Iftikhar Ali

Karakoram International University · Faculty of Social Sciences

Land-based livelihoods in Pakistan's high mountain regions are highly vulnerable to climate change due to the complex interactions between people and their natural environment. This study uses a mixed-method approach to explore how climate change affects land-based livelihoods in the high mountain Nagar District, Pakistan. Data were collected using...

The contemporary demographic challenge, climate change is the most noticeable phenomenon in the high mountains of Pakistan. This study was intended to assess the smallholder's perceptions of climate change and its impacts on land-based livelihoods in the Nagar district located in western Karakoram of Pakistan. This study employed a mixed method app...

Economic corridors are vital for the economic development of countries and regions across the world. Economic corridors are the main sources of connection for the economic agents across defined geographies. China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is considered among world huge corridors, in terms of its investment, geographical outreach and project...

Stakeholder Salience (SS) framework is a tried and tested tool for stakeholder analysis in diverse policy settings. However, the original SS framework provides insights into whether a stakeholder possesses power, legitimacy, or urgency without indicating the level and nature of these attributes. To enrich our understanding of stakeholder salience f...

This study seeks to examine the smallholder's climate change adaptation in land-based livelihoods in the high mountainous Western Karakoram region of Pakistan. By interviewing 430 randomly selected smallholders through a structured household survey this study found that over the past 20 year's majority (88.6 %) of smallholders have perceived signif...

This paper investigates the variation in individual-level social capital concerning different socio-demographic factors in the northern high mountainous Gilgit district of Pakistan. This district is part of the high mountainous Gilgit-Baltistan, province situated in the extreme north of Pakistan on the intersection of Karakoram, Hindu Kush, and Him...

This paper identifies the various determinants of child labor and analyzes the variation in child labor with different socio-economic and demographic factors in the northern Karakoram region of Pakistan. For this paper, the data related to the different socio-economic and demographic variables of child labor have been used from the Gilgit-Baltistan...

Women's participation in higher education is mainly attributed to varying socioeconomic and cultural practices. By employing a survey and focus group discussion, we ascertained the social and cultural determinants and the impact on female higher education in the high mountainous rural areas of Gilgit-Baltistan province of Pakistan. Through analysin...

Often the government and the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are criticised for their poor performances in delivering services particularly in rural areas. However, there has been limited research on the assessment of their relative performances in service delivery as well as on the perceptions of people on the quality of such service deliver...

Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) is one of the major contributors to the fresh fruit industry in Pakistan however, the production of fresh fruits is low as compare to other parts of the country. This low production is attributed to several factors like remoteness, poor infrastructure (road), inadequate local markets and traditional practices by farmers, etc....

Economic corridors are vital for the economic development of countries and regions across the world. Economic corridors are the main sources of connection for the economic agents across defined geographies. China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is considered among world huge corridors, in terms of its investment, geographical outreach and project...

This study was aimed to identify and examine the physical and geographical impediments to female higher education in the high mountainous rural Nagar district of Pakistan. District Nagar is one of the ten districts of Gilgit-Baltistan province located in the extreme north of Pakistan. The study adopted a descriptive research design. Both primary an...