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Tehran, Kabul open first rail link

By thehighasia
December 11, 2020
in :  Afghanistan, Economy, High Asia Region, Latest, Slider, South Asia
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The $75m-project will facilitate trade, travel between the two countries. The key infrastructure was started in 2007 with Iranian assistance. Iran and Afghanistan on Thursday inaugurated the first railway link between the two countries. Presidents of the two countries expressed hope it would enhance trade links across the region. The 140-kilometre (90-mile) line running from eastern Iran into western Afghanistan …

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Hunza Matters: Unmaking and Making

By thehighasia
December 2, 2020
in :  Britain, Central Asia, China, Chitral, Features, Gilgit-Baltistan, Gojal, High Asia Region, History, Hunza, Kashmir, Latest, New, Opinion, Pakistan, Pamir Ranges, People, Politics, Slider, Society, South Asia, World
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by Aziz Ali Dad Let me start this review of the book “Hunza Matters: Bordering and ordering between ancient and new Silk Roads” by indulging in subjectivity. In 2015, I was a Crossroads Asia fellow at Modern Oriental Institute in Berlin, Germany. As a part of socialization, we interacted with different researchers and members of academia. On one weekend my …

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Are we out of our minds?

By thehighasia
November 27, 2020
in :  Education, Features, Human Rights, Islamabad, Latest, National, Opinion, Pakistan, Politics, Resistance, Slider, Socialism, South Asia
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Raza Gillani Why have we spent the last four years, presumably the most crucial time of our lives, organising at various campuses across the country and its administered areas on issues pertaining to student life, gender, education, class, ethnicity, race, etc.? Why have we wasted our time in searching for those who share our principles, dreams, and resolve? Why have …

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State Sovereignty Within Borders and in the External Sphere

By thehighasia
September 4, 2020
in :  Features, History, India, Latest, Literature, Pakistan, Politics, Slider, South Asia
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by Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed Contemporary states are territorial entities whom international law invests with sovereign right over their recognized territory within well-defined and demarcated borders. International law outlaws the violation of the territorial integrity of a state. The state enjoys the exclusive prerogative to exercise the monopoly of power over its territories and population. It means the right of states …

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Climate change: The vulnerability of farmers and state policies

By thehighasia
May 23, 2020
in :  China, Climate Change, Economy, Environment, Governance, High Asia Region, Latest, Lifestyle, Pakistan, Science &Technology, Slider, Socialism, Society, South Asia, Technology
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A comparative study of farming sectors of China and Pakistan   By Samiullah Najeeb   Agriculture is the most sensitive sector to climate change. The impacts of climate change and abnormal events such as rise in temperatures, extreme weather, drought, levels of carbon dioxide and sea result in a decrease in the quantity and the quality of food supplies. Climate …

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Global tourist arrivals could fall by 80pc: reports

By thehighasia
May 11, 2020
in :  Baltistan Division, Central Asia, Economy, Europe, Features, Ghizer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Health, High Asia Region, Himalayas, Hindu Kush Ranges, Karakoram Ranges, Latest, Lockdown, Mountaineering, Nepal, Pakistan, Pandemic, Sanitaization, Slider, South Asia, Sports, Tourism, World
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The pandemic causes a 22% decline in tourist arrivals in Q1, or $80bn loss, says UNWTO reports   Herald Report The coronavirus pandemic has caused 22% fall in international tourist arrivals in the first quarter (Q1) of the financial year 2020 and could further drop by 60-80% over the whole year, says a report. The UN tourism watchdog says 67 …

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Love in the time of corona: time to build South Asian cooperation

By thehighasia
May 9, 2020
in :  China, Diplomacy, Economy, Education, Energy, Health, India, Kashmir, Latest, Latest News, Opinion, Pakistan, Pandemic, People, Politics, Slider, Society, South Asia, World
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“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky …

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Killing the virus and saving the economy

By thehighasia
May 8, 2020
in :  Climate Change, Democracy, Economy, Education, Governance, Health, Latest, Opinion, Pakistan, People, Politics, Quarantine, Society, South Asia, Tourism, World
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By S. Akbar Zaidi The trade-off being presented of saving lives through a lockdown to eliminate the coronavirus and killing the poor on account of the closure of economic activity is a false one. There is no denying the fact that the spread of the virus and the action taken to protect the lives of people have had severe economic consequences …

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Contextualizing rural development

