Slowing economy and inequality force new priorities for Chinese rulers
Leaders of world’s second-largest economy face some of their most difficult policy decisions in years in 2019 Lily Kuo Beijing
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Campaingers voice concern over Dubai princess life
AFP LONDON: Campaigners have voiced concern after former UN human rights chief Mary Robinson said a princess who tried to
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The Silk Road: How the ancient route is becoming a pathway to the future
By Andrew MacLeod Recent infrastructure investments in Silk Road countries are putting the historic pathway back on the map. As Andrew MacLeod
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Syrian army enters Manbij in new alliance with Kurds
Syrian troops deployed in support of Kurdish forces around a strategic northern city on Friday, in a shift of alliances
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Boy miraculously survives French avalanche
HAH Report A 12-year-old boy has been found alive after being buried under an avalanche in the French
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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.”
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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.
Read MoreUN rights watchdog for an end to misuse of ATA against political activists in GB
HAH Special Islamabad: Amid strong protests from the indigenous people over the much-touted Gilgit-Baltistan Order 2018 that was unveiled by former
Read MoreTwenty-five years of conserving biodiversity in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya regions
Janita Gurung & Pradyumna J.B. Rana The 25 years after Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) ratification have seen many successes
Read MoreTwenty-five years of conserving biodiversity in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya regions
Janita Gurung & Pradyumna J.B. Rana Twenty-five years after the ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), we have seen many
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Suppression of critical thinking has given rise to current socio-political malaise: Hoodbhoy
HAH Special Report ISLAMABAD: Suppression of critical thinking and scientific enquiry have given rise to the current social and political
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Pakistanis distressed as Uighur wives vanish in China dragnet
By Gohar Abbas with Ben Dooley ISLAMABAD/BEIJING: Every autumn on the mountainous Karakoram Highway, part of the ancient Silk Road, groups
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Evil Eighties
Salman Tarik Kureshi “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a
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Waves of Culture in Lahore
Fawzia Afzal-Khan The Lahore Literary Festival has been succeeded by a string of events and activities in Lahore bespeaking a
Read MoreAcademics from world, local top varsities voice concern at social media campaign against two PU teachers
In a letter, over 60 noted professors, researchers urge Punjab university admin, provincial authorities to ensure the protection of life
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