ISLAMABAD: Meteorologists worried at the depletion of glaciers in Pakistan studied six glaciers in the Karakorum Range recently, and the results have made them worry even more. “All of them were found melting at a faster rate. The changing climate is taking a heavy toll on our glaciers,” Chief Meteorologist of Pakistan Met Department (PMD) Dr Ghulam Rasul told Dawn. And the disaster awaiting the nation can be imagined as depletion of…
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GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Chief Minister Mehdi Shah has leveled strong criticism against the federal government’s apathy on granting constitutional rights to the region, blaming it for the area’s stunted development. According to a press release issued on Sunday, Shah lauded the sacrifices made for the county by the people of G-B over the last six decades. “I can rightly say that our sacrifices have not been acknowledged,” he said. In 1947, G-B was…
By JANE PERLEZ BEIJING — A major reclamation project by the Chinese government on a tiny reef 500 miles from the mainland would enable China to land military aircraft there, expanding its reach into the contested South China Sea, analysts have said. The analysts’ report came as a group affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army hosted an international conference in Beijing on Friday and Saturday intended to showcase President Xi Jinping’s call for a…
By ANDREW JACOBS in The NY Times, Nov 24, 2014 BEIJING — Ambitious and fluent in Mandarin, the young Uighur strivers from the Xinjiang region of northwest China had earned coveted slots at the nation’s top university for ethnic minorities. Most were the first in their families to attend college. But since last January, at least five men and women who attended Minzu University in Beijing have been incommunicado after they were swept up…