The early May killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in an affluent Khyber Pakhtunkhwa suburb has once again thrust Pakistan into the global spotlight. While policy discussions are often dominated by geopolitical questions surrounding perceived divisions in the country's civilian and military leadership, Islamabad's attempts to combat the country's scourge of terrorism, U.S. military operations inside Pakistan, its nuclear arsenal and its long-running tensions with neighbouring India, the concerns of Pakistanis rarely heard in these debates are those of a nation emerging from an economic crisis and a devastating natural disaster, with high levels of poverty, income inequality and ethnic and gender discrimination. IPS gives voice to these voiceless in Pakistan, while reporting on the broader sociopolitical context from which their concerns arise.