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Local Fallout From Pakistan’s Nuclear Energy Bet

Fishermen in Abdul Rehman goth near Karachi
Fishermen in Abdul Rehman goth near Karachi Shadi Khan Saif

ABDUL REHMAN GOTH — Ahmad Baloch couldn’t remember life ever changing much in this centuries-old fishing village just outside Karachi. But when two nuclear power plants started being built nearby, coast guard and naval security personnel arrived. “They don’t allow us free mobility in the waters,” he says of his fishing trade in Abdul Rehman Goth. “What are we going to do?” Fears about a terrorist attack on the nuclear power plants have led to massive security around them, leaving the fishermen locked out. “There are not enough fish recently,” Baloch says. “We’re just worried for our next generation.” Families […]

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In Pakistan, The World Capital Of Soccer Ball Production

Workers in a soccer ball factory in Sialkot
Workers in a soccer ball factory in Sialkot Mudassar Shah

SIALKOT — Mohammad Idrees walks slowly, with the help of his crutches, to the factory where he works in Sialkot, Pakistan. The 35-year-old has been stitching soccer balls here for more than 17 years, earning $3 a day to support his wife and six children. “I don’t have any other skills to earn a living, so I would have ended up roaming around the city or begging on the street if it wasn’t for the football factory in our village,” Idrees says as he sits on a low chair with some 30 other workers inside the factory. “I work for […]

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How The Transgender Of Pakistan Help Save Kids

One child at a time
One child at a time Shadi Khan Saif

KARACHI – Begging and sex work are what transgender people in Pakistan too often end up doing. But this also means that they are more likely to have information about the dark world of child sex trafficking. Bindya Rana had the idea of tapping into this connection to find missing children. “We are provided with pictures of the missing child, which we pass on to the transgender people in the areas where they beg and live,” Rana explains, noting that some 2,000 transgender are on the case. “We direct them to search, and if they get any information to let […]

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South Korea Nuclear Safety, NYPD Division, Freed Orangutan

Pakistani Christians in Lahore praying for the victims of the Peshawar school massacre.
Pakistani Christians in Lahore praying for the victims of the Peshawar school massacre. Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/ZUMA

Monday, December 22, 2014 SOUTH KOREA NUCLEAR PLANTS THREATENEDSouth Korea’s nuclear plant operator has launched a two-day drill to check the safety of the country’s four power plants after a hacker leaked non-critical data and threatened further leaks yesterday, news agency Yonhap reports. It’s unclear whether it was connected to North Korea and the Sony […]

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Pakistan Mourns, Doctors And Ebola, “Stupid” Dalai Lama

Mourners attend the funeral of a student who was killed in Tuesday's attack by Taliban gunmen on a school in Peshawar
Mourners attend the funeral of a student who was killed in Tuesday's attack by Taliban gunmen on a school in Peshawar Umar Qayyum/Xinhua/ZUMA

Wednesday, December 17, 2014 PAKISTAN MOURNS DEAD CHILDRENA three-day period of mourning began today in Pakistan, with vigils held in the country’s major cities and funerals in Peshawar, after Tuesday’s Taliban attack on a school in the northwest city that killed 141 people, including 132 children. The army began a series of massive air strikes […]

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Darkness To Light? Solar Power To Tame Pakistani Extremism

Solar-powered street lights in Pakistan
Solar-powered street lights in Pakistan wetlandsofpakistan

Using the power of light to combat the dark ideology of the Taliban. It sounds like the start of a bad movie, but that is exactly what Shahbaz Sharif, chief minister of the Pakistani province of Punjab, intends to do. “More jobs will mean fewer extremists because we can give people a better chance in […]

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The Sham Doctors Who Prey On Pakistan’s Poor

Street scene near Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Street scene near Rawalpindi, Pakistan Guilhem Vellut

RAWALPINDI — When 40-year-old government employee Danial Ahmed has problems with his teeth, he goes to a quack on the streets of Rawalpindi, Pakistan. “The price of dental treatment is expensive,” he says. “I cannot afford it. These quacks offer cheap treatment. For just a few hundred rupees, we can get relief from toothache and other oral infections.” These cheap alternatives to real doctors can easily be found on virtually any roadside in Pakistan. They sit along the streets or in a small kiosks, where patients are treated on the spot. According to the government, there are more than 600,000 […]

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Geopolitics Society

Pakistan’s Ghost Schools, Rusting Symbols Of A Nation’s Lost Potential

Waiting for teachers to arrive in Pakistan's ghost schools
Waiting for teachers to arrive in Pakistan's ghost schools LicencePaternitéPartage selon les Conditions Initiales Certains droits réservés par

Beyond the Taliban’s attack against Malala, there is also widespread corruption and poor state monitoring that leads to many Pakistani schools being simply abandoned buildings.

