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11 How migrants made their way: The role of pioneering migrants and solidarity networks of the Wakhi of Gojal (Northern Pakistan) in shaping the dynamics of rural-urban migration Andreas Benz Working Paper Series Paper Working crossroads asia crossroads ISSN 2192-6034 Bonn, July 2013 Crossroads Asia Working Papers Competence Network Crossroads Asia: Conflict – Migration – Development Editors: Ingeborg Baldauf, Stephan Conermann, Anna-Katharina Hornidge, Hermann Kreutzmann, Shahnaz Nadjmabadi, Dietrich Reetz, Conrad Schetter and Martin Sökefeld. How to cite this paper: Benz, Andreas (2013): How migrants made their way: The role of pioneering migrants and solidarity networks of the Wakhi of Gojal (Northern Pakistan) in shaping the dynamics of rural-urban migration. In: Crossroads Asia Working Paper Series, No. 11. Partners of the Network: Imprint Competence Network Crossroads Asia: Conflict – Migration – Development Project Office Center for Development Research/ZEFa Department of Political and Cultural Change University of Bonn Walter-Flex Str. 3 D-53113 Bonn Tel: + 49-228-731722 Fax: + 49-228-731972 Email: [email protected] Homepage: www.crossroads-asia.de i How migrants made their way: The role of pioneering migrants and solidarity networks of the Wakhi of Gojal (Northern Pakistan) in shaping the dynamics of rural-urban migration Andreas Benz Table of Contents 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 1 2. The current state -
Gilgit- Baltistan)
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Florence Research Naveiñ Reet: Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research (NNJLSR) No.8 2018, pp. 77-100 Civil Society and Governance in Gojal (Gilgit- Baltistan) Fazal Amin Beg 1 and Zoran Lapov 2 Abstract Focusing on both soft and hard development, Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) reached Gilgit-Baltistan and neighbouring Chitral (northern Pakistan) in 1982. In a short span of time, more than 4,500 community associations, namely village and women’s organisations (VWOs), were formed throughout the Region, introducing the local population to democratic governance grounded in civil society-based system. The phenomenon brought about producing significant public and agricultural infrastructures in less than 15 years. As a result, AKRSP turned into a laboratory and model of rural development for many South Asian realities. Underpinned by a qualitative case study and relevant literature review, the present research addresses the process of civil society construction in Gojal (sub-district of Hunza, Gilgit-Baltistan), including the role and engagement of AKRSP: introduced by depicting the scheme of traditional social institutions in front of novel patterns of social organisation, the paper delves into the emergence of – formal and informal – civil society organisations (CSOs) in the form of local support organisations (LSOs) as federations of VWOs and related networks, whose establishment in Gilgit-Baltistan (as well as in Chitral) is a recent phenomenon dating back to the mid-2000s. 1 Fazal Amin Beg, the main author of the paper, has academic background in Sociocultural anthropology, and Farsi literature. -
Open Access Journal Home Page: ISSN: 2223-957X
Int. J. Econ. Environ. Geol. Vol. Alam10 (4 et) 25al.- 29 /Int.J.Econ.Environ.Geol.Vol., 2019 10(4) 25-29, 2019 Open Access Journal home page: www.econ-environ-geol.org ISSN: 2223-957X c The Process Designing of Gold Extraction from Placers of Passu to Shimshal (Hunza Valley) Gilgit-Baltistan by Mercury Amalgamation and Cyanidation Leached Method Muhammad Alam1, Javed Akhter Qureshi2*, Garee Khan2, Manzoor Ali3, Naeem Abbas4, Sher Sultan2, Asghar Khan,2 Yasmeen Bano5 Government Degree College Gilgit,1 Department of Earth Sciences,2 Department of Physics,3 Department of Mining Engineering,4 Department of Mathematical Sciences,5 Karakoram International University, Gilgit, Pakistan *E mail: [email protected] Received: 22 October, 2019 Accepted: 03 January, 2020 Abstract: Gold wash through panning or washing in the fluvial sediments or sands is done on the river banks in Skardu, Hunza and other places. The method of gold washing is very crude, primitive and most of the gold is washed away back into the river. The current study mainly focused on extraction of placer gold deposits. Pneumatic machines from Passu to Shimshal (Hunza valley) Gilgit-Baltistan. The mercury amalgamation and cyanide leached methods have been used for placer gold deposits extraction from the concentrate obtained from shaking table. The amount of gold recovered from amalgamation method with mercury was 30.9%. The alloyed gold with other metals, gold dust, and fine gold was recovered by chemical process. The reagent consumption, i.e. 1.4 kg/ton of NACN and 6 Kg / ton of CaO were used for extraction of placer gold deposits. -
