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سوداؔ جو بے خبر ہے وہی یاں کرے ہے عیش
مشکل بہت ہے ان کو جو رکھتے ہیں آگہی
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If they were some goraas or students of LUMS, they would have been rescued by a helicopter but alas they were too poor for that. They were drowned by the flooded stream crying for help for 5 hours!!
This is heart wrenching 😭😭💔💔
Oh dear lesser children of God!!
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So dear mainland Pakistanis how it feels to be with a restricted or no internet?? That's what we protest for most of the time in Gilgit-Baltistan. Access to internet is a fundamental human right and this right shouldn't be curbed or violated.
#Internet4GB
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Bored? GB
Shaadi? GB
Honeymoon? GB
All boys trip? GB
All girls trip? GB
Vlogs/Blogs? GB
Deputation? GB
Soft image? GB
Tourism hub? GB
Constitutional rights?: What's GB where is GB? What's the status? You have everything, what else you want, be thankful.
#GilgitBaltistan
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CSS exam should be conducted under the direct supervision of her majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom.
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This is how my work from home would look like if I had a working internet in my village Yasin in
#GilgitBaltistan
!!
#Internet4GilgitBaltistan
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Dear Mainland Pakistanis and others who widely share the exoticised images of
#GilgitBaltistan
,
Your exoticisation shouldn't be at the cost of our marginalisation!
Please help us in raising voice for better internet service in GB.
#Internet4GilgitBaltistan
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People who have been to
#GilgitBaltistan
and people who plan to visit us, please show some love by being part of our campaign
#Internet4GilgitBaltistan
Khali hamarey paharun, khanun, hospitality aur khubsoorati ki taareef karney sey hamarey masail hal nahi hongay!
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Sorry
#GilgitBaltistan
can't be a detox spot for privileged elites coming from downcountry and elsewhere. We can't afford your entertainment at the cost of our marginalisation. We need a better internet service to keep up with the rest of the world.
#Internet4GilgitBaltistan
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They say you are a king for a day when it's your wedding and they made sure I was one ♥️
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Dear GBians, don't expect and wait that mainland Pakistanis will raise their voice for your basic human rights. We have to do it ourselves. We aren't more than a tourist destination for them. They will only share their PDA and fancy vacation pictures exoticising our existence.
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This is an assistant commissioner leading a forcefully land grabbing mission in Gilgit in the name of Khalisa Sarkar. The local people resisted and he had to flee the scene.
STOP land grabbing in
#GilgitBaltistan
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What's done to Baloch protestors in Islamabad is a clear message to all the marginalised and oppressed people of the peripheries that our existence doesn't matter and we will be dehumanised to any extent to justify the existence of a paranoid state and it's oppressive machinery.
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The Baloch protestors camp in Islamabad is a million times better than the fancy academic conferences or seminars, literature festivals and talks etc happening in the city. Students should visit the camp if they genuinely want to learn something especially the marginalised ones.
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Ye jab aur injection mein kya faraq hai class k elava?
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Can we have a Marginalised Peoples Literature Festival since the mainstream literature festivals in Pakistan are more of populist and elitist props.
This is a serious idea and I would love to connect with people in this regard and turn this into a reality.
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Rich kids from Gilgit-Baltistan with an Islamabadi burger
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This is reported from Gilgit-Baltistan! Imagine Eid for the oppressed people!
ہائے قیامت 💔
اس گاڑی کے بدبخت ڈرائیور نے کچھ دیر قبل گلگت بلتستان میں 6 بچوں کو کچل دیا ہے، جن میں سے 3 موقعے پر دم توڑ گئے ہیں۔
بغیر نمبر پلیٹ والی گاڑی میں کوئی میجر سوار تھا۔
جب کہ علاقے کے مولوی فوراً صلح کیلئے ظالم کی حمایت میں میدان میں ہیں۔
@Rohshan_Din
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Ideally CSS 2021 batch should be like:
Alhamdulillah posted as AC Central London, ASP Edinburgh Scotland , AC Railways Birmingham etc.
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There are protests going on in all over Gilgit-Baltistan but mainstream Pakistani media won't show you any. The protests are against increasing wheat prices, land grabbing by the govt in the name of Khalisa sarkar, electricity and other basic rights and facilities.
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Listening to an indigenous climate activist from Chitral about his work and activism and I am finding all the academic jargon and neoliberal activism useless. For him, It's very basic, very simple, a sincere and genuine effort, a life style on daily basis not a corporate event.
