Correction to: Inventory and Quantitative Valuation of Geological and Geomorphological Sites from Gilgit‑Baltistan, Northern Pakistan

This paper examines the role of participation, co-production and community management in a random sample of 50 rural and urban water systems under the Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP) in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. It looks at the role of an NGO (the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat) in co-production, and how this model of community-based water management (CBWM) contributes to the discussion in the literature. Specifically, the paper considers whether the largely rural WASEP model can be successfully scaled up and scaled out to urban centres, drawing on evidence from a survey of over 2,500 rural and urban households. The findings illustrate the importance of participation in the successful delivery of water systems. However, higher levels of rural participation are related to specifically rural features, including the smaller size and more limited diversity of communities. The paper concludes that new methods may be required for the transfer of CBWM to urban centres with much larger, more diverse and growing populations.

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Morphometric Analysis of Gilgit River Basin in Mountainous Region of Gilgit-Baltistan Province, Northern Pakistan

Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection ◽

10.4236/gep.2017.57008 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 05 (07) ◽

pp. 70-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Karamat Ali ◽

Roshan M. Bajracharya ◽

Bishal Kumar Sitaula ◽

Nani Raut ◽

Hriday Lal Koirala

Keyword(s):

River Basin ◽

Morphometric Analysis ◽

Mountainous Region ◽

Northern Pakistan ◽

Gilgit Baltistan

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Assessment of seismic hazard of roller compacted concrete dam site in Gilgit-Baltistan of northern Pakistan

Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration ◽

10.1007/s11803-021-2042-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 621-630

Author(s):

Shahzada Khurram ◽

Perveiz Khalid ◽

Jahanzeb Qureshi ◽

Zia Ud Din

Keyword(s):

Seismic Hazard ◽

Northern Pakistan ◽

Concrete Dam ◽

Roller Compacted Concrete ◽

Roller Compacted Concrete Dam ◽

Dam Site ◽

Gilgit Baltistan

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Cultural Tourism and the Wellbeing of Local Citizens

10.4018/978-1-7998-7335-8.ch006 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 130-154

Author(s):

Saranjam Baig ◽

Arifa Shabbnum ◽

Ahmad Arslan

Keyword(s):

Rural Areas ◽

Cultural Tourism ◽

Significant Rise ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Host Community ◽

Local Culture ◽

Primary Data ◽

Northern Pakistan ◽

Cultural Conservation ◽

Gilgit Baltistan

Cultural tourism is an increasingly visible trend in the tourism industry. The chapter is one of the first academic studies to specifically analyze the possible impacts of cultural tourism on the local culture itself and the wellbeing of the host community while highlighting cultural conservation as a mediator. The study utilizes primary data collected from rural areas in the Himalayan Gilgit Baltistan region in Northern Pakistan. This region has experienced a significant rise in cultural tourism due to China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). As a result, there has been a significant and visible development of touristic facilities in the region. Hence, there is a visible shift from earlier tourism, which was mostly linked to mountaineering adventure, to more relatively mass cultural tourism. The results suggest that cultural conservation serves as a partial mediator and that cultural tourism tends to positively and significantly influence the host community's wellbeing, and cultural conservation partially mediates this relationship.

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Deficiencies in Project Governance: An Analysis of Infrastructure Development Program

Administrative Sciences ◽

10.3390/admsci9010009 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 9 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Asadullah Khan ◽

Muhammad Waris ◽

Ishak Ismail ◽

Mirza Sajid ◽

Mehfooz Ullah ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Portfolio Management ◽

Stakeholder Management ◽

Development Program ◽

Critical Element ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

Northern Pakistan ◽

Project Governance ◽

Distribution and abundance of ticks infesting livestock population along Karakorum highway from Mansehra to Gilgit, Pakistan

Journal of the Hellenic Veterinary Medical Society ◽

10.12681/jhvms.15556 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 68 (1) ◽

pp. 51 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

MUHAMMAD SOHAIL SAJID ◽

ZAFAR IQBAL ◽

ASIM SHAMIM ◽

RAO MUHAMMAD SIDDIQUE ◽

MUHAMMAD JAWAD UL HASSAN ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Tick Infestation ◽

