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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The suggestion that GB be made a province of Pakistan has stirred a new debate, especially about Pakistan’s stance over Kashmir The undefined status of Gilgit-Baltistan has always unnerved Islamabad.

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 ...

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 — ...

PESHAWAR: Nine volunteers were killed and three others were injured when a landslide buried them during restoration of a flood-damaged water channel in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir's Gilgit region, ...

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 ...