Pakistan sentences journalists, YouTubers and ex-military officers to life over inciting violence

A court in Pakistan’s capital has sentenced seven people to life imprisonment after convicting them of inciting violence ...
NPR

Pakistan's smog is visible from space. This activist is 'frustrated' but won't give up

A thick, toxic smog has shut down life in Pakistan's second largest city, Lahore, home to more than 14 million residents. Schools, offices and public spaces are closed. In a statement, he said, "Young ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Afghans Deported From Pakistan Struggle To Find Schools, Jobs, And Shelter

Dildar Khan says he's spent his entire life in Pakistan but has now been sent "home" to Afghanistan under a scheme that has seen some 100,000 people deported in recent weeks. Khan has five children ...
Business Insider

I left Miami for a remote village in Pakistan. I have no running hot water and limited electricity — but my quality of life here is infinitely better.

Samantha Shea had never been outside the US before she started college in 2014. After graduating in 2019, she visited India and Pakistan while developing her travel writing. She moved to Hunza Valley ...
Forbes

Pakistan Election Suggests Women Playing A New Role In Public Life

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The first digitally native newswire, restoring trust in the news. Feb 22, 2024, 08:32am EST CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - FEBRUARY 15: ...
UNHCR

Helping Pakistan to improve life in relief camps

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, November 17 (UNHCR) - A group of men are sitting in a classroom at the Azad Kashmir Brigade Headquarters in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The walls are plastered with charts ...
UNHCR

Feature: Eager weavers put a positive spin on refugee life in Pakistan

LORALAI, Pakistan (UNHCR) - In the Katwai refugee camp in Pakistan's arid Balochistan province, the carpet-weaving skills that the Afghans brought when they fled their homeland two decades ago ...
NPR

In a new expulsion campaign, Pakistan is forcing many Afghans out of the country

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Large numbers of Afghans crammed into trucks and buses in Pakistan on Tuesday, heading to the border to return home ahead of the expiration of a Pakistani government deadline for ...
Live Science

Earth from space: Pakistan's 'bleeding ink' lagoon brings life to harsh desert environment

This 2014 satellite photo shows Pakistan's Khor Kalmat tidal lagoon brimming with water at the heart of an arid desert. This fluctuating body of water, which looks like "ink bleeding onto parchment," ...