Survey of Ecotourism Potential in Pakistan's Biodiversity Project Area (Chitral and Northern Areas): Consultancy Report for IU
Survey of ecotourism potential in Pakistan’s biodiversity project area (Chitral and northern areas): Consultancy report for IUCN Pakistan John Mock and Kimberley O'Neil 1996 Keywords: conservation, development, biodiversity, ecotourism, trekking, environmental impacts, environmental degradation, deforestation, code of conduct, policies, Chitral, Pakistan. 1.0.0. Introduction In Pakistan, the National Tourism Policy and the National Conservation Strategy emphasize the crucial interdependence between tourism and the environment. Tourism has a significant impact upon the physical and social environment, while, at the same time, tourism's success depends on the continued well-being of the environment. Because the physical and social environment constitutes the resource base for tourism, tourism has a vested interest in conserving and strengthening this resource base. Hence, conserving and strengthening biodiversity can be said to hold the key to tourism's success. The interdependence between tourism and the environment is recognized worldwide. A recent survey by the Industry and Environment Office of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP/IE) shows that the resource most essential for the growth of tourism is the environment (UNEP 1995:7). Tourism is an environmentally-sensitive industry whose growth is dependent upon the quality of the environment. Tourism growth will cease when negative environmental effects diminish the tourism experience. By providing rural communities with the skills to manage the environment, the GEF/UNDP funded project "Maintaining Biodiversity in Pakistan with Rural Community Development" (Biodiversity Project), intends to involve local communities in tourism development. The Biodiversity Project also recognizes the potential need to involve private companies in the implementation of tourism plans (PC II:9). -
Rotary Books Report 2013
Rotary Books for the World Rotary Club Rawalpindi Pakistan & Afghanistan District 3272 Pakistan & Afghanistan Chartered in 1953 Rotary Club of Islamabad Margalla, Pakistan Hashoo Foundation, Rotary Club of Islamabad Margalla and Rotary Club Rawalpindi Distributed 45,020 Book Donated by Rotary Books for the World August 2013, Pakistan - Distribution of the Second Container of Books Donated by Rotary Books for the World Introduction In 2011 and 2012, Rotary Books for the World Hashoo Foundation (HF), an NGO committed and The Second Wind Foundation donated a to enable and empower communities to be 40 feet container full of books and educational independent by facilitating equitable access to material to Pakistan to improve the literacy opportunities through economic level of Pakistan's youth as well as sharing development and education across Pakistan. valuable research material with academic HF actively assists in sorting and distributing institutions. these books to the most deserving organizations. On Septembe 2012, HF The books are a charity donation by USA and received 45,020 books ranging from material Canadian citizens to aid literacy efforts in that is useful to primary up to higher Pakistan. The Second Wind Foundation and education levels. The list of sorted book is Rotary Books for the World is the network by attached as Annex 1. which these donations are transferred from the donors to the Hashoo Foundation and the This document aims to report the distribution Rotary Club of Islamabad Margalla, who of the educational material and books agree to distribute the books to the selected amongst various educational institutions and schools and institutions across Pakistan organizations in Pakistan. -
Classification of Adaptation Measures and Criteria for Evaluation Case Studies in the Indus River-Basin
HI-AWARE Working Paper 13 HI A ARE Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience Research Classification of Adaptation Measures and Criteria for Evaluation Case Studies in the Indus River-Basin Consortium members About HI-AWARE Working Papers This series is based on the work of the Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience (HI-AWARE) consortium under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) with financial support from the UK Government’s Department for International Development and the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. CARIAA aims to build the resilience of vulnerable populations and their livelihoods in three climate change hot spots in Africa and Asia. The programme supports collaborative research to inform adaptation policy and practice. HI-AWARE aims to enhance the adaptive capacities and climate resilience of the poor and vulnerable women, men, and children living in the mountains and flood plains