Our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: A project worth $37 million regarding installation of early warning systems in 24 valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan to avoid flash floods, under the Green Climate Fund, would be completed in June 2022. The climate change ministry said the project was delayed due to some technical reasons, but now all modalities had been sorted out and work was in progress according to the schedule. The outbreak of coronavirus pandemic was one of the main reasons that proved to be stumbling block in initiation of the project that was aimed at protecting the local communities against flash floods due to outburst of glacial lakes. According to United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), more than 3,000 glacial lakes had formed as of 2018 in northern areas, with 33 of them considered hazardous due to which more than 7 million people living downstream face risk of flash floods. The locals said that a flash flood occurred in May last year due to outburst in Shishper glacier at Hasa
ISLAMABAD: A project worth $37 million regarding installation of early warning systems in 24 valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan to avoid flash floods, under the Green Climate Fund, would be completed in.
A papiermâché craftsman at work in Srinagar
| Photo Credit: NISSAR AHMAD
Militancy, a flood, the pandemic Kashmir s ancient art of papier-mâché is at its lowest ebb now, but there may be a ray of hope for the future
Sometime in the 12th century, Omar Khayyam, the Persian poet and astronomer, wrote these lines about love and longing: “Come, fill the cup, and in the fire of spring / The winter garment of repentance fling: The bird of time has but a little way / To fly and Lo! the bird is on the wing.”
Khayyam could never have imagined that his words would be depicted, nearly a millennium later, in a far-off place called Kashmir, on four-foot-high, intricately designed, papier-mâché vases. His poems continue to inspire the masters of papier-mâché art, who live in the narrow bylanes of Srinagar’s Zadibal-Alamgari Bazaar. They have, for centuries, striven to bring to life the literary works of poets, Iranian kings and Mughal emperors, adding their familiar, local
Shia cleric meets LG, discussesissues pertaining to community
Shia cleric meets LG, discussesissues pertaining to community
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 16: Prominent Shia cleric and scholar, Sayed Kalbe Jawed Naqvi alognwith some local prominent persons met the Lt Governor here and discussed issues pertaining to the Shia community.
Briefing media about the visit and meeting with the Lt Governor, Sohail Qazmi, a member of the community said that prominent Shia scholar had visit to Kashmir to understand the present State of affairs of the Shia community all over the Valley. His present visit was purely in the nature of to know the socio-economic and religious affairs and also to know what difficulties are being experienced by the people in general and Shia community in particular.
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