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“Pakistan”

Editors picks45
Supports3
Stories6
Dossiers1
freedom of press
July 13th, 2019
Curbs on press expose Pakistan’s view on media pluralism
topics:Humans
by:Shadi Khan Saif
The recent curbs in Pakistan are absolutely unacceptable violation of the principles of media pluralism and independence.
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green pakistan
June 29th, 2019
Why isn’t the green trend resonating in Pakistan?
topics:Humans, Nature, Economy
by:Shadi Khan Saif
The pivotal environmental issues in Pakistan are not given even the least attention they deserve.
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pakistan army
June 15th, 2019
Re-branded colonialism imposed on tribal area in Pakistan
by:Shadi Khan Saif
The state forces in Pakistan need to realise they cannot impose their will on people with force for long.
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Bride trafficking
June 08th, 2019
Marginalised Christian girls suffer under Sino-Pak ties
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Brought together by the 20th Century geopolitical scenario in the region, China and Pakistan have bolstered their one-sided alliance over the years.
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piler
June 04th, 2019
Piler promote socio-economic equality in Pakistan
type:Education, NGO
by:Yair Oded
Support Piler in their effort to combat social and economic inequalities in Pakistan.
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Gulalai Ismail
May 25th, 2019
Security establishment in Pakistan moves to silence dissent
by:Shadi Khan Saif
In a pathetic show of discrimination and hypocrisy, the security establishment in Pakistan has booked a prominent female activist.
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pakistan child poverty
May 18th, 2019
Millions of Pakistanis grieve under elitist economic policies
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Pakistani citizens seem caught in a vicious cycle of economic policies cobbled under the shadows of often misperceived regional geostrategic ambitions.
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pakistan army
May 05th, 2019
Military dents democracy in Pakistan yet again
by:Shadi Khan Saif
The never-ending intrusion of Pakistan’s powerful army in political affairs continues to dent and undermine democratic principles in the country.
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Narendra Modi elections
April 13th, 2019
The dark powers of money undermining democracy
by:Shadi Khan Saif
With millions of eligible Indian voters set to choose their future government through ballots, the power of money overshadows the system of governance.
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PAKISTAN-SOCIETY
April 06th, 2019
Take a part in ending violence against women in Pakistan
by:Yair Oded
Aurat Foundation works to end violence against women in Pakistan and promote socio-political equality between the sexes. Support their mission today.
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violence against women
March 31st, 2019
Pakistan’s denial of devastating women safety record
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Pakistan ranks among the five worst countries for women in the world.
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television pakistan
March 03rd, 2019
The thin line between waging and reporting a war
by:Shadi Khan Saif
In the wake of flared-up armed tension between nuclear-capable India and Pakistan, impartial, independent and critical reporting became the initial victim.
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water india sikh
February 23rd, 2019
The simmering water war in South Asia
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Pakistan — like India — is facing a grim situation in regard to managing its water resources for the rapidly growing population.
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kashmir
February 14th, 2019
Kashmir burns again
by:Shadi Khan Saif
The pressing resentment among the Kashmiris is overshadowed in exchange of barbs between Pakistan and India after a deadly suicide attack.
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pakistan
February 09th, 2019
Vibrant grass-root movement battling state oppression in Pakistan
by:Shadi Khan Saif
PTM gained nationwide attention after the extrajudicial killing of a young Pashtun male model in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi.
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Andile Phehlukwayo
January 26th, 2019
Racism is not acceptable in sports
by:Shadi Khan Saif
The captain of Pakistan’s national Cricket team, Sarfaraz Ahmed, delivered a racial slur against the South African batsman Andile Phehlukwayo - no way!
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Baluchistan
January 04th, 2019
Pakistan’s forgotten coal miners
by:Shadi Khan Saif
There are around 250 coal mines across the Pakistan Baluchistan province, employing 60 thousand workers. Those with no rights and no protection.
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Pakistan Pashtun Rally
December 14th, 2018
Pakistan bans foreign media covering indigenous rights movement
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Pakistani authorities are scrutinising media coverage of a Pashtun rights movement, blocking VOA websites and filing police cases against journalists.
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karachi shops
November 22nd, 2018
Livelihood of thousands of Pakistanis compromised
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Heavy machinery guarded by armed officers and municipal officials have bulldozed hundreds of shops in the heart of Pakistan’s biggest city Karachi.
