Articles

If our knowledge is increasing every day (as measured by the number of research publications), why is it that we see such high levels of social and environmental injustice around the world?

Sau-Malik of Gilgit and Chitral and the Mongol War More often than not hidden in the annals of history are instances of smaller nations and kingdoms putting up resistance against vast invading armies. This quality is intrinsic to the sons…

Arandu lies about a hundred kilometers due southwest from Chitral Town and is where our river flows into Afghanistan

  داردستان کا تعارف تحریر: Sviatoslav Kaverin ترجمہ؛ عمران خان آذاد دارد کچھ لوگوں کا گروپ ہے جو داردی زبان بولتے ہیں جس کا تعلق ہند آریائی زبانوں سے ہیں۔ یہ لوگ کابل، چترال، لداخ اور جنوبی کشمیر کے درمیانی علاقوں میں رہتے ہیں جس کی سرحدیں…

Water is a valuable resource which is unfortunately finite. In Gilgit-Baltistan this resource is mainly present in the form of large glaciers, with some of them placed in the list of largest glaciers of the world outside polar regions.…

Swat, Pakistan, year 2007. The Taliban partly deface the Jahanabad Buddha, a colossal sculpture (ca. 7th century CE), which corroborates a past of mosaic intertwined by empires, religions, and peoples.

On Memorable Polo Match—Shahgul Aziz of Gulmit recalls his best match Polo, a game of Central Asian origin was played throughout the Gilgit-Baltistan region. Each locality and village had its own polo team. Hunza was one of such areas where…

“The forests are thick and shady, the fruits and flowers abundant. “Wrote Xuan Zang, the Chinese pilgrim, who visited Swat in 629 CE, quoted by Sultan-i-Rome in his recently published book.

Kalam and the three princely states of Swat, Chitral and Dir In the final decade of the British Raj a war between three Frontier States, with diverse political and ethnic origins set amidst some of the most beautiful valleys in the entire…

Hunza’s importance as a strategic area ascended during the Great Game, when rivalry between the British Lion and Russian bear was on the rise.