The family opened a girls’ school in Hunza in 1946, kickstarting an educational investment that pushed the valley’s literacy ...

Pakistan's FY2025-26 budget cuts development by 50% while increasing defense spending by 20%, reflecting military interests ...

By Sanat Kaul Operation Sindoor brought with it certain new and special features in the Indo-Pak conflicts, which started 77 ...

The Gilgit-Baltistan Order of 2018 provided for administrative ... It is also home to an old Shia community, which often finds itself subjected to persecution in Pakistan’s urban centres.

The Shia Ismaili community, under the leadership of the late Prince Karim Aga Khan, the 49th hereditary imam of the community ...

Peshawar: Gilgit-Baltistan, a region nestled amidst the Himalayas and Karakoram ranges, has been under Pakistan's control since 1947 following the partition of India. This strategically important ...

The lives of people in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir’s (pok) Gilgit-Baltistan have come to a standstill with a complete shutter down and wheel-jam strike being observed against an increase in the ...

We urge the Pakistan government to take strict action against these terrorists”. Gilgit-Baltistan is dominated by the Shia community who have been targeted on several occasions by terrorists from the ...

Raisi, for instance, occasionally refers to himself as “ayatollah,” and although his claim to that title is disputed, there’s no question that he’s a Shia cleric and jurist who studied at ...

In late August, large-scale popular protests erupted in Gilgit Baltistan over the arrest of a Shia cleric under Pakistan’s reinforced Blasphemy laws. These protests, resonating with impassioned chants ...

Javed Ahmad Beigh, a prominent socio-political activist, has drawn attention to the dire human rights situation faced by Shias in Pakistan, particularly in the illegally occupied region of Gilgit ...