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Tahir Khan Dawar
November 16th, 2018
Is Tahir Dawar the Khashoggi of Pakistan?
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Tahir Khan Dawar, who was kidnapped from Islamabad’s G-10/4 area in Oct, was murdered in Afghanistan and his tortured body was found in Dur Baba district.
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asia bibi
October 31st, 2018
A legal milestone by not bowing to religious hardliners
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Christian mother Asia Bibi was released Oct 31 from Pakistan’s death row after the nation’s Supreme Court reversed her 2010 conviction of blasphemy.
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Manan Bashir Wani
October 18th, 2018
What’s driving Kashmiri youths to desperate measures?
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Manan Bashir Wani’s killing calls for soul-searching not only in Kashmir, but New Delhi and Islamabad.
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Afghan Refugees
August 27th, 2018
Snubbing the foreign policy that shapes internal affairs
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Pakistan – the country of some 200 million inhabitants – has a lot to gain from a positive foreign policy at the regional level.
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pakistan
August 24th, 2018
#finishthirst in Pakistan
type:Donation, NGO
by:Yair Oded
Help WaterAid end the water crisis in Pakistan
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August 19th, 2018
Freedom of speech is not guaranteed in 'Naya' Pakistan
by:Shadi Khan Saif
With a new president in power and a hopeful new Pakistan, will the curtailing of free media finally be over in the country?
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pakistan election
July 29th, 2018
When very little is enough to begin empowering women
by:Shadi Khan Saif
A newly issued notice in Pakistan's election saw a compulsory 10 percent female turnout per voting poll or disqualification – marking a new era for women.
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baluchistan
July 15th, 2018
Is residual terrorism striking back in Pakistan?
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Another ISIS attack in Pakistan has left 130 people dead and puts pressure on the country to become more vocal about its resistance to the Taliban.
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pakistan army
July 01st, 2018
Is democracy a one time affair in Pakistan?
by:Shadi Khan Saif
With Pakistan heading to elections on July 25, will the free media stand up to military threats and keep its citizens informed as they head to the polls?
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eid
June 17th, 2018
Pakistan’s water woes are evolving into a grim crisis
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Many citizens in Karachi, Pakistan’s biggest city, have no water to have a bath and in some places not enough to even drink.
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women pakistan protest
May 20th, 2018
The unending quest for honour through horror in Pakistan
by:Shadi Khan Saif
A teenaged Italian girl of Pakistani origin has been rescued from her parents and other members of her family who forced her to abort her child.
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pakistan army
April 23rd, 2018
Forcing free media into submission in Pakistan
by:Shadi Khan Saif
The dominant military establishment in Pakistan has practically been at the helm of affairs throughout its history.
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Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU)
October 29th, 2017
Pakistan’s barren nurseries of future leaders
by:Shadi Khan Saif
With feudalism and nepotism dominating Pakistan, no wonder there isn’t a prominent presence of locally educated bright minds on the political arena.
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dr. ruth
August 11th, 2017
The last word is love: In memoriam of Dr. Ruth Pfau
by:Shadi Khan Saif
The woman who became known as "Pakistan's Mother Teresa" for devoting her life to saving others' lives has died at the age of 87.
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afghanisatn parliament
July 16th, 2017
The dilemma of undermining justice for politics
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Two high-profile political leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan are facing courts in cases of different yet grim nature, but there are already signs [...]
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Pakistan-Army
May 05th, 2017
Pakistan Army picks deadly militant for propaganda
by:Shadi Khan Saif
The ever-powerful army in Pakistan has orchestrated yet another strategic move of using a ruthless militant for propaganda purposes that has left the [...]
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mob-lynching
April 21st, 2017
Mob justice continues
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Days after the horrific mob-lynching of a young student in Pakistan over alleged blasphemy, at least two more cases of the sort have surfaced in the Muslim-majority country of over 200 [...]
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Abdul Wali Khan University
April 15th, 2017
Law of the jungle; student lynched over alleged blasphemy
by:Shadi Khan Saif
A young and promising student in Pakistan has been lynched by an angry mob of his fellow students over alleged blasphemy this week. Mashal Kha, the [...]
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Pashtun
March 03rd, 2017
Pakistan and alienation of its own citizens
by:Shadi Khan Saif
The provincial assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkwa in Pakistan this week approved a resolution condemning racial profiling of a certain ethnicity in the country. It [...]