of the Indus, Ganges, and Brahmaputra river basins. It seeks to do this through the development of robust evidence to inform people-centred and gender-inclusive climate change adaptation policies and practices for improving livelihoods. The HI-AWARE consortium is led by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). The other consortium members are the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS), The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), the Climate Change, Alternative Energy, and Water Resources Institute of the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (CAEWRI- PARC) and Wageningen Environmental Research (Alterra). For more details see www.hi-aware.org. Titles in this series are intended to share initial findings and lessons from research studies commissioned by HI-AWARE. -
The Case of Khunzhrav Valley in Northern Pakistan
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Florence Research Naveiñ Reet: Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research (NNJLSR) No.8 2018, pp. 7-26 Transition from a Traditional Nature and Game Reserve to a National Park: the Case of Khunzhrav Valley in Northern Pakistan Fazal Amin Baig, Muhammad Ali and Zoran Lapov Abstract Governance systems aimed at protecting natural resources, and especially their biodiversi ty, offer a huge gamut of conservation approaches, tools and intervention patterns, includ ing the management of nature reserves. Set in this sce nario, the paper follows the transi tion process that took the Khunzhrav 1 valley, a tradition al nature and game reserve of the former Hunza State, to a protected area in the form of Khunzhrav National Park (KNP). Dis solved in 1974, the Principality of Hunza was declared part of the Northern Areas, known at present as Gilgit-Baltistan Region (Pakistan). In April 1975, the communal pasturelands within the valley were converted into the Khunzhrav Na tional Park, which was the first such park notified in the Region of Gilgit-Baltistan. The abo lition of the Hunza State, and the following transformation of the valley into a national park had a double effect: the transi tion process led the local community to new condi tions hampering over their ancestral rights to natural resources, particularly grazing and forest rights; concomitantly, their so cial transition from an old royalist towards a new democratic system of governance was affected by a row of multilevel changes. -
Karakoram Paper for JPE.Fm
Conservation and Controversy in the Karakoram: Khunjerab National Park, Pakistan Are Knudsen Introduction “The involvement of local people in planning and management of natural resources is now widely recognized as critical to conservation and development.” Guidelines for Mountain Protected Areas (D.Poore 1992:19) High up in the Hunza valley a couple of thousand Wakhi people reside amidst some of Pakistan’s most spectacular and rugged mountain scenery. They carve out a living from combining pastoral animal husbandry with some work migration and more recently, trekking tourism. Animals are moved across a vast mountain terrain, utilizing sub-alpine and alpine pastures in a complex pastoral herding system. During the summer, women take care of yaks, sheep and goats on the alpine pastures above 4,000 m. In late autumn, male herders move yaks to lower elevations where they look after them through the winter. Whereas the resident Wakhi population has not been the source of great interest, conservation agencies have been alerted by the biodiversity importance of this area and its exceptional range of wild animals, some of them critically endangered. The area is home to the Himalayan brown bear (Ursos arctos), the world’s largest snow-leopard (Panthera uncia) population, wild ungulates such as blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur), and Siberian ibex (Capra ibex siberica) and is the last refuge for the endangered Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii). In 1974 the American wildlife biologist George Schaller proposed establishing a national park in the area (G.Schaller 1980:98ff.). The main objective of the park was to protect the Marco Polo sheep and, possibly, a remnant population of the rare Tibetan wild ass (Equus hemonius kiang). -
Northern Pakistan: the Case of Khunjerab National Park
