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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded the Tajik government "strictly observe its obligations to respect and protect people’s rights to life, and freedom of assembly and the media in any military or law enforcement operations in Tajikistan’s autonomous region.

This isn’t the first time that the military establishment has been on the receiving end of a public backlash. Will the outcome be different this time? Aasim Sajjad Akhtar There are thousands of charged protesters on the streets of Islamabad, many inside the otherwise impermeable Red Zone. They face baton charges, tear gas shelling, and arrests. Fierce slogans against the …

by Irshad Ullah Khan Peshawar: Violation of merit has allegedly been made in recruiting over 100 officers on various posts in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly during the PTI government.  Relatives of former chief ministers, ministers, former members of the provincial assembly, and officers were favoured in the recruitment, sources told the High Asia Herald.  The sources alleged that more than 125 …

Upper Chitral is a remote mountainous district of KP lacking basic necessities of life including electricity. Students are affected the most

Rugged terrain of the region amplifies gender disparity in work. According to the Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) survey 2019-20, the labor force participation rate for women in Gilgit-Baltistan was only 18%, significantly lower than the rate for men, which was 65%. This disparity is also evident in the education sector where the literacy rate for women in Gilgit-Baltistan is only 31%, compared to 58% for men.

Over the past few months, Pakistan’s dire economic situation has garnered considerable attention in the political, media and intellectual mainstream. Back-breaking inflation, record unemployment and a plunging rupee have been accompanied by desperation to acquire more loans from external creditors, most notably the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Even now the country stands perilously close to default. The current government insists …

By Our correspondent Speaker of an event organised in connection with International Women’s Day highlighted the role of women in building strong communities and creating a better future for all. The event titled “Empowering Women, Empowering Communities” was jointly held by the Women Rights Movement GB and Ciqam – Green Solutions Pvt Ltd to celebrate the strength, resilience, and contribution …

By Hassan Abbas On Sept 19, 1960, a treaty was signed between India and Pakistan on water sharing. The decis­i­ons taken effectively meant that the three rivers of the Indus River basin — each rivalling the size of the Colorado River — would not be allowed to follow their natural courses. This was unprecedented. Since the dawn of the Industrial …

Author of surprise hit Capital in the Anthropocene has developed his arguments in a new study of Karl Marx’s ecological thinking. By Maya Goodfellow When academic Kohei Saito submitted his manuscript on Karl Marx, the ecological crisis and arguments for degrowth economics, he hoped it might introduce at least some people in Japan to a new perspective on the climate …

By News desk Various Pakistani universities have signed cooperative agreements with leading Turkish universities during their visit to Istanbul for the exchange of students and faculty to boost academic collaboration.  According to a statement, the agreements were signed under the auspices of the Association of Private Sector Universities Pakistan (APSUP). The agreements were signed by Istanbul Aydin Universty and Yeditepe …

From who is most affected to who gets to be in the room when decisions are made, gender affects every aspect of our relationship with climate change. By Rina Saeed Khan Gender imbues every aspect of our relationship with climate change, especially in the South Asian region. Deep-rooted gender inequality can leave many women in South Asia more vulnerable to …

By Dr Naazir Mahmood The Indus Cultural Forum (ICF) has been organizing the Pakistan Mother Languages Literature (PMLL) Festival in Islamabad for the last eight years. It coincides with the International Mother Language Day the world observes annually on February 21. In 1999, Unesco introduced this day to raise awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity, and promote multilingualism; and the …

By News desk Investigative journalist Umar Cheema has claimed that the storm of audio leaks does not seem to be abating as there is a threat of more coming in the next few days. Commenting on the suo moto notice taken by the supreme court over the delay in Punjab and KP by-polls, Umar quoted SC judges Justice Mansoor Ali …

By Dr Aasim Sajjad Akhtar        THE IMF issues commandments, and our finance czars comply. The most recent iteration of this merry-go-round saw the government going through the motions of farcical parliamentary legislation to levy yet more indirect taxes on a helpless populace. No need to whisper it: this is a banana republic. Debate over whether the khakis, bureaucrats, the …