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granddads car 1
February 27th, 2017
My Granddad’s car
topics:Humans, Arts
by:Federica Tedeschi
The exhibition, which took place last month at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery in Greenwich (London), followed an overwhelmingly positive response to the previous display at the New Art Exchange [...]
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Workers-21
February 03rd, 2017
Left to live on the edge
by:Shadi Khan Saif
After a spate of deadly accidents at the Gadani shipbreaking yard in Pakistan-one of the biggest in the world, the government has simply banned scrapping work there, leaving thousands of workers jobless. With the [...]
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January 20th, 2017
Pakistan: Defining moment for freedom of speech in digital age
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Civil society activists in Pakistan are pretty much convinced the government forces are behind the suspicious disappearance of five prominent [...]
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January 11th, 2017
Four human rights bloggers abducted in Pakistan
by:FAIRPLANET
Four campaigners for human rights and religious freedom have gone missing in Pakistan. The four men, Salman Haider, a well-known poet and academic, and bloggers Waqas [...]
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kunduz_afghanistantoday
January 06th, 2017
Kept in the Stone Age
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Before raiding to topple the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the then U.S. President George W. Bush reportedly threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" after the [...]
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climate deal
December 30th, 2016
Pakistan’s blind quest for nuclear energy
by:Shadi Khan Saif
vernment in Pakistan inaugurated the country’s fourth nuclear power plant Chashma III this month as the desperate quest for electricity in the energy-starved nation [...]
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November 30th, 2016
Afghan Mona Lisa behind bars in Pakistan
topics:Humans
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Sharbat Gula was a teenage girl when Steve McCurry, world acclaimed photographer for the National Geographic, took her photograph in a refugee camp in Pakistan [...]
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a school in pakistan
November 18th, 2016
Pakistan’s Children of a Lesser God!
by:Shadi Khan Saif
The social media in Pakistan has been gripped by a rather disturbing video of a man flogging mercilessly a transgender woman. The video showed a man pinning the transgender woman face down on a bed with [...]
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journalist-danger
November 12th, 2016
Journalism’s raison d'être under threat in Pakistan
by:Shadi Khan Saif
A government fact finding commission in Pakistan has charged a correspondent of the country’s leading newspaper of fabricating a report that was widely seen as a [...]
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July 27th, 2016
A struggle for identity in Pakistan
topics:Humans
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Firstly, one of the four provinces in Pakistan set aside funds worth some $ 2 million for the welfare of the marginalized transgender community. This [...]
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IraqiRefugee-Damascus
September 22nd, 2015
Middle East as a case study
by:Gurmeet Singh
There are many isolated refugee crises around the world. As the crisis in the Middle East spills over into headlines, we look into the recent history of Afghanistan to understand [...]
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Heatwave in Pakistan
August 06th, 2015
Poor city planning in Pakistan
topics:Humans, Nature
by:Shadi Khan Saif
Extreme weather and poor city planning claimed hundreds of lives in Pakistan City’s main public hospital; Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Center (JPMC) and three other relatively small government [...]
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images
February 11th, 2015
The Louvre, Guggenheim and NYU do little for human rights
by:Neelo Aysha Scholz
Some of the poorest people lured to the U.A.E. with the promise of a job are being blatantly exploited in constructing the Louvre, Guggenheim and NYU [...]
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Polio vaccines given to children near the Afghan border
November 28th, 2014
Pakistan's polio crisis worsens - and the militant attacks aren't helping
by:Vanessa Ellingham
Pakistan, which accounts for 80 percent of the world’s polio cases in 2014, may become the last country where the polio virus remains endemic and [...]
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October 13th, 2014
What is the Nobel Peace Prize good for?
by:Vanessa Ellingham
On Friday the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to two champions of children's rights: Pakistani schoolgirl and inspiring leader Malala Yousafzai and [...]
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Saving Face Dr. Mohammad Jawad
September 12th, 2013
SAVING FACE piling up nominations 
topics:Humans
type:Allgemein
by:anko
After years of abuse, 39-year old Zakia asked her husband for a divorce. His response was that he would “make a spectacle out of her,” and he threw a can of undiluted [...]
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saving face
June 12th, 2013
Saving Face: The story of two acid-attack survivors
topics:Humans
type:Allgemein
by:anko
SAVING FACE tells the stories of two acid-attack survivors: Zakia and Rukhsana, their arduous attempts to bring their assailants to justice, and the [...]
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