Mountain protected are as in Northern Pakistan: the case of Khunjerab National Park Are J. Knudsen WP 1997: 17 . W orking Paper Chr. Michelsen Institute mi Development Studies and Human Rights Bergen Norway ISSN 0804-3639 Mountain protected areas in Northern Pakistan: the case of Khunjerab National Park Are J. Knudsen WP 1997: 17 Bergen, December 1997 I-I ~e~~~p~~~~;¿~:~ ~~~~~~E W orking Paper WP 1997: 17 Mountain protected areas in Northern Pakistan: the case of Khunjerab National Park Are J. Knudsen Bergen, December i 997 Summary: This paper discusses recent conversation efforts in Northern Pakistan and the relevance of national parks as legal instruments in nature and wildlife conservation. Employing an extensive case study approach the paper analyses the problems afficting the Khunjerab National Park and discusses why the World Conservation Union (lUCN) disregarded its own policy guidelines for mountain protected areas. The paper advocates a more democratic and pragmatic approach to nature conservation and argues that national parks as traditionally conceived impose heavy burdens on local people. Despite increasing criticism of national parks, they continue to be implemented often for no other reason than the high conservationist profile this alternative offers. Indexing terrns: Nature conservation National parks Wild animals Legal aspects Pakistan To be orderedfrom Chr. Michelsen Institute, Fantoftvegen 38, N-5036 Fantoft, Bergen, Norway. Telephone: +4755574000. Telefax: +4755574166 Introduction1 The involvement of loeal people in planning and management of natural resouree is now widely reeognized as critieal to eonservation and development. Guidelines for Mountain Protected Areas, Duncan Poore (1992: 19) High up in the Karakoram chain a couple of thousand Wakhi people reside among some ofPakistan's most spectacular and rugged mountain scenery. -
Gilgit Baltistan Tourist Guide Map a B C D E F G H Motel in Gilgit Baltistan
GILGIT BALTISTAN TOURIST GUIDE MAP A B C D E F G H MOTEL IN GILGIT BALTISTAN CIVIL HOSPITAL, KARIMABAD NAME NUMBER ADDRESS K BALTIT FORT GILGIT Motel 05811 454262/452562 PTDC Motel Chinnar Inn, Babar Road, Gilgit Baltistan HYDER HILL TOP ABAD HUNZA Khunza HOTEL HUNZA VALLEY MULBERRY HOTEL HUNZA Motel 05813 457069 PTDC Motel, Ghairet, KKH, Hunza, Gilgit Baltistan K DARBAR 1 HOTEL Barishal ALTIT A MK KHAPLU Motel 05817 150450-146-147 PTDC Motel, Khaplu, Gilgit Baltistan ALTIT H ADAB CHINA (XINJIANG PROVINCE) FORT ADL Haidarabad I NK ROA HUNZA NAGAR Ganesh D RAMA LAKE Motel 0517 480386 PTDC Motel, Rama Lake, Astore, Gilgit Baltistan GATEWAY HOTEL AND Hispar HOTEL RESTAURANT River Mamu Har Muhammadabad SKARDU Motel 05815 450291-2 PTDC K-2 Motel, Skardu, Gilgit Baltistan Sumaiyar Aliabad µ SOST Motel 05823 451030 PTDC Motel, Pak-China Border, Sost, Gilgit Baltistan ASKURDAS SABIR HOTEL AskarK AND SHERBAZ H HUSSAIN Das S GUPIS Motel 05814 4480777 District Ghizer, Tehsil Gupis, Gilgit-Baltistan SHOP AS V UNZ AB ABAD ALLE N UNJER RO Y AT A -KH 5 K AD I ARK N-3 O N AL P PANDHAR 05811 454262 TAJIKISTAN Kilik Muchichut Kilik Shalyar East West R H u n z a MURTAZA A HISPE ABAD G R Bun-i-Kotal K A ROAD N Hark - Shirin HUN D BANKS INFORMATION IT- Z R Glacier GIL G A A Maidan D N- E Nagar Gul Mingteke Kharchanai A 35 K O N a g a r R O K R K KILIK Khwaja Daban Dawan A Ulwin Gul Khwaja H CIVIL NAGAR P Ulwin HOSPITAL, VALLEY Parpik Murtazabad Glacier KHUNJERAB Bank Address Telephone No Fax No Email Hakuchar NAGAR Boihil Glacier Waditang MINTAKA NATIONAL -
Law, Culture, and Governance in Hunza
NAVEIÑ REET: Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research NAVEIÑ REET: Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research (NNJLSR) is a peer reviewed annual research journal. NNJLSR aims to publish original and innovative legal scholarship in the diverse fields of law. NNJLSR is keen to publish interdisciplinary socio-legal research that examines the interface between law and political science, economics, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, ecology, feminism and legal institutions. The journal further aims to share research and ideas about legal matters of concern which are common to developing countries; to encourage research in these fields; and to build conventions of academic discourse and publication. The journal encourages work which sees law in a broader sense, and so sees legal matters as including cultural diversity and plural legal realities all over the world. Moreover, the journal aims to function as a platform for communication on legal matters of concern among the powerless and those who struggle to access justice. The journal welcomes contributions from judges, lawyers, academics and law students. In addition, given its policy of encouraging interdisciplinary scholarship, it welcomes input from specialists belonging to other disciplines. Contributors are welcome to address issues from national, comparative and international perspectives. Contributions may be in the form of articles, book reviews, case comments or other forms. The views expressed in the NNJLSR are those of the authors and they are responsible for their views expressed in the NNJLSR. Published by the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at University of Copenhagen. Cooperation: Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan and The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Pakistan.