Who Will Aid the Aid Workers?
Fifty-six-year-old Perween Rehman had dedicated her life to humanitarian work. As head of the Orangi Pilot Project’s Research and Training Institute (OPP-RTI), she spent years working in one of the...
View ArticlePakistan Marks Historic Election
Some voters waited in line for up to eight hours to cast their ballots on May 11. Credit: Zofeen Ebrahim/IPSFlanked by loyalists, friends, journalists and excited family members, former Pakistani...
View ArticleComing Out in Droves Against Drones
Members of the PTI party protest the U.S. operation in Abbottabad that killed Osama Bin Laden. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSThough the constant hum of unmanned aerial vehicles flying overhead makes a...
View ArticleBlocking NATO to Stop Drones
Posters and billboards have been posted by Pakistan Tehreek Insaf workers on University Road in Peshawar to urge people to attend their Nov. 23 anti-drone protest. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq...
View ArticleAiming at NATO, Hitting Afghans
Members of the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf (PTI) stopping trucks headed for Afghanistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS.By Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, Nov 29 2013 (IPS) A blockade of NATO supplies to Afghanistan...
View ArticleDemocracy Gets an Electronic Boost
Elections in Pakistan have long been marred by allegations of fraud, but now one of its provinces is hoping to give democracy a boost with the help of technology. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the north of the...
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