"Governments must urgently address the corrupting role of big money in political party financing and the undue influence it exerts on our political systems."- Delia Ferreira Rubio Chair Transparency International

Jalila Haider was stopped from traveling to the UK, released after 7 hours after a strong reaction from political and rights activists on social media High Asia Herald Report Leading human rights defender and President of Women Democratic Front (WDF) Balochistan chapter Jalila Haider was released on Monday after being detained by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for seven hours …

High Asia Herald Report LAHORE: A protest was held at Lahore Press Club on Sunday (19 Jan 2020) to demand the release of 14 political prisoners of Gilgit-Baltistan, sentenced to life imprisonment in the Hunza Riots Case of 2011.  The protest will be held every two weeks. The protest was organised by students and youth activists from GB on the …

In this last installment of the three-part article based on correspondence between Hassan Mirza and Professor Noam Chomsky, the internationally-acclaimed linguist and social scientist speaks about the British colonial genocidal role in South Asia and Africa, the future of South Asia, religion, the catastrophic impact of climate change, and the US-Europe imperialist-induced migration crisis.   Religion and spirituality Hassan Mirza …

Brand Sussex represents the biggest threat to the monarchy so far Marx predicted that capitalism would destroy every remnant of feudalism. It would tear asunder “the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘natural superiors’”, in the words of “The Communist Manifesto”. It would drown ecstasies of religious fervour and chivalric enthusiasm in the “icy water of egotistical calculation”. And …

The criticism of Western policy by the so-called free press within narrow bounds has subtle effect of imposing the hegemonic doctrine of imperialism, serves the western dominant intellectual culture and its institutions, says Prof Noam Chomsky

Herald Report   The US invasion of Iraq was aimed at setting up permanent military bases there and to benefit energy corporations and weapons industry, comments Professor Noam Chomsky, an internationally acclaimed American linguist in a conversation with Hassan Mirza, published in The Express Tribune Blogs section. The conversation is based on correspondence between the two over a period of …

Speakers at HRCP seminar decry regression of democratic values, violations of fundamental rights, propose a broad-based coalition based on minimum people's agenda 

High Asia offers a great prospect for building a safer world for billions of people and needs trans-boundary solutions engaging India, Pakistan, Afghanistan China, Nepal, and the Central Asian States by declaring the region an ecological state and its population as ecology citizens, writes Amir Hussain.  Five hundred years ago, in the days of big empires, one would look like a …

Scholars debunk neoliberal development concept; offer pluriversality and inclusive development concept   by Fayyaz Baqir   We are at a critical juncture at this moment in time facing a growing disillusionment with current economic and political order that has dominated the world for quite some time. Growing concerns about climate change, rising income inequality, polarization, populist nationalism, and unending military …