In 1989, Syed Yahya Shah Al-Hussaini – a local political and religious leader from the Bar Valley in Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan – came up with a rather unusual conservation trade-off: helping ...

HUSSAINABAD: Beneath the towering, frost-capped peaks of the country’s northern ranges, farmers facing water shortages have turned to building their own ice towers. In Gilgit Baltistan’s (GB) remote ...

China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is an infrastructural project aimed at renewing China’s historical trade routes in the Eurasian mainland and also in the coastal countries of South East Asia ...

Zinat Bibi grips the reins of her cattle as she guides them across a sturdy bridge, a new addition to Chipurson valley that has transformed life for her and hundreds of other villagers. Nestled in ...

GILGIT: Flash floods continued to wreak havoc across Gilgit-Baltistan on Saturday, leaving one person dead, eight injured, and dozens displaced. Roads and bridges were swept away, thousands — ...

A Pakistan Army helicopter crashed on Monday morning in the Thor Valley of Diamer district, Gilgit-Baltistan, killing all five personnel on board, officials confirmed. According to Gilgit-Baltistan ...

Buddhism took birth from Hinduism and India gave this religion to the world. A son born to Suddhodana, a Kshatriya in the year 563 BC. He was named Siddhartha and later he came to be referred as ...