By thehighasia
October 18, 2020
in :  Chitral, Economy, Gilgit-Baltistan, Health, High Asia Region, Latest, Lockdown, New, Opinion, Pakistan, Pandemic, Slider, Society
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Mushtaq Ahmad There is a long history of global pandemic and epidemics, but there is also evidence that all these have been challenged by man. Consequently, there have been great losses of human lives coupled with social and economic vicissitudes as well. At the same time, every major crisis brings opportunities to rethink our systems and make them stronger to future …

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Rebuilding tourism in a safe, equitable & climate-friendly way

By thehighasia
September 28, 2020
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Global community unites to celebrate “tourism and rural development” High Asia Herald Report Summer holidays used to be the peak season in Gilgit-Baltistan. file photo The 2020 edition of World Tourism Day, with the theme of “Tourism and Rural Development”, celebrates the unique role that tourism plays in providing opportunities outside of big cities and preserving cultural and natural heritage all …

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Understanding the spread of Covid-19 in Gilgit-Baltistan

By thehighasia
September 12, 2020
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Fifth Province

by Dr Aziz Baig The Coronavirus, perhaps the deadliest in the last century that surfaced in Wuhan city of China in November 2019, has now spread to about 188 countries of the world affecting over 27 million people and claiming over 0.8 million lives. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared it pandemic on March 11, 2020. In Pakistan, the first two cases of COVID-19 …

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Kamal paints fading memories, heritages, and city life of Lahore

By thehighasia
September 4, 2020
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By Farman Ali  Islamabad: A self-taught artist has brilliantly portrayed after COVID19 ethos, in general, and fading cultural heritage as well as city life of Lahore, in particular. The online exhibition of the artworks, titled ’City Dwellers’, by Kamal Hyat, a development professional and free-spirited artist, is a succinct comment on the insensitivity of the society towards cultural heritage now …

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Unprecedented flash floods, water scarcity, dying glaciers, abruptly changing weather patterns, rising cases of rare diseases, and climate-change-induced loss of natural habitat are some of the discernible symptoms that are already on display in the South Asian country.

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