Qudrat Ali and Saad Munawar traverse 665km through Himalays, Karakoram and Hindu Kush ranges in 23 days Abdullah Bai Islamabad July 18: Two Pakistani climbers have set a new world record by completing traverse of three mountain ranges in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. Qudrat Ali, a famous climber from Shimshal valley in upper Hunza and Saad Munawar, a student from …
Over 20,000 tourists and spectators enjoyed the three-day Shandur festival that ended on Tuesday amid dance, music, and paragliding show By Karim Ullah CHITRAL, July 9: Chitral retained its title and won trophy sixth consecutive time beating Gilgit-Baltistan by 6-5 goals after the sensational contest on the final match on Tuesday. The three-day mega annual cultural-cum-sports event ended amid …
OHCHR blasts India and Pakistan for failing to improve the situation in the contested Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan Herald Report The UN human rights office on Monday blasted India and Pakistan for failing to improve the situation in the contested Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan, while renewing calls for an international probe into violations in the disputed Himalayan region. Last year, the …
The recent opening up of trophy hunting, at very high prices for very few permits, of the markhor mountain goat has led to advantages for the villagers, and better protection for the animal, in Gilgit-Baltistan By Zofeen T. Ebrahim The good news is that the trophy hunting programme for markhor, the wild goat that is Pakistan’s national animal, has led to an …
GILGIT: Thousands of Buddhists from Japan, South Korea and other parts of the world visiting Gilgit city every year crave to see the 7th-century Kargah Buddha figure carved into solid rock at a high altitude, but face difficulties due to the dilapidated condition of the road leading to the site. Kargah Buddha, Yashani in the local language, is a unique …
Baam-e-Dunya/Herald Report GILGIT: Political circles and lawyers of Gilgit-Baltistan have expressed reservations about the appointment of top judge of the region. They rejected the decision of Prime Minister Imran Khan government and warned to launch a movement if it was not withdrawn. In a letter to the heads of all representative bodies of Gilgit-Baltistan lawyers former president of the Supreme …
Representatives of over a dozen indigenous peoples of mountainous regions discuss challenges, opportunities, and strategies at Bahrain conference Farman Ali The adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the 13th of September 2007 was a major step towards addressing the human rights violations against 400 million Indigenous peoples in over 70 countries. The Declaration …
Najam Sethi reviews Nasim Zehra’s book From Kargil to the Coup: Events that shook Pakistan The Kargil story or “misadventure” is now well known, thanks in no small part to Nasim Zehra’s chilling thriller From Kargil to the Coup: Events that shook Pakistan. The book was published last year, twenty years after the event. You can understand why it took so …
Shahzaib Hassan “Man is by nature a social animal and that one who does not socialize in society is either a beast or a god.”—Aristotle It is a universally accepted fact that we are nothing if we are not interconnected, interdependent and interlinked in a chain and does not feel each other’s pain, sorrow, and agonies. According to a research …
“I think it’s definitely more for the adventurer,” comments one international skier. AFP Skiers descend in long, rhythmic swoops down pristine white slopes in the northern areas, braking in a spray of snow as soldiers carrying semi-automatic weapons watch impassively. Dozens of athletes recently took part at the rare international competition in the country, which boasts some of the world’s …
