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November 29, 2018December 30, 2018 thehighasia

GB status: Provisional province mantra — facts and fallacies

By Anayat Baig A new mantra of “provisional constitutional provincial status for Gilgit-Baltistan is being floated by the ‘Naya Pakistan‘

November 16, 2018December 30, 2018 thehighasia

Govt forms committee on GB reforms

HAH Report Islamabad The government has formed a 10-member committee to examine the constitutional, governance and administrative reforms for Gilgit-Baltistan.

October 29, 2018March 5, 2021 thehighasia

Of ‘ghairat’ and culture in Gilgit-Baltistan

Zaighum Abbas Social media outburst over a video clip of few girls dancing on folk songs in a TV’s morning

October 9, 2018 thehighasia

Colonial historiography and Gilgit-Baltistan

“The critical understanding about books written by British Colonial officers about GB could be premised on the fact that these works were mostly written for strategic purposes by those who served the power; the unquestioned acceptance of these works and their premium referential status needs to be challenged.”

October 9, 2018 thehighasia

Premier Khan assures CM Hafeez of continued support in GB development

PM directs the planning ministry to ensure availability of funds for GB projects, wheat subsidy; appreciates PML-N govt’s performance in GB; calls for better coordination, CM apprises Khan of GB apprehensions, concerns.

October 8, 2018February 20, 2020 thehighasia

Poverty of aid: Academics question US, Pakistan’s elites’ development model

The American model for development after World War-II was utterly incongruent with the social, economic, political and institutional ground realities in Pakistan …For this very reason, American and Pakistan’s ruling elites’ solution of throwing money for the alleviation of poverty did not have much success,” Professor Nipa Banerjee, a senior fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences at the School of International Development and Global Studies at Ottawa University, Canada.