By thehighasia
May 8, 2020
in :  Chitral, Conflict, Economy, Gilgit-Baltistan, Governance, High Asia Region, Latest, Opinion, Pakistan, Slider, South Asia, World
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In this essay, Amir Hussain critiques the so-called Green Revolution, its myths of rural transformation in the Global South with Pakistan as a case study. This is the first piece of a series of essays, summarising literature survey that he did for the forthcoming book on rural transformation published in The News today.   Amir Hussain   Rural transformation can …

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TMA officials in Chitral awaiting salaries for 3 months

By thehighasia
May 5, 2020
in :  Chitral, Health, High Asia Region, Hindu Kush Ranges, Human Rights, Kashmir, Latest, Lockdown, Pakistan, Pamir Ranges, Sanitaization, Slider, South Asia
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By Gul Hammad Farooqi CHITRAL: As the fear of the people of Chitral rises due to the spike in coronavirus cases in the Hindu Kush mountainous region, so does the anxiety of the Tehsil Municipal Administration (TMA) staffers who have not yet been paid their salaries for the last three months. The TMA officials are performing duty in a very …

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Where did the name K2 come from?

By thehighasia
May 4, 2020
in :  Baltistan Division, China, Features, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia Region, History, India, Karakoram Ranges, Latest, Latest News, Mountaineering, Slider, South Asia, World
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In 1856, the Maharaja Gulab Singh ruled the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir, with the blessing of the British. Lieutenant Thomas George Montgomerie, the commissioner of the Great British Trigonometric Survey of India, was trying to ascertain the heights of the peaks in northwestern Kashmir, but he couldn’t actually get close to ones he wanted to measure: He was …

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Pakistan’s human rights record worrisome: HRCP

By thehighasia
April 30, 2020
in :  Child Rights, Democracy, Gilgit-Baltistan, Governance, Health, Human Rights, Latest, Law, National, Pakistan, People, Politics, Slider, Society, South Asia, World
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Covid-19 pandemic affecting human rights, weakest segments of society invisible and unheard, notes HRCP in its flagship report High Asia Herald Report Islamabad: Pakistan’s human rights record is worrisome as curbs on dissenting views increased. The outbreak of Coronasvirus will have far-reaching effects on people’s economic and social rights fundamental rights, says a report. “Widespread social and economic marginalisation have …

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Irrfan Khan: a powerhouse talent gone too soon

By thehighasia
April 29, 2020
in :  Arts & Culture, India, Latest, Obituary, People, Showbiz, Slider, South Asia
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He was one of Indian cinema’s finest actors and among its most successful exports to Hollywood. He had only just begun, writes Nandini Ramnath.   News Desk Irfan Khan (1967-2020), one of the acclaimed and finest actors of Indian cinema died in Mumbai on Wednesday. He was 53. A veteran of nearly 80 films, Irrfan almost gave up acting in his …

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Polls: SC puts Gilgit-Baltistan govt on notice

By thehighasia
April 29, 2020
in :  Democracy, Ghizer District, Gilgit-Baltistan, High Asia Region, History, Judiciary, Kashmir, Latest, Lockdown, News, Pandemic, Parliament, People, Politics, Slider, Society, South Asia
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Herald Special Correspondent ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top court on Tuesday put on notice the advocate general and government of Gilgit-Baltistan on a petition filed by the Federal government seeking an amendment to the election laws to hold polls in the region. The seven-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed, issued notice to the GB government and its top counsel for Thursday to …

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‘Are we animals?’: migrants bear brunt of lockdown

By thehighasia
April 28, 2020
in :  Conflict, Disaster, Economy, Features, Governance, Health, High Asia Region, Himalayas, Human Rights, India, Latest, Latest News, Lockdown, Pakistan, Pandemic, People, Slider, Social Distancing, South Asia, Women
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Migrant workers in India, Pakistan and Nepal are crushed by poverty as earnings come to an abrupt halt in the lockdown forced by the Covid-19 pandemic, says a report compiled by Joydeep Gupta, Zofeen T Ebrahim, Ramesh Bhushal, published in thethirdpole.net online magazine. News Desk Across South Asia, the impact of the Covid-19 on livelihoods has been extreme. Despite being an outlier …

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Mubarak Wakhani: the Leonardo da Vinci of Yamga

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Book: Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh

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Remembering Antonio Gramsci

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Masculinity, media and madness

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Art’s relationship with power

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Mrinal Sen’s films rejected political apathy

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Tourism

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

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Tourism suffers another blow as PTDC shuts its motels, lays off employees

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