Karakoram Highway KKH

Rakaposhi Mountain(Gulmat Nagir)

Pakistan Beauty

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Gilgit Things To Do

Just 2 days after i arrived here, my friend ask me to follow him to this area called PHANDER VALLEY for fishing. He said TROUT FISH can be easily found there and the taste is good. So hmm......whenever anyone say about good food, i wana try them so we hire a car with a driver and went up to PHANDER VALLEY. Its taking 1.5 hours to GHIZER and about 3 hours to phander from GHIZER. winding road and bumpy roads and sometimes there are landslides in between the stretch then you will have to slow down. My friends's sister and niece vomitted and hving headache because they are not used to travel so far with such condition hahahah.Me? I am enjoying the ride...even though i was having stomachache and dierrhea...cool day.When we arrived, rent the fishing rods and start fishing. Its a unique experience, very different way of fishing..A MUST TRY. I slept on the grass by the riverbank because i was so sleepy hahahahah..till i hear some noise of the donkeys and goats nearby hahahaha What a great out door activities! You can ask someone to fry the fish there itself to taste it. Tasted good

China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue: Shaping the fate of the world

"Despite differences between our two countries [...], there exist conditions, common will, the necessity and broad basis for enhancing China-U.S. dialogue and cooperation on these areas.” Dai Bingguo on CRI

“I have no illusions that the United States and China will agree on every issue, nor choose to see the world in the same way. But that only makes dialogue more important.” President Barack Obama, The New York Times

This week saw the first session of the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) in Washington, DC. Media reports, most of which described the event as largely uneventful, highlighted a pledge by both sides to seek more balanced economic growth as its most significant outcome.

The meeting between the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases also yielded a memorandum of understanding which promises more cooperation on climate change, energy and the environment, according to several media sources. However, in the end everything seems to still rest on the good will of the two governments, as no firm goals were set, Reuters India points out.

The meeting was hailed in various media as "unprecedented" in the history of China-US relations, which have always followed a pattern of alternating highs and lows. The talks allowed for honest and candid exchanges on a wide range of issues, even if the two sides didn't always see eye to eye, President Obamasaid, according to the New York Times. And issues of contention do remain, including emission caps, which both refuse to accept before the other, AP, among others, writes.

On the economic front, the two global powers pledged to fight protectionism and seek stable growth once the financial crisis eases. Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishanpromised China would work to fuel growth through domestic demand instead of relying on exports that drive up the US trade deficit, China Daily says. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in turn assured that the US would rein in its ballooning budget deficit, Bloomberg writes.

Other issues addressed in the talks included international challenges such as North Korea and Iran, as well as counterterrorism, Xinhua writes.

If these talks, which could greatly impact the future of the planet, had any global significance remains to be seen - in December in Copenhagen at the latest.

Hunza

The ruling family of Hunza is called Ayeshe (heavenly), from the following circumstance. The two states of Hunza and Nager were formerly one, ruled by a branch of the Shahreis, the ruling family of Gilgit whose seat of government was Nager. Tradition relates that Mayroo Khan, apparently the first Mohommedan Thum of Nager some 200 years after the introduction of the religion of Islam to Gilgit, married a daughter of of who bore him twin sons named Moghlot and Girkis. From the former the present ruling family of Nager is descended. The twins are said to have shown hostility to one another from birth. Their father seeing this and unable to settle the question of succession, divided his state between them, giving to Girkis the north, and to Moghlot the south, bank of the river