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MH17 Report, Kerry Visits Mideast, iPhone 6 Unveiling

Floods in Pakistan and India have left at least 405 people dead
Floods in Pakistan and India have left at least 405 people dead Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/ZUMA

Tuesday, September 9, 2014 MH17 PRELIMINARY REPORT Dutch experts this morning published their preliminary report into the causes of the July 17 crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine. The report stopped short of saying whether a missile had hit the aircraft, explaining instead that it broke in mid-air after being hit by […]

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Ukraine Loses Airport, Amerli Siege Broken, Spanish Treasure

akistani protesters disperse Sunday night after clashing with security forces near Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's residence in Islamabad.
akistani protesters disperse Sunday night after clashing with security forces near Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's residence in Islamabad. Saadia Seher/Xinhua/ZUMA

Monday, September 1, 2014 UKRAINE FORCES LOSE AIRPORT AHEAD OF TALKS Ukrainian government forces pulled out of the international airport in Luhansk after an assault by pro-Russian rebels, even as Ukrainian and Russian officials are preparing to meet in Minsk for another round of talks, the BBC reports. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he […]

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Jerusalem Clashes, Hong Kong Mass Arrests, Lewinsky Speaks

A man distributes Iftar food to Muslim devotees waiting to break their fast during the sacred fasting month of Ramadan.
A man distributes Iftar food to Muslim devotees waiting to break their fast during the sacred fasting month of Ramadan. Jamid Ahmed/ZUMA

Wednesday, July 2, 2014 CLASHES IN JERUSALEM AFTER DEATH OF PALESTINIAN TEEN A 16 year-old Palestinian who was allegedly kidnapped yesterday by Israelis, in an apparent retaliation for the death of the three abducted Israeli students, was found dead early this morning in a forest west of Jerusalem, AFP reports. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said […]

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Hard Questions, High Risk For Pakistan’s Incoming Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

Taliban insurrection, energy crisis... Nawaz Sharif will quickly be put to the test
Taliban insurrection, energy crisis... Nawaz Sharif will quickly be put to the test Radio Pakistan - Worldcrunch

To talk or not to talk with the Taliban may be the most pressing matter of all, writes Le Monde’s correspondent from Islamabad.

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What if Pakistan’s ‘Old Lion’ Returns to Govern?

Former (and future?) Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif
Former (and future?) Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif R. D. Ward

ISLAMABAD – If Pakistan’s May 11 parliamentary elections unfold according to recent national opinion surveys, two-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif will once again take power in Islamabad. Deposed in a 1999 coup led by General Pervez Musharraf, Sharif fled for nearly a decade of Saudi-sponsored exile. Today, however, it is Musharraf who lives under house […]

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“They Have My Address…” Interview With Accused Mumbai Mastermind

Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, founder of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba KhilafatForum

Lashkar-e-Taiba is the terrorist group responsible for the 2008 deadly attacks in Mumbai. Le Temps conducted a rare interview with its founder, Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.

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In Pakistan, Where The Taliban Bomb One Girls Schools After Another

A girl's school in Pakistan
A girl's school in Pakistan Hashoo foundation

The shooting of teenage blogger Malala Yousafzai was just the tip of the iceberg. Extremists are taking aim at all girls schools of northwest Pakistan. What does the Taliban fear?

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Crimea’s 96.77%, Malaysia Plane Update, Happy Holi!

Holi celebration in Lahore, Pakistan
Holi celebration in Lahore, Pakistan Sajjad/Xinhua/ZUMA

THE CRIMEAN MANDATE Crimeans voted overwhelmingly yesterday to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation. With a turnout of 83%, the measure won support from 96.77% of voters. MALAYSIA PLANE’S COMMUNICATION SYSTEM DISABLED MANUALLY The co-pilot of missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 issued his last message to air traffic control after part of the […]

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