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[17 Nov 2011 | Comments Off | Zehra Nabi]
No Trivial Matter: Getting Pakistanis to Treat Domestic Abuse Seriously

Judges in Pakistan often advise victims of domestic abuse to solve their problems privately.

Blog Row, Pakistan Floods 2011, The Water Cooler »

[27 Oct 2011 | Comments Off | Sana Saleem]
Podcast: Discussing Emergency Relief after the 2011 Floods

In this podcast, two activists involved in flood relief efforts in Pakistan compare the damage and response in 2011 with that of 2010, and then offer some advice as to how the government should be preparing for future emergencies.

Blog Row, Pakistan Floods 2011, The Water Cooler »

[27 Oct 2011 | Comments Off | Talib Qizilbash]
Pakistani Activists Discuss Flood Relief in Sindh

Newsline and TeaBreak.pk co-hosted an online chat covering the 2011 Sindh floods on October 19. Get an instant replay of the entire discussion here, featuring doctors, journalists and activists who have been working on the ground in affected areas.

Blog Row, News & Politics, Pakistan Floods 2011, The Water Cooler »

[27 Oct 2011 | Comments Off | Talib Qizilbash]
Assessing the Damage of the Sindh Floods

Only 289,243 people have been directly assisted through flood relief camps in Sindh. That’s about 300,000 people out of nearly 9 million affected, or about 3%.

News & Politics, Pakistan Floods 2011 »

[17 Oct 2011 | Comments Off | Afia Salam]
Sindh Floods 2011: History Repeats Itself

After the catastrophic floods of last year, calamitous monsoon rains in Sindh have caused devastation yet again, with the same question being raised as before: could the magnitude of the disaster have been reduced?

News & Politics »

[30 Sep 2011 | Comments Off | Amir Zia]
The Shape of Things to Come

Zulfiqar Mirza’s diatribe will be damaging to the PPP’s policy of reconciliation and to democracy itself.

Editorial, Opinion »

[9 Sep 2011 | 2 Comments | Rehana Hakim]
Editor’s Note: September 2011

What prompted Sindh’s senior minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza to lash out at the MQM and federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik when his own party was in talks with the MQM to bring them back into the cabinet?

Blog Row, Globetrotting »

[8 Sep 2011 | 3 Comments | FurSid]
Photo Gallery: The Handicrafts of Sindh, Pakistan

Sindh has many indigenous handicrafts that have, despite their beauty and heritage, been denied the limelight and exposure they deserve.

News & Politics »

Stemming the Rot

The biased textbooks prevalent in the country’s public schools are, at best, miseducating the millions of students who study them. Is the much-heralded 18th Amendment the solution?

People, Q & A »

Interview: Naheed Durrani, Former Secretary of Education

“The new legislation aims to encourage children to question and not be indoctrinated,” says Naheed Durrani, who was the secretary of education until recently.