Hunzatimes News Network

Northern Areas Chief Executive Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan told the legislative assembly on Thursday that he had made it clear to the federal government that there would be no compromise on the rights of Diamer-Bhasha dam’s royalty, adding the centre had agreed in principal to give the people of Gilgit-Baltistan the right.

He said [...]

Northern Areas provide over 80% of the country’s available habitat for snow leopards. Recent studies suggest the population here might be as high as 400 animals, or as low as 250. Here, as elsewhere, the main threats come from retaliatory killing due to livestock depredation, illegal hunting for the cats’ valuable pelt, bones and [...]

Community Members Gathering with NACP

The Northern Areas Conservation Program (NACP) is a multi-year program in southern Gilgit and Diamer Districts of Northern Pakistan designed to help protect one of the last extensive arid conifer forests in the Western Himalayas – an area that has been deemed a Global 200 Ecoregion, an Endemic Bird [...]