Sampling Techniques ◽

Northern Pakistan ◽

Snowball Sampling ◽

Livestock Population ◽

Northern Areas ◽

Husbandry System ◽

Karakoram Highway ◽

Gilgit Baltistan ◽

Tick Burden

Ticks and tick-borne infections pose major economic threats to the livestock industry throughout the world. The present study reports the point prevalence of ticks in the free range livestock population of the plain and hilly areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Mansehra, Haripur, Shangala, Kohistan), and Gilgit Baltistan (Diamer, Gilgit, Astor) along the Karakoram highway. Through convenient and snowball sampling techniques, a total of 813 animals, consisting of 232 sheep, 163 cattle, 365 goats and 53 buffaloes were screened for their tick burden. During the study, the two tick species identified were Hyalomma anatolicum and Rhipicephalus microplus. The overall prevalence of tick infestation among the screened livestock was 75.03%, with the highest distribution in sheep (81.47%) followed, in order, by cattle (77.91%), goats (72.05%) and buffalo (58.49%). The district-wise prevalence of ticks was the highest in Haripur (85.58), followed, in order, by Gilgit (83.10%), Mansehra (81.14%), Batagram (81.05%), Shangala (77.78%), Kohistan (75.38%), Diamer (72.28%) and Astor (32.22%). The prevalence of ticks was found to be higher (85.67%) in younger livestock than adults (66.44%), and in females (80.33%) than males (66.44%). The present study provides the first report of the tick distribution in higher altitudes of northern Pakistan and confirms the presence of Hyalomma and Rhipicephalus ticks in the plains, as well as the hilly geoclimates of Pakistan. Furthermore, the data on risk factors allows us to make recommendations to restructure the existing husbandry system of northern areas of Pakistan with the aim of reducing the tick burden on livestock.

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Is the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor an Opportunity or a Threat for Small and Micro-Entrepreneurs? Empirical Evidence from Northern Pakistan

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12051727 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 1727 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Saranjam Baig ◽

Mir Qasim ◽

Li Xuemei ◽

Khalid Mehmood Alam

Keyword(s):

Small Firms ◽

Firm Growth ◽

Easy Access ◽

Small Enterprises ◽

Large Firms ◽

Northern Pakistan ◽

Academic Scholarship ◽

Rural Economies ◽

Micro And Small Enterprises ◽

Gilgit Baltistan

Are the mega-projects an opportunity or threat for micro and small firms? This question has rarely been examined in the literature. Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) have always been at the forefront, playing an important role in the development of rural economies in developing countries like Pakistan. Since the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project has been initiated, northern Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan) has witnessed a huge tourist inflow. As a result, the mushrooming of businesses along the CPEC route is a new phenomenon. The increasing trends in tourism inflow on one side offer new opportunities for MSEs while, on the other side, it increases the competition level among the firms. In the background, this research aims at contributing to existing academic scholarship on whether increasing competition is healthy for the growth and sustainability of MSEs or it might challenge their future progress. To examine this question, we carried out field surveys. Through questionnaires, we collected data for 280 micro and small firms operating in the tourism sector along the CPEC route. The study investigates current and future prospects of micro and small enterprises in the region, given that the CPEC is fostering tourism, which has its effects on the allied industries as well. The study relies on the Jovanovic (1982) model of firm growth and theory of market participation for its theoretical foundation and uses a logistic regression model as the estimation strategy. The findings suggest that the CPEC is not the only opportunity for tourism-related micro and small enterprises but also helpful for the growth of medium and large firms. The implications are that if MSEs could not prepare themselves to compete, there is a chance that medium and large firms would replace them. Growth of MSEs is conditional on easy access to finance and borrowings.

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HEALTHCARE CHALLENGES IN GILGIT BALTISTAN: THE WAY FORWARD

Pakistan Journal of Public Health ◽

10.32413/pjph.v7i2.47 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 113-116

Author(s):

Amimah Fatima Asif

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Healthcare Delivery ◽

Medical Personnel ◽

Political Regime ◽

Quality Healthcare ◽

Accident And Emergency ◽

Long Time ◽

The Common ◽

Gilgit Baltistan ◽

And Child Health

Quality healthcare delivery is the bedrock to exponentially accelerate the development of a country. Unfortunately, in Pakistan healthcare has been neglected since a long time, with the common man bearing the brunt of this acute situation. There are critical challenges in health care, with paucity of trained human resource and deficit of regulated infrastructure and service delivery being the predominant dilemmas. Primary and secondary healthcare are in an unseemly state, to say the least. Maternal and child health care, accident, and emergency departments and mental health are among the most undermined and forsaken areas of healthcare, primarily in the far flung Gilgit Baltistan region of Pakistan. The only way forward is if the political regime, administration and the medical personnel work in concurrence to revise the health infrastructure of the country.

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