Editorial: seven decades of disenfranchisement
More than 73 years since its independence, Gilgit-Baltistan remains subject to barely disguised colonial rule to await genuine enfranchisement. While
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Politics
Hunza, Nager: forgotten for accession to Pakistan
By Ajmal Masood The territory of Gilgit-Baltistan until the seventies had been comprised of clusters of autonomous princely states including
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Free Baba Jan slogan echoes across GB, Pakistan
By Amir Roshan A massive protest joined by mourners on the occasion of Chehlum of the martyrs of Karbala at
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Hunza is waking up!
Rizwan K. Qalandar Baba Jan’s father (R) Bahadur Jan and counsel Ehsan Ali Advocate at the sit-in at Aliabad Hunza.
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News Desk AWP deputy secretary Ismat Shahjehan, Usman Gujjar, Sher Rehman, and Sayed Alam offer condolences to Shahab Khattak on
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Major parties in a fix over poll boycott demand
Family members, AWPGB call for polls boycott in GBLA-6 if Baba Jan and 11 other prisoners were not released High
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End sexual violence as a war tactic: Nobel laureate
High Asia Herald Report Pakistan ranks the sixth most dangerous country in the world for women, with an alarming rise
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A case for participatory governance in G-B
By Ghulam Amin Beg The old Indian narrative on Jammu and Kashmir of a democratic dispensation, constitutionally guaranteed local autonomy
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Elections in Gilgit-Baltistan on Nov 15
General elections for the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) will be held on November 15, according to a summary moved by the government and approved by President Arif Alvi. The notification comes amid a plethora of rumours in power corridors on the constitutional status of the disputed region triggering a debate in mainstream and social media.
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Dream gone sour
by Dr Asim Sajjad MANY regions and peoples in Pakistan are suffering the wrath of what is now an annual
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State sovereignty and international law
by Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed Contemporary states are territorial entities whom international law invests with sovereign rights over their recognized territory
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‘Inequality destroying economies, societies’
Covid-19 has exposed the myth of the neoliberal free-market economic model Herald Report The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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Resisting power structures that keep colonialism alive
We must look at the roots of capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and anti-Blackness to leave settler colonialism in the past. by LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE
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How capitalism drives cancel culture
Beware of splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. by Helen Lewis Tumbrels are rattling through the streets
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As US moves to exit Afghanistan, rivals prepare to swoop in
News Desk The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was backed by most countries in the region, who shared the
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