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Breaking barriers: How desert women from Pakistan’s Tharparkar defied odds to become active voters

Breaking barriers: How desert women from Pakistan’s Tharparkar defied odds to become active voters

  • Registered women voter turnout in 2018 went as high as 72.8% in Tharparkar, lowest was 7.8% in Shangla
  • Krishna Kumari Kohli, a female senator from the desert region, hopes to witness increased women voter turnout on Feb. 8
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Pakistan confronts mental health crisis among survivors of deadly floods

Pakistan confronts mental health crisis among survivors of deadly floods

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·
Special Traditional drink of wrestlers beats heat in southern Pakistan during Ramadan photos

Traditional drink of wrestlers beats heat in southern Pakistan during Ramadan

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·
Special Erum Baloch, founder of Stars Women Hockey Academy in Jacobabad, Sindh, Pakistan, poses during training. (Photo courtesy: Erum Baloch)

In remote Pakistani city, young women break taboo with hockey sticks

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·
Environmentalists call for end to popular bonfire festival held in memory of Pakistani saint

Environmentalists call for end to popular bonfire festival held in memory of Pakistani saint

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·
Muhammad Waseem sings at a studio in Hyderabad, Pakistan, on Feb. 7, 2022. (AN photo by Zulfiqar Kunbhar)

Pakistani man recreates the sound of late Bollywood icon Lata

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·
Special In Pakistan’s hottest city, summers force half of population to leave

In Pakistan’s hottest city, summers force half of population to leave

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·
Photo taken on Jan. 14, 2022 shows an exterior view of King Abdullah Campus of the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir in Chhatar Kalas, Pakistan. (AN photo by Zulfiqar Kunbhar)

Saudi-funded campus in Pakistan’s Kashmir helps close gender gap in science

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Pakistan bid to turn banana waste into fiber bears fruit

Pakistan bid to turn banana waste into fiber bears fruit

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·
In southern Pakistan, a shrine where devotees pay respect to ‘saint of roosters’

In southern Pakistan, a shrine where devotees pay respect to ‘saint of roosters’

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·
Suicides rise at alarming rate in impoverished Pakistani desert region

Suicides rise at alarming rate in impoverished Pakistani desert region

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·
New farming method promises to multiply Pakistan’s mango yield

New farming method promises to multiply Pakistan’s mango yield

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·
Woven together, the rise and fall of southern Pakistan’s Banarsi sari

Woven together, the rise and fall of southern Pakistan’s Banarsi sari

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·

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