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“Pakistan”

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Dossiers¹

June 15th, 2019

by:	Shadi Khan Saif

The state forces in Pakistan need to realise they cannot impose their will on people with force for long.

Bride trafficking

June 08th, 2019

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.

June 04th, 2019

type:	Education, NGO
by:	Yair Oded

Support Piler in their effort to combat social and economic inequalities in Pakistan.

by:	Shadi Khan Saif

In a pathetic show of discrimination and hypocrisy, the security establishment in Pakistan has booked a prominent female activist.

pakistan child poverty

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.

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.

Narendra Modi elections

April 13th, 2019

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.

PAKISTAN-SOCIETY

April 06th, 2019

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.

violence against women

March 31st, 2019

by:	Shadi Khan Saif

Pakistan ranks among the five worst countries for women in the world.

television pakistan

March 03rd, 2019

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.

water india sikh

February 23rd, 2019

by:	Shadi Khan Saif

Pakistan — like India — is facing a grim situation in regard to managing its water resources for the rapidly growing population.

February 14th, 2019

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.

February 09th, 2019

by:	Shadi Khan Saif

PTM gained nationwide attention after the extrajudicial killing of a young Pashtun male model in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi.

Andile Phehlukwayo

January 26th, 2019

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!

January 04th, 2019

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.

Pakistan Pashtun Rally

December 14th, 2018

by:	Shadi Khan Saif

Pakistani authorities are scrutinising media coverage of a Pashtun rights movement, blocking VOA websites and filing police cases against journalists.

November 22nd, 2018

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.

Tahir Khan Dawar

November 16th, 2018

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.

October 31st, 2018

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.

Manan Bashir Wani

October 18th, 2018

by:	Shadi Khan Saif

Manan Bashir Wani’s killing calls for soul-searching not only in Kashmir, but New Delhi and Islamabad.

Afghan Refugees

August 27th, 2018

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.

August 24th, 2018

type:	Donation, NGO
by:	Yair Oded

Help WaterAid end the water crisis in Pakistan

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August 19th, 2018

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?

pakistan election

July 29th, 2018

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.

July 15th, 2018

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.

July 01st, 2018

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?

June 17th, 2018

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.

women pakistan protest

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.

April 23rd, 2018

by:	Shadi Khan Saif

The dominant military establishment in Pakistan has practically been at the helm of affairs throughout its history.

Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU)

October 29th, 2017

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.

August 11th, 2017

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.

afghanisatn parliament

July 16th, 2017

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 [...]

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 [...]

April 21st, 2017

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 [...]

Abdul Wali Khan University

April 15th, 2017

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 [...]

March 03rd, 2017

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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February 27th, 2017

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 [...]

February 03rd, 2017

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

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

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 [...]

kunduz_afghanistantoday

January 06th, 2017

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 [...]

December 30th, 2016

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

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 [...]

a school in pakistan

November 18th, 2016

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 [...]

journalist-danger

November 12th, 2016

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

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 [...]

IraqiRefugee-Damascus

September 22nd, 2015

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 [...]

Heatwave in Pakistan

August 06th, 2015

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 [...]

February 11th, 2015

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 [...]

Polio vaccines given to children near the Afghan border

November 28th, 2014

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

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 [...]

Saving Face Dr. Mohammad Jawad

September 12th, 2013

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 [...]

June 12th, 2013

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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