Pakistan's Samina Baig and Naila Kiani, as well as Iranian Afsaneh Hesamifard, Lebanese-Arab Nelly Attar, Bangladesh's Wasifa Nazreen and Stefi Torguet of Andorra stand on the second highest peak on earth. Over a dozen climbers reach the summit. Afghan climber dies of heart attack

Concerns as glaciers melt in Gilgit-Baltistan. Pakistan is home to more than 7,000 glaciers, but rising global temperatures are causing them to melt rapidly.

In addition to needing a male chaperone to go places within the war-torn country, women are now required to bring a male family member with them if they hope to study abroad.

Translated from the Urdu by Raza Naeem Firstly, congratulations on completing three-quarters of the century of your life. In this three-quarters of a century, you have seen countless ups and downs on a personal, social, national and international level, and also made us able to see and comprehend them. There are several such examples in which parents wrote different types …

Akbar Ahmad and Noam Chomsky examine examine issues of race in America which engender different forms of violence and terrorism. While race is on the surface of society, understanding how it related to society’s deeper structures can help make sense of it. It is the failure to tackle race issues that is partly responsible for the turbulence in contemporary American society.

The best-selling author is a gifted storyteller and popular speaker. But he sacrifices science for sensationalism, and his work is riddled with errors.

By Aasim Sajjad Akhtar Over the past three months, a handful of highly influential news celebrities have left no stone unturned in support of the PTI and former prime minister Imran Khan. They have taken narratives about conspiracy and corruption to new heights. One of the most prominent of these individuals was arrested in highly choreographed fashion earlier this week. …

AFP Pakistan is enjoying a bumper climbing season with around 1,400 foreign mountaineers bidding to scale its lofty peaks — including hundreds on the 8,611-metre (28,251-feet) K2, the world’s second highest. “It is a record number,” Raja Nasir Ali Khan, Minister for Tourism, Gilgit-Baltistan, told AFP. The country is home to five of the world’s 14 mountains higher than 8,000 …

There is a need to assess these risks and challenges, and their impacts on biodiversity, ecology and human wellbeing of Hindu Kush-Himalaya regions

By Inayat Amir Flash floods and landslides have wreaked havoc in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral claiming eight lives during the last week. Unprecedented heatwave exacerbated the glacier melt and outburst of lakes, swelling streams and rivers that triggered flash floods and landslides in Ghizer, Hunza, Diamer, Baltistan and Chitral. Local residents are busy with rescue work at Sherqilla. Photos by Sher …

Tseng Ko-Erh aka Grace Tseng from Taiwanese and Pasang Lhamu Sherpa (Akita) become the first woman in their countries to conquer Nanga Parbat

Iman Karim was part of an expedition along with noted mountaineer Sirbaz Khan and Rana Javed.

By Inayat Amir The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the state to criminalize torture and make legislations for its prevention. On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the HRCP said that neither a state of war nor an order from a superior authority justified torture which hurts the very foundation of the rule of …

By Zubair Torwali Dardistan is one of the most diverse linguistic regions in the world. In the 1930s, the Norwegian linguist Georg Morgenstierne called it one of the most polyglot parts of Asia. More recently, the Italian anthropologist Augusto Cacopardo has called it ‘Peristan’, an area with an ‘enormous diversity of tongues and cultures’. The region has the large Dardic …

By Ashab Baig The situation is so acute on Pakistan’s economic front that a bailout package from IMF has become integral to provide lifeline to the economy. The situation is alarming because of the USD/PKR exchange rate that is all time high at 212, single digit USD reserves of less than 9 billion barely enough to afford 45-day import bill; …