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HEALTH-PAKISTAN: Stronger Remedy Needed to Meet Polio Targets
Four-year-old Nadia tousles her hair and drags her withered leg as she reaches out for the table to support herself. Visibly tired and irritable, her mother Sharifan reflects on her daughter's predicament just as her other child, a 10-month-old baby, cries uncontrollably on her shoulder.EDUCATION-PAKISTAN: Children Draw Line on Rights, War and Peace
''He's a freedom fighter,'' said the 11-year-old who had drawn Raphael, of Ninja Turtle fame. No one, however, had drawn the tanks, missiles or armed soldiers commonly seen at children's art exhibitions on war and peace.LABOUR-PAKISTAN: Project Moves Children from Looms to Schools
More than 1,200 boys and girls from villages in the Thar Desert have begun attending school under a homespun project aimed at helping children who toil as weavers while preserving their craft and the local carpet industry.PAKISTAN: Concern Rises over Torching of Foreign-Funded Schools
Arsonists have struck nine schools in the remote hills of northern Pakistan, sparking official concern that Taliban or other Islamist groups critical of organisations that get foreign aid could be targeting the area.PAKISTAN: Concern Rises over Torching of Foreign-Funded Schools
Arsonists have struck nine schools in the remote hills of northern Pakistan, sparking official concern that Taliban or other Islamist groups critical of organisations that get foreign aid could be targeting the area./ARTS WEEKLY/PAKISTAN: Kite-Flying Heralds Spring’s Arrival, Can be Lethal
Colourful paper kites heralding the onset of spring dot the sky above this ancient fort city and provincial capital in a traditional celebration, for which authorities temporarily lifted a ban against kite-flying.HEALTH-PAKISTAN: Poverty, Poor Health Services Condemn Women to Disability
''It's her misfortune that she's alive. Those who die are luckier.'' The words were those of a woman whose only daughter suffered from obstetric fistulae, a disability resulting from obstructed childbirth that experts have said afflicts tens of thousands of women per year in Pakistan and the rest of South Asia.MEDIA-PAKISTAN: State Draws Fire Over Journalist’s Detention
The government has drawn fire over its secret detention and prosecution of a Pakistani journalist accused of helping French reporters make a fake film about terrorist training camps.MEDIA-PAKISTAN: State Draws Fire Over Journalist’s Detention
The government has drawn fire over its secret detention and prosecution of a Pakistani journalist accused of helping French reporters make a fake film about terrorist training camps.PAKISTAN: Programme Seeks to Ease Harsh Street Life, Drug Use
''When my father divorced my mother, I decided to come to Karachi and look for her. I still have not found her,'' says Hyder, a boy who has roamed this sprawling Pakistani port city's back alleys for three years.PAKISTAN: Programme Seeks to Ease Harsh Street Life, Drug Use
''When my father divorced my mother, I decided to come to Karachi and look for her. I still have not found her,'' says Hyder, a boy who has roamed this sprawling Pakistani port city's back alleys for three years.WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Activists Nurture a South Asian Identity
''I, for one, don't want to take the extra baggage of going as a Pakistani at the World Social Forum (in India). I'd rather be known as a South Asian citizen,'' claims Pakistani activist Aly Ercelawn. But Karamat Ali, another participant, says, ''But why go with any identity tag at all?''PAKISTAN: Debate Reopened on Whether Organ Donations are Islamic
Pale, in fact more on the sallow side, six-month old Sohaib opens his eyes, stretches a little and looks at all those gathered around his cot at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation's (SIUT) intensive care unit in this southern Pakistani city. Their faces are hidden by green theatre masks, but Sohaib, who hails from Rawlakot in Azad Kashmir or Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, gives a faint smile as his eyes fall on his mother.HEALTH-PAKISTAN: Maternal Services Make All the Difference
Standing at the far corner of the outpatient section of the gynecology and obstetrics ward of the Qatar General Hospital in the southern port city of Pakistan, one can see a million expressions on the numerous faces of the women here.HEALTH-PAKISTAN: Dearth of Trained Midwives Plagues Planners
In the village of Talhi, in Pakistan's Sindh province, water still tends to be transported on camel-back. That is how a midwife too gets her supply of water to carry out a delivery, and such a midwife is Margaret Gill.ENVIRONMENT-PAKISTAN: Winter Revives Row over Houbara Hunting
Come winter and the houbara bustard issue resurfaces in Pakistan like the endangered and shy desert bird itself. If it is not the row over its sustainable hunting, then it is people looking the other way while falcons, traditionally used to hunt the birds, are smuggled out.RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Thousands Face Eviction for Controversial Highway
A multi-million dollar highway project for this southern port city in Pakistan continues to be rammed through the communities affected, despite grave concerns being raised by Pakistani and international non-government organisations (NGOs) about the fate of those displaced by the construction.HEALTH-PAKISTAN: At Long Last, Public Toilets That Work
They are forced to relieve themselves along roads and railway tracks, behind bus stops and in empty plots piled high with dirt, or beside festering drains. Men, women and children have no option but to perform a private act in full public view./ARTS WEEKLY/THEATRE-PAKISTAN: No Stage Is Too Far For This Group
In a ward at Qatar General Hospital, midwives and staff nurses jostled for space on the floor matting, watching the theatre group team arrange the few props they had brought with them. Others, curious about this activity in the hospital lobby, gathered on the staircase.RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Despite Sound and Fury, ‘Hudood’ Laws Still Stay
The furore over Pakistan's controversial 'Hudood' laws and the burden they force on women has been rising again, but activists and even human rights officials are not at all optimistic about their repeal in this mainly Muslim country.RIGHTS-PAKISTAN: Despite Sound and Fury, ‘Hudood’ Laws Still Stay
The furore over Pakistan's controversial 'Hudood' laws and the burden they force on women has been rising again, but activists and even human rights officials are not at all optimistic about their repeal in this mainly Muslim country.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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