OMK
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Abdalian | Doctor | Author | Harvard | International Development | President Harvard Club of Pakistan 2022-24 || Travel and Heritage |
This is the view from Hindukush heights in Chitral. Graced by the likes of Diana, Robert de Niro and countless polo champions. The hotel looks over a beautiful valley, but also the chitral airport. Which costs the government of KPK eight million a rupees to keep functional every month. Flights from islamabad to here would take one hour. The airport used to have five flights a day from across the country. Then it had one a day. Then it had a flight a week. For the past three years there are no flights because PIA doesn’t have the money for proper small aircraft. So it takes a 12 hour bus journey across mountain roads to get here.
"Pakistan's warm relations with the United States may cause India to limit its response to the next significant cross-border terrorist incident..," says Kenneth Juster, Former US Ambassador to India
Nature bounces back when we step back. In MHNP reduced human disturbance means wildlife is moving freely again. The once-rare Kalij Pheasant & Barking Deer is now a more common sight — a win for conservation. Our role? Keep their habitat safe and undisturbed. 🌱#SaveWildlife
Mohsin Naqvi is not the only one salivating over what little tree cover we have left. This is KP, where the timber mafia is thriving, and all those who gushed over IK for planting a billion trees are looking the other way.
🇵🇰 Jeremy Scahill says Pakistan’s role in the Iran talks is under scrutiny after relaying assurances that did not materialize. He reports Iranian officials were told Trump would “lift the blockade” on the Strait of Hormuz and extend the ceasefire before talks resume. Instead, Trump extended the ceasefire while keeping the blockade in place. Scahill says Iranian officials told him “we don’t exactly know what Pakistan was told,” and describe Pakistani intermediaries as “scrambling” to understand Trump’s shifting positions. After presenting itself as a brilliant diplomatic broker, Pakistan, as a result, now has “egg on its face.” @jeremyscahill | @ryangrim | @emilyjashinsky
