by Inayat Abdali   GILGIT: The administrations of Nagar District and Yasin Tehsil in Ghizer District as preemptive measures have banned all kinds of public and religious gatherings in their respective jurisdiction to contain the spread of coronavirus. According to a notification, issued by the Nagar Deputy Commissioner, the administration in pursuance of the Gilgit-Baltistan government decision and after consultation …

Hotels, motels, and guest houses turned into incubation centres; markets, shops, parks, wedding halls shut; religious congregations, public gatherings, rallies as well as entry of tourists to GB banned for 21 days; exams, sports activities cancelled.   by Inayat Abdali   Gilgit: As the number of coronavirus continues to rise, civic, social and economic life comes to grinding halt in …

  More than 1,000 remain there as thousands more are released into impoverished Balochistan, reports The Guardian newspaper    It was the smell that was the worst. In this dusty camp on Pakistan’s border with Iran, which at one stage held more than 6,000 people, the stench of sweat, rubbish and human excrement hung in the air. There was no …

By: Aziz Ali Dad   A study of the relationship of new media of communication and information technology with social change in the particular context of Pakistan reveals a different pattern of transformation. Instead of creating a rupture in the continuity of cultural ethos and traditional outlook, electronic media in our country buttresses prevalent biases and irrational mindset of the …

  The two organisations arrange buses, to send 500 students to Gilgit-Baltistan; another 500 students will depart on March 18   Herald Special Report As the cases of coronavirus soared in Pakistan, the federal government, as usual, announced the closure of educational institutes and called for enforcing social distancing without putting in place any concrete alternative mechanism to deal with …

| By Shafqat Aziz | The students of history have the luxury of travelling back to eras and epochs ranging a few decades to millions of years. To observe the great struggles for human rights, gender equality and all the fundamental freedoms, travel to the 19th century would be more advisable for rapid developments around such evolutionary concepts. This epoch …

Gilgit-Baltistan Youth Action Committee expresses its commitment to struggle for the achievement of the 15-point demands. | by By Anayat Baig & Adnan Hassan Gohar | KARACHI: Gilgit-Baltistan’s youth have called on the government to revive ancient routes and repair all important roads connecting their region to Pakistan, and Kashmir, provide modern air and land travel services to the people …

Expatriate returning from Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon arrive to be re-tested at a Kuwaiti health ministry containment and screening zone for COVID-19 coronavirus disease in Kuwait City on March 16, 2020.Facing a mounting public health threat, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Oman have taken drastic measures to combat the pandemic. Kuwait has taken the strictest …

Herald Report   The worldwide spread of coronavirus that has devastated the global economy has also hit hard the tourism and hospitality industry with major tourist destinations seeing limited visitors while several airlines have suspended or limited their operations. The World Tourism Organisation of the United Nations, (UNWTO) in response to the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak, has cancelled immediately, all its …

  by Harris Khalique | | It is indeed a matter of profound privilege and great pleasure to deliver this speech at the closing ceremony of the 11th Karachi Literature Festival. Particularly, because this city by the sea is my birthplace and although I have not been living here for long, “to my soul/ the streets anywhere are the streets …