High Asia offers a great prospect for building a safer world for billions of people and needs trans-boundary solutions engaging India, Pakistan, Afghanistan China, Nepal, and the Central Asian States by declaring the region an ecological state and its population as ecology citizens, writes Amir Hussain.  Five hundred years ago, in the days of big empires, one would look like a …

  By Farman Ali We are pleased to announce the soft launching of the High Asia TV transmission with an exclusive talk show on the geostrategic, ecological and economic importance of the less known High Asia region also called as ‘Roof of the World”, a metaphoric description of the complex of mountain ranges comprising the Himalayas, Hindu Kush, Pamir, Tian Shan, …

In this article, Amir Hussain has tried to provide an alternative perspective of the post-colonial nation-state, the contradiction of nationalist movements, fragmentation of identity politics and ecology. It is a relevant read to those interested in history, identity politics, law and ecology of Gilgit-Baltistan. The postcolonial nation-state, from Africa to Asia, is an artificial geographical division of landmass which has not …

By Ammar Rashid Starting today, we will see the largest worldwide climate mobilisation in the history of the planet for a week. Millions of young people across over 120 countries, including Pakistan, will flood out of schools, universities, and workplaces into the streets for a global climate strike to demand that governments take radical action to address the ecological crisis …

Trophy hunting has introduced a market ethic whereby the animal is seen in purely utilitarian terms. Shafqat Hussain The recent news about trophy hunting of markhor and ibex in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) has sparked intriguing public debates. Many have questioned the ethics of this practice, while others have asked about its social, ecological and economic impact. The question of ethics in …