A curtain raiser for Kashmir Life's Humaira Nabi directed 15-spiosde show Kashmir: The Silk Route Tales presented by Iqra Akhoon.

In September 1949, prominent Nationalist officials posted to the far northwestern province of Xinjiang surrendered to the Chinese Communists without a fight. The approximately 71,000 Nationalist ...

"I felt that Xinjiang's ethnic diversity and integration have a profound history after visiting the Yarkand relics. It's gratifying to see these traditions being inherited and carried forward in ...

These passes lie on the watershed between the Hunza river flowing into the Indus system in India and the Qara Chukar river flowing into the Yarkand system in Sinkiang. From the Khunjerab Pass the ...

To propagate the Buddhist philosophy in Ladakh, Gilgit, Yarkand, Kashgar, and other regions, Kashmiri monks and scholars bravely traversed formidable mountains. (P N Ganhar) Within India ...

It then shows pictures of martyrs indicated as "al-Turkistani", or men from Turkestan, the name many Uighurs use for Xinjiang. One of the men speaking has an accent from Yarkand, close to the old Silk ...

The Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission, based upon the Collections and Notes of the late Dr. F. Stoliczka. Published by Order of the Government of India. (Calcutta, 1878–79.) ...

Historians have tended to view the Ch'ing empire's nineteenth-century history as a period of decline. Europeans took concessions and territory. Rebels shattered the peace within. But in the 1800s the ...

One of the men speaking has an accent from Yarkand, close to the old Silk Road city of Kashgar in Xinjiang's southern Uighur heartland, one of the people who reviewed the video said. Another fighter ...