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Articles by Salam Dharejo


A human rights activist, Salam Dharejo has been a correspondent with Newsline since 2007.

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[25 Aug 2012 | Comments Off | ]
Fate Unknown: Sindh’s Lakes In Danger

A lack of funds and a raging controversy over its environmental impact brings work on the Right Bank Outfall Drain project to a grinding halt.

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[23 May 2012 | One Comment | ]
Bashir Khan Qureshi: Murder by Death?

JSQM chief Bashir Qureshi’s death remains a mystery and renders his party’s future uncertain.

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[29 Sep 2011 | Comments Off | ]
The Politics of Murder

Justice eludes the family members of two fishermen who were murdered by the land mafia for waging a struggle to protect local mangrove forests.

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[30 Apr 2011 | Comments Off | ]
Trafficking in Beggars

Disabled people are being smuggled to Iran and the Middle East to be used for beggary.

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[30 Jan 2011 | Comments Off | ]
Cashing in on Kids

Kids are being kidnapped for ransom in Kashmore – and many of them belong to the Hindu community.

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[21 Nov 2010 | 4 Comments | ]
Digitised Dishonour

Young men have scarred a district in Pakistan by committing rape and then recording their deeds using mobile phones to subsequently dishonour and blackmail the victims and their families.

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[31 Oct 2010 | Comments Off | ]
Man-made Disaster?

Looking back at the accusations of wrongdoing against politicians and landowners in Sindh to see how nature combined with man to create one of the worst humanitarian disasters in living memory.

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[18 Jul 2010 | Comments Off | ]
The Shrinking Forests

The nexus between corrupt officials, land grabbers and the timber mafia have contributed to the deforestation in Sindh.

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[31 May 2010 | Comments Off | ]
In Search of an Identity

The Bengali community is caught in a web of despair as its members struggle for Pakistani citizenship.

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[4 Jun 2009 | Comments Off | ]
The Young Also Rise

“Brahamdagh Bugti has become a role model for the Baloch in the metropolis. In Lyari, you will find the streets empty and the youth glued to the television screen on two occasions: on the day of the football World Cup final or when Brahamdagh Bugti is being interviewed by a channel,” says a young social activist.