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Tag: Hindu Kush

Posted inAfghanistan

‘Fight to the death’ looms in Panjshir Valley

by Dave Makichuk August 26, 2021August 31, 2021

It’s only a matter of when the attack comes. And when it does it could be the greatest battle, and possibly the bloodiest, that Afghanistan has ever seen. You see, thirty-three of Afghanistan’s thirty-four provinces fell to the Taliban over the span of two weeks in early August. But one region, has not. The sole […]

Where the Karakoram, Hindu Kush and Himalayas meet. Photo: Asia Times
Posted inSouth Asia

Climate threat to Asia’s great rivers

by AT Contributor January 10, 2020March 7, 2020
The Khunjerab Pass, starting point of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Photo: Asia Times
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, China, India, Middle East, Northeast Asia, Pakistan, Russia, Shanghai, South Asia, World

On the road in the Karakoram

by Pepe Escobar December 22, 2018February 18, 2020
Almandine crystals in a muscovite mica, Hunza Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Posted inAT Finance, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Middle East, Pakistan, South Asia, Thailand, World

Pakistan is squandering a sublime bequest – its gemstones

by F.M. Shakil June 25, 2017February 18, 2020
Posted inThe Roving Eye

Yemen, the new Waziristan

by Pepe Escobar February 11, 2010June 22, 2020

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