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Pakistan Signs 43-Year-Lease for Its New Port with China
Gwadar Port Authority has rented 923 hectare (2,300 acre) to China for developing the first special economic zone (SEZ) of…
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Peak fragility: Conserving mountain soils an urgent matter
New book on the importance of management of mountain soils 23 June 2015, Rome – Mountain soils are the fragile…
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UK relaxes travel advice to Gilgit-Baltistan
Monitoring Desk British tourists can return to Gilgit-Baltistan after the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) lifted its travel advice on…
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Wakhan Corridor: Afghanistan’s bittersweet Oasis
In a country that is mostly painted negatively in the Western press — oppression of women, deaths of American soldiers, repeated…
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UNDP, Japan to support Afghan-Tajikistan border trade with new $4.2mn project
Dushanbe, 03 March– The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Governments of Tajikistan and Japan as well as Japan International…
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