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You don't need a PhD to stand against genocide, oppression, injustice and marginalisation.
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Books on Gilgit-Baltistan📢📢📢
I am trying to create a list of books on Gilgit-Baltistan which will be available for all of us as we all struggle to find literature on GB. Click on the given link to add the books. Retweet for maximum reach. Thanks!
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Gileetos and Chitralis are proudly sharing pictures of a white woman riding horse and playing polo in Chitral where local women can get killed for attempting g something like this.
Don't dare @ me with your apologist and if and but shit!!
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I am hosting a space on sexual abuse and exploitation tonight at 7:30 pm. Please share and join. This is an urgent and much needed discussion. Time to break the silence and taboos.
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I miss home but I can't go as I have to work from home and we don't have a better internet service in my village Yasin.
#GilgitBaltistan
#Internet4GilgitBaltistan
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My tweet about internet in GB has triggered toxic patriotism, entitlement, arrogance & ignorance of some mainland Pakistanis. Please read a page about the status of GB even Wikipedia. For others, showing empathy & understanding, thank you 🙏 and please educate ur fellow citizens
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This is a heart wrenching picture from the last valley Darkut in Yasin Gilgit-Baltistan. A female patient is transported for 5 hours on a stretcher to the nearest valley as roads are blocked for last 4 days in Darkut. This region is otherwise exoticised for winter sports etc.
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So one of my previous tweets about settlers in Gilgit-Baltistan triggered some mainland Pakistanis to the extend that they started mentioning my employer in their tweets. This isn't surprising. Instead of educating themselves on the status of GB, they are questioning why I live
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The first Burushaski Conference was a huge success!! Congratulations and thank you everyone who supported, participated and appreciated the efforts.
Hopefully, this will continue and grow.
#BurushaskiConference
#Burushaski
#Hunza
#Yasin
#Nagar
#SriNagar
#GilgitBaltistan
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The best part of farming I have always loved growing up in a village is the food/tea served in the fields. It's more than just a break! There are hopes, conversations, lessons, goals and much more. 💚❤️
#Yasinvalley
#GilgitBaltistan
#Summer
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People in Gilgit-Baltistan are protesting in freezing temperatures for wheat subsidy and mainland Pakistani media is completely ignoring the protests but don't worry soon the winter sports in GB will be all over the media!!
This is marginalisation!!
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This is Single National Curriculum, Grade 2 Social Studies published by Oxford University Press.
People of Gilgit-Baltistan speak different languages. Balti is spoken in Baltistan region. Mamtu and Chapshoro are more of commercial food than indigenous dishes.
#GilgitBaltistan
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Where is the LUMS Helicopter??
Locals use a wheel barrow to transport a female patient amid heavy snowfall in a remote village of District Kharmang in
#Baltistan
region.
#GilgitBaltistan
#Pakistan
#Health
Video by Local Media Insights
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What's up with mainland Pakistani tourists going to Gilgit-Baltistan with Las Vegas, Maimi, Amsterdam and Budapest fetishes and fantasies!! GB is NOT Europe neither it's America. These are literally remote villages. Respect the local norms, cultures and environment.
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Goray move to the mountains permanently while the locals need NOCs to access their villages and pastures.
Stop glamourising oppression!
#GilgitBaltistan
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When I say Gilgit-Baltistan is a colony, I am not exaggerating. A football field was not only encroached but the match was interrupted just for the entry of some officer who was apparently the chief guest.
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Malala sey nafrat, Cynthia se muhabbat! Pakistani nationalism in a NUTshell.
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Mainland Pakistani elite kids need to come out of their farmhouse mentality!
Gilgit-Baltistan is not a farmhouse that you own in the outskirts of a city and do whatever you want to. Also, the local adminstration needs to stop acting like private guards of these rich kids.
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When I raise questions, some people think this is how I see/love Hunza 😁😂
Bina sochey smajhey bey hangam devilopment ka anjam yahi hota hai. Locals must resist such nonsense.
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Kilao is a famous delight from Puniyal Ghizer, Gilgit-Baltistan & it is sold in the market as Hunza Chocolate. This is not a regional issue. It is simply Capitalism. Since Hunza is a brand now, everything is sold using the brand name resulting an erasure.
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Three major protests in Gilgit-Baltistan and you won't see any on mainstream Pakistani media.
1. Protests for wheat Subsidy
2. Protest of Karakurum University students against fee hike
3. Paramedics protesting for better service structure
All you see on is the exoticisation!
