High Asia Herald Report Islamabad Supreme Court of Pakistan’s Thursday (Jan 17) judgment on the constitutional status of Gilgit-Baltistan prompted a mixed reaction from political and social circles. The verdict on the one hand watered down the hopes of the mainstream and pro-accession parties and demolished the myth that GB has been or could be made Pakistan’s “provisional province” through …

Runyu Liang This Photo Friday highlights Siachen Glacier, the world’s highest battlefield, located on the India and Pakistan border in Jammu and Kashmir. Soldiers there are facing harsh conditions to ensure stableness of the line between the countries. On 25 December, the Indian Army announced the recovery of an army helicopter stuck at 18,000 feet. This ALH Dhruv chopper had …

IT HAS FOR so long been a country of such unmet potential that the scale of Pakistan’s dereliction towards its people is easily forgotten. Yet on every measure of progress, Pakistanis fare atrociously. More than 20m children are deprived of school. Less than 30% of women are employed. Exports have grown at a fifth of the rate in Bangladesh and …

Akhandadhi Das Courtesy Wikipedia You might think that digital technologies, often considered a product of ‘the West’, would hasten the divergence of Eastern and Western philosophies. But within the study of Vedanta, an ancient Indian school of thought, I see the opposite effect at work. Thanks to our growing familiarity with computing, virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI), ‘modern’ …

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar IT has been almost two decades since the ‘war on terror’ exploded into the public consciousness. Today, it seems like ‘terrorism’ and the unending struggle against it could be around forever. So it is not to be taken lightly that there is talk that the original site of the ‘war on terror’ — Afghanistan — is now …

Prime Minister Narendra Modi rechristened Ross Island, Neil Island and Havelock Island as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Island, Shaheed Dweep and Swaraj Dweep. News Desk Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday renamed three islands in the Andaman and Nicobar Union Territory in a tribute to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, NDTV reported. Ross Island, Neil Island and Havelock Island have been …

The legendary Bengali filmmaker has died in Kolkata at the age of 95. He was a winner of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award and had also received the Padma Bhushan. Bubla Basu Noted Bengali filmmaker Mrinal Sen died of age-related ailments at his house in Kolkata’s Bhawanipore on Sunday morning, ABP Ananda reported. He was 95 and is survived by …