Sumaira JajjaPublished 18 Feb, 2021 05:51pm
This article was originally published on February 8.
“Mountains demand passion.
Aap ki dillagi hone chahiyee paharoon kay saath [your heart needs to be in love with the mountains],” a beaming Muhammad Ali Sadpara had said in 2016 when I asked what it takes to become a mountaineer.
A “jolly, good fellow”, Sadpara is often described by his peers as a tough as nails climber with a good-humoured nature. The only Pakistani to have climbed eight of the 14 8,000 metre peaks, Sadpara came to prominence in local media when he, along with Spain’s Alex Txikon and Italy’s Simone Moro, made a world record with the first winter summit of Nanga Parbat in 2016. The Spaniard and the Italian said their summit would not have been possible without Sadpara, a rousing endorsement for a man largely hidden from the public eye in Pakistan.
Community empowerment stressed for sustainable development
National
February 8, 2021
Islamaba: Speaking at a webinar the participants urged the respective governments to develop a mechanism to ensure the use of collective wisdom and a joint platform to work together for social development. They said the mountain community leaders and political workers shall come together beyond their political, ethnic, and regional divide to voice against the exploitation of natural resources, social and livelihood challenges. The mountain development and conservation plans of the government shall include the voices and concerns of the communities and other stakeholders. Ill-planned infrastructure development and environmentally unfriendly interventions in the name of tourism promotion and livelihood are becoming nature hazard. A fistful of experts, government aides, and external elements are taking undue advantage of the mountain resources.
Rescue operation temporarily suspended as Sadpara, 2 other mountaineers still missing on K2 Dawn 08/02/2021 none@none.com (Jamil Nagri | Sumaira Jajja)
The rescue operation to locate three climbers, including Pakistan s Muhammad Ali Sadpara, who went missing while attempting to summit the world s second-highest mountain, K2, was temporarily suspended after it failed to locate the mountaineers for the second day on Sunday.
Climbers part of the search operation, including Nazir Sabir and Romanian Alex Găvan, confirmed to Dawn.com that an operation to locate the missing mountaineers would continue on Monday for a third straight day.
Sadpara, John Snorri from Iceland and JP Mohr from Chile have not been contacted since the three began their push for the K2 summit from camp 3 at midnight between Thursday and Friday, according to their team.
ISLAMABAD: Leaders and political workers must break through political, ethnic and regional divisions and unite to raise their voices against exploitation of natural resources in mountainous areas of the country along with social and livelihood challenges faced by people.
This was expressed by participants of a webinar who also urged the federal and provincial governments to use collective wisdom and develop a mechanism for social development.
The webinar, ‘Working Together to Empower Mountain Communities’ was organised by Development Communications Network (Devcom-Pakistan).
Being far away from the centres of decision-making, mountain communities, in totality, suffer from inadequate decision-making, they pointed out, adding that voices and concerns of people from the community along with other stakeholders must be taken into account while the government prepared plans for conservation and development.
Mountain communities remain underprivileged, say experts
Underline need to empower communities for sustainable development
February 08, 2021
ISLAMABAD:
There is a need to develop a mechanism to ensure the use of collective wisdom and a joint platform to work together for social development of mountain communities, speakers said at a webinar.
Though many people in mountainous regions remain deprived of access to health, education and many other civic amenities, women in particular lack equal rights as a person.
They said the mountain community leaders and political workers should come together beyond their political, ethnic and regional divide to voice against the exploitation of natural resources, social and livelihood challenges.