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Youth of Gilgit-Baltistan are exposing the real picture of basic necessities and facilities and the incompetencies of the relevant authorities and the structures including NGOs. Please support us in de-exoticisation and getting out the real picture of the valleys where there are
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Winter sports in Gilgit-Baltistan = Soft image of Pakistan
Winter protests for basic rights
like electricity in Gilgit-Baltistan = Terrorism
The two image theory in
#GilgitBaltistan
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It's high time that progressive youth from Gilgit-Baltistan should come together to establish an indigenous political party. Enough of mainstream political parties and neoliberal and apolitical forums, foundations and organisations. I would love to connect with youth across GB.
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The way it's asked for climate justice and reparations for Pakistan, people of Gilgit-Baltistan must ask the same from Pakistan. Most of the glaciers are located in GB and the recent mass tourism, highways, hotels and resorts by elite mainlanders and other human activities are a
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In addition to my extremely unpopular opinions, I am here to challenge all the fake, exoticised, exaggerated, dehumanised, and entitled views, news, opinions and other things about Gilgit-Baltistan.
Soft image ka theeka nahi liya hua hum ney!
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The Gilgit-Baltistan urge to become Pakistan. That's it. That's the Tweet.
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If I find some mainlander tourist doing this in my village, I am going to do the same to the person.
Rafay & Mujtaba, students of NUST Islb clearly distressing a goat, pulling its legs & all others are also having a laugh on their trip to Kumrat Valley. I hope they will keep the grin as this act is now plastered all over the Internet. Retweet!!
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Dear Mainland Pakistanis,
Without peace in Gilgit-Baltistan, your trips, tours and summer breaks aren't possible. Even your destination weddings can't happen. So raise your voice for peace in GB. We are more than just a tourist spot. Our lives matter!
#Peace4GilgitBaltistan
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There is a need to speak extensively & openly about the hypocrite men from GB who want to be friends with women, hang out, have them on social media & then flex about all this while controling the women in their families, sects & even regions to not do any of this!
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It's Ismailis not Agakhanis. The later is a prejudiced & isolationist term that doesn't include a whole history, civilisation & much more of the community. It's problematic even if used by the Ismailis themselves. It's a result of ignorance, insecurity & misrepresentation.
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Mainland Pakistani media won't show you this! 👇
Protests are gaining momentum in Gilgit-Baltistan in response to rising subsidized wheat prices and concerns about constitutional rights. Thousands are engaged in street demonstrations, marking the 20th day of protests in Skardu.
#GilgitBaltistan
#GB_STRIKE
#Karakoram
#protests
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In Gilgit-Baltistan we are deprived of fundamental rights & basic needs like healthcare, job opportunities, higher education & when we travel in search of the basic needs we are killed on the way. Our people deserve much much better than this. We are more than just fancy posters.
8 killed, 26 injured, after passenger bus is attacked by terrorists on Karakoram Highway
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Hello DC!
Just saw this! What should we call DCs now? His Royal Highness??🤔🤔😄
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Chitral shouldn't be another ground for strategic wars or games and militarisation. Chitral deserves much more than how it has been treated so far even being constitutionally part of Pakistan.
#Chitral
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I know I will be cancelled for my opinion on this but here it is:
We need to get over this colonial hangover. People need to know what colonialism was and what it did to the world and how people are still suffering due to colonial legacies. GB is one of the best examples.
Noorima Rehan, representing Pakistan, will be performing live from Ghulkin, Gojal at King Charles III's Coronation Concert in London. The confirmed line-up includes artists such as Katy Perry and Tom Cruise.
.
#NoorimaRehan
#KINGCHARLESCORONATION
#London
#Hunza
#IMN
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There is this news reported from Gilgit that a teenager had to cross a river to save himself from sexual assault. The boy is reported to be a student of class 8.
#GilgitBaltistan
#sexualharassment
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Most of them are us the people of Gilgit-Baltistan!
Fifteen million people worldwide are at risk of glacial lake flooding, with two million of them in Pakistan.
— in pictures
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Not just Hunza, every village in Gilgit-Baltistan seems to turning into a concrete jungle. This picture is from Yasin valley. There is an urgent need of some regulations!!
#nature
#ClimateCrisis
#tourism
#pollution
#CAPITALISM
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Don't trust these fake/paid accounts. The bigger picture is different from this highly exoticised one. This isn't even true about the 5% of girls in Gilgit-Baltistan. In many regions girls are not even allowed to go out of the house, not even a school.
