Book: Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh
British colonial officer John Biddulph’s book is considered as one of the pioneering works in English that provided an insight to
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Chinese team summit Mount Everest during pandemic
The team is there to re-measure the height of Everest, which is on the two countries’ border A team of
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Global tourist arrivals could fall by 80pc: reports
The pandemic causes a 22% decline in tourist arrivals in Q1, or $80bn loss, says UNWTO reports Herald Report
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Google celebrates Manto’s birthday with a doodle
There was an uncanny similarity between the lives of Pushkin and Manto, writes Raza Naeem. Both were largely unrecognised in their
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Love in the time of corona: time to build South Asian cooperation
“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different.
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A letter to my father, Gabriel García Márquez
Not a day goes by that I don’t come across a reference to your novel “Love in the Time of
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Remembering Antonio Gramsci
By Lorenzo Alfano Antonio Gramsci died on April 27, 1937, after eleven years in fascist prisons. We remember his revolutionary life
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Killing the virus and saving the economy
By S. Akbar Zaidi The trade-off being presented of saving lives through a lockdown to eliminate the coronavirus and killing the
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Contextualizing rural development
In this essay, Amir Hussain critiques the so-called Green Revolution, its myths of rural transformation in the Global South with
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One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years: study
Scorching heat will envelop 185m people in Pakistan; human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder and sooner than previously believed,
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Where did the name K2 come from?
In 1856, the Maharaja Gulab Singh ruled the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir, with the blessing of the British.
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Uzbek authorities launch probe into dam burst
The newly-built Sardoba reservoir breached its wall on May 1 prompting a mass evacuation Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoev meets with evacuees
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Tajikistan reports first deaths from coronavirus
Universities closed. The global death toll is approaching 230,000 with more than 3.2 million infections confirmed, causing mass disruptions. Tajikistan
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Pakistan’s human rights record worrisome: HRCP
Covid-19 pandemic affecting human rights, weakest segments of society invisible and unheard, notes HRCP in its flagship report High Asia
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Covid-19 and misinformation
“O you who believe! if a person of bad characters brings you any news, verify it, lest you should harm
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