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Pakistan

June 2024

  • Mishal Husain photographed for the Observer New Review in London by Pål Hansen, May 2024.

    ‘They didn’t dwell on it – they felt so many had suffered more’: Mishal Husain on her family history and the partition of India

    In her new book, written around 3am starts for Radio 4’s Today, the BBC presenter turns her gaze from the daily grind of British politics to her grandparents’ lucky escape
  • An open 20-pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes with the cigarettes coming out

    BAT subsidiary lobbies Pakistan to allow export of cigarettes to Sudan

    Exclusive: critics brand British American Tobacco’s plan to ‘flood a country in crisis with cheap cigarettes’ as ‘beyond shameful’
  • A man and boy walk way from a mosque carrying an umbrella to protect them from the heat.

    Improving energy supply in Pakistan could save 175,000 lives, says Unicef

    As a heatwave sweeps the country increasing demand for power, a new report says a more resilient network could also contribute $300m to the economy

May 2024

  • Two older women with a younger woman in formal dress in a scene from Moosa Lane

    Moosa Lane review – loving cinematic bridge between two countries and cultures

  • A Pakistani security official offers cold drinks to people in Karachi.

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Pakistan heatwave continues wild changes in weather patterns

  • Ahmad Farhad posing for a photograph at an event

    Pakistani poet was abducted because of human rights activism, says wife

  • In Flames.

    In Flames review – Pakistani horror mines the patriarchy for terror and despair

  • Charges dropped against nine Egyptians over 2023 migrant shipwreck off Greece

  • The world’s poorest didn’t cause the climate crisis, but they bear the brunt of it

  • ‘Our culture is dying’: vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites

April 2024

  • Children sit on the ground holding posters of their loved ones.

    ‘I only protest. I want to go to school’: the childhoods lost in Pakistan when loved ones are ‘disappeared’

  • People use a canoe to move across flooded land.

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: rains bring deadly flash floods to Afghanistan and Pakistan

  • Women and young children pull luggage as they queue to board a plane

    Delays by Home Office risk return of vulnerable Afghan families to Taliban

  • Children sit attentively on the ground while a man holds up large, colourful book.

    Tall tales but no dessert: the storyteller of Karachi and his ice-cream cart library

  • India and Pakistan tried to meddle in Canada elections, spy agency says

  • India appears to confirm extrajudicial killings in Pakistan

  • Indian government ordered killings in Pakistan, intelligence officials claim

  • Pakistani judges say intelligence agency threatened them over Imran Khan

  • Villain to some, hero to others: Asif Ali Zardari returns as Pakistan president

March 2024

  • Security personnel inspect the site of the attack near Besham city in the Shangla district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

    Six killed after suicide bomber rams convoy of Chinese engineers in Pakistan

    Five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver killed while en route from Islamabad to dam construction site
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