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My dream is to establish a Music School in Yasin to preserve and promote the traditional local music. The school will be named after the legend Ustad Hajat Qabool. Would love to connect with people interested in this project for ideas and support.
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I wish mainland Pakistanis would show similar interest in constitutional and basic human rights in Gilgit-Baltistan as they are showing in the sensational news of clerics jumping into the fire.
We will remember all of this!!
#Peace4GilgitBaltistan
#FreeHasnainRamal
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First Burushaski conference in Karachi.
Burushaski is an isolated language spoken in three valleys in
#GilgitBaltistan
, Hunza, Yasin and Nagar. The language is endangered and the conference is part of the preservation efforts.
Join us if you are in Karachi.
#Burushaski
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Mainland Pakistani elites posing for a drone shoot in a destination wedding in Hunza!
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اگر خود کشی حرام ہے تو پھر خودکشی تک پہنچانے والے محرکات بھی حرام ہیں، یہ معاشرہ حرام ہے، غیر معقول توقعات حرام ہے، مادیت پسندی اور لالچ حرام ہے، جھوٹ اور دھوکہ حرام ہے، رشوت اور کرپشن حرام ہے، وسائل اور مواقعوں کی غیر منصفانہ تقسیم حرام ہے، ناانصافی اور ظلم پر خاموشی حرام ہے۔
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Hello DC is gone private now!! 😂😂😂
Someone please tell him it's not his personal account.
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IT IS A PROVINCE OR IT IS NOT. WHAT THE DUCK ON EARTH IS A PROVISIONAL PROVINCE?
#GilgitBaltistan
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The current political turmoil in Pakistan is a very clear point for Gilgit-Baltistan to move away from mainstream political parties in Pakistan & to start indigenous local parties & politics based on local issues. It will be a beginning to exercise the right of self-determination
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Candidates in Hunza removing their posters and other material used for election campaign is a trend everyone else should follow. Keep your environment clean and be responsible!
#GBElections2020
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After Mullahs in Iran, Mullahs in Gilgit-Baltistan are going crazy. They have come out against this women sports gala happening in Gilgit.
#GilgitBaltistan
#WomenSportsGala
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Will the two universities in Gilgit-Baltistan arrange seminars and rallies on sexual abuse, exploitation and harassment, the way they have been arranging seminars and rallies supporting the military??
#GilgitBaltistan
#SexualAbuse
#Childabuse
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Once again I was told that I should be thankful that I don't need a visa or a permit to be able to work or live in Karachi because I stated the fact about the limbo constitutional status of Gilgit-Baltistan. Meanwhile, my villagers are protesting for electricity in -10 degrees.
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Amid obsession with tourism and all, there is a climatic catastrophe threatening the mountain communities in Gilgit-Baltistan which nobody really cares about.
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Please never take a Gilgiti, PTV and overseas Pakistani serious when it comes to the national politics.
Thank you!
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For a while I thought it's a scene from Lawrence of Arabia 😂
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Instead of educating themselves and try to understand the case and status of GB, some mainland Pakistanis are lecturing us on how to be hopeful & positive. For last 70 years that's all we have been, hopeful & positive. Has thr evr been such a positive, peaceful & hopeful protest?
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My mehmannawazi is over! Getting down to the business!!
Glad that farming was part of my upbringing!
#Yasinvalley
#farming
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The classic village meal!! Vegetable (Shuwachal), Lassi and bread.
#Yasinvalley
#SummerVibes
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People of Gilgit-Baltistan need to know, realise & accept the fact that their basic rights, resources and basic facilities are more important & crucial than these newly emerging winter sports festivals. As winters become even harder with no power, drinking water & access issues.
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Gilgit-Baltistan is the unpaid soft image consultant of Pakistan.
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You have seen, shared and exoticised many pictures of young students in Gilgit-Baltistan. This is just another picture but this time they aren't dancing. This time they are protesting against the assassination of their teacher.
#JusticeForNiatAmin
#GilgitBaltistan
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Mark my words, there will be a day when people of Gilgit-Baltistan would be saying 'kash yahan tourism naa hota'. The long term negative impacts are yet to hit us since the region isn't ready and doesn't have an infrastructure and planning for this industry.
#GilgitBaltistan
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Finally managed to get a hard copy. Why is it so hard and expensive to get books in this country!! I know the answer but still!!
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Honourable Minister,
Please don't just cash the pictures. Please support and specifically FUND these girls and such activities too. We had collect donations for these girls to be able to get here.
Thank you!
Little girls from Ghizer geared up for Ice Hockey match 👧💪
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