Gilgit Baltistan has garnered much attention and praise in recent years due to its eye-catching natural beauty. CNN has put it in the global top 25 where to go list of 2025, which is an unexpected dose of happiness for the mass of GB. It possesses the world five eight-thousandser mountains, also greater than 33 states of the world, nearly 733 villages are located within the mountains of GB. More astonishingly, Indus River and Shyoke River flow through these valleys. Such vastness is not common in any other place of the world. HKH has its own unique significance.

The region’s geography is at the confluence of the Karakoram, Himalaya and Hindu Kush ranges and is now confronting a polycrisis of climate volatility, rapid urbanisation and an unprecedented tourism boom. These forces usually forecast prosperity, but they also threaten the fragile mountain environment and the social fabric that has held local communities together for centuries. What happens in the next decade will determine whether Gilgit-Baltistan emerges as a model of sustainable development or doom due to its own systemic and unheeded policies, coupled by unsustainable practices. The road ahead of GB would be rutted, rocky and slow if the current practices remained unchanged for the next couple of years.

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Climate change has shackled the foundation of the contemporary era and fanned fear among residents of Gilgit Baltistan. In Skardu, which has become the epicentre of the wider........

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