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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 ...

It is the shortsightedness of the Pakistani state that it has made an independent part of Gilgit-Baltistan part of the Kashmir imbroglio. As a result, Gilgit-Baltistan has become a marginal issue in ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...