The mystery of Gilgit manuscripts:

The Gilgit manuscripts are the only corpus of Buddhist manuscripts discovered in the subcontinent Masud Ahmad Khan   Buddhism, with roots in Hinduism, spread rapidly under Mauryas especially during the time of Asoka. Missionaries were sent to Kashmir under Madhyantika, who resided in Kashmir for 20 years and preached Buddhism. During the time of Asoka, […]

Silk Road: A Glance at Archaic Globalization

Abstract Globalization generally refers to the increased interdependence of the world’s economies signified by the circulation of information, money, people and goods across national boundaries. It has of late given rise to the domination of world’s market by a selected number of transnational corporations. However, since time immemorial, different countries were related to one another […]

The Silk Road to Globalisation

For millennia imperial China was regarded by its denizens and as the centre of the world, and the emperor as the nexus between the Earthly and the Divine. Without the Chinese emperor performing rites there would be loss of balance in the universe. When the European colonial powers sent delegations to the Chinese court what […]

Greetings from Gilgit-Baltistan Social Welfare Organization

Team Gilgit-Baltistan Social Welfare Organization congratulates Kumail Abbas (Executive Member Gilgit-Baltistan Social Welfare Organization) and other candidates from Gilgit-Baltistan for their success in the Combine Competitive Examination 2017-18.

Greetings from Gilgit-Baltistan Social Welfare Organization

Team Gilgit-Baltistan Social Welfare Organization congratulates all successful candidates of Central Superior Service (CSS) from Gilgit-Baltistan. 1.Talat Fida from gilgit group (IRS) 2.Shehzad Ali from Nagar (IRS) 3. Mohsin hassan from skardu group (PCS) 4.  Asad Ali from Astore Group (PSP) 5. Asmat Abbas from Astore group (OMG) Well done! We are proud of you.

Awareness Seminar

Gilgit-Baltistan Awareness Seminar in Skardu. Date: June 25, 2017 Venue: Al-Yousaf Hall Airport Road Skardu Gilgit-Baltistan

Hegemony and its malaise

Human society is different from biological organisms or animal kingdoms because the former cannot be explained through universal laws, whereas the latter two follow universal laws and instincts respectively. The reason why human societies cannot be explained through fixed laws is that humans are capable of creating complex social structures and ideas. It is this […]

The Gilgit-Baltistan question

A provincial status for Gilgit-Baltistan, conditional on the final resolution of the Kashmir conflict on the basis of a plebiscite, shall not take away from Pakistan’s principled stand in the UN As the Prime Minister made his way to the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly, as it was known then, he was greeted along the way by […]