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People rest in the shade of a tree on a hot summer afternoon in Lucknow in the central Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday. Severe heat wave conditions are sweeping north and western parts of India.

Climate scientists say South Asia's heat wave (120F!) is a sign of what's to come

May 03, 2022
Some schools have closed early for summer. More than a billion people are in danger of heat stroke. Summer's early arrival in South Asia also threatens global grain supplies.
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Goats and Soda
Women were an integral part of the construction effort. Among their jobs: Carrying cement for a building project in Chandigarh, India in 1956.

PHOTOS: See the bold buildings that sprang up after South Asia regained independence

Apr 23, 2022
An exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art shows how Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka celebrated their freedom with a revolutionary vision for buildings and cities. Women played a vital role.
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World
Bilquis Edhi watched over abandoned children in cradles at the Edhi orphanage in Karachi in 2010. Over the years, thousands of children have been left in the network of cradles outside Edhi centers she set up across Pakistan.

Pakistani humanitarian Bilquis Edhi has died

Apr 15, 2022
She was the widow of Abdul Sattar Edhi, founder of Pakistan's best-known social services network. A nurse, she worked alongside her husband and focused especially on the welfare of children and women.
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Asia
Pakistan's opposition leader Shahbaz Sharif, center, speaks while other opposition parties leader watch during a press conference after the Supreme Court decision, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 7, 2022.

Pakistani lawmakers to elect new prime minister after Imran Khan ouster

Apr 11, 2022
An opposition lawmaker and a brother of disgraced former prime minister appears as a leading contender to replace Khan.
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World
Supporters of an opposition party celebrate the success of a no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Imran Khan, in Karachi, Pakistan on Sunday.

Pakistan's prime minister vows to fight on after Parliament ousts him

Apr 10, 2022
Supporters of Imran Khan took to the streets in protest while the political opposition prepared to install his replacement.
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Asia
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during a joint news conference with Afghan president at the Presidential Palace in Kabul in 2020.

After a week of political chaos in Pakistan, more turmoil lies ahead

Apr 08, 2022
The county's Supreme Court said a move by Prime Minister Imran Khan to dissolve parliament rather than face a no-confidence vote was unconstitutional. What happens next isn't entirely clear.
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Asia
Pakistani paramilitary troops stand guard with riot gears outside the National Assembly, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, April 3, 2022.

Pakistan is thrown into crisis after the prime minister dissolves parliament

Apr 02, 2022
The nation's politics was thrust into disarray after Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved parliament ahead of a vote on a no-confidence motion in which he was widely expected to lose.
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Asia
Imran Khan, prime minister of Pakistan, arrives for the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the Beijing National Stadium, last month.

Pakistan's Imran Khan faces a political showdown — without the army for support

Mar 26, 2022
Amid a series of missteps, the cricket star-turned-politician faces a no confidence vote after the country's all-powerful generals signaled that they would no longer back him.
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Goats and Soda
Young women wait to get vaccinated by Namra, a 21-year-old health worker who's part of a national door-to-door vaccination effort in the informal Hindubasti settlement in Karachi.

Pakistan has a big idea: Send 13,000 teams led by women to vaccinate the hesitant

Mar 05, 2022
The vaccinators are going door-to-door in what the government is calling an unprecedented effort, toting coolers with a mix of COVID vaccine types.
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Asia
Rescue workers and volunteers gather at the site of bomb explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Friday.

A suicide bombing at a mosque in Pakistan kills at least 30

Mar 04, 2022
The bombing was the latest act of violence in majority Sunni Muslim Pakistan, where minority Shiite Muslims have come under repeated attacks.
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World
Painter Irfan Mohammad works on a truck at a sprawling workshop in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

These eye-popping, hand-painted trucks rule Pakistan's roads

Feb 05, 2022
Around the world, trucks are essential everyday vehicles. In Pakistan, trucks are also canvases for dazzling works of art. Truck art has served a social good too, and helped recover missing children.
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Goats and Soda
Abdul Alim, one of Pakistan's oldest COVID survivors, died of natural causes on Jan. 27. He was 104 years old.

Abdul Alim of Pakistan, a COVID survivor and vaccine advocate, dies at age 104

Feb 01, 2022
In his final days, Alim asked people not to visit him or his family due to rising COVID cases in his community. "Even in death he wanted to keep people and our family safe," says his son.
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Asia
In this photo provided by Pakistan's Press Information Department, Pakistan's Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmad, left, administrates the oath of office to Ayesha Malik in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday. Malik is the first female judge to serve on Pakistan's Supr

Meet Justice Ayesha Malik, Pakistan's first female Supreme Court judge

Jan 25, 2022
Malik was sworn in on Monday, shattering a glass ceiling in a country where only about 17% of judges are women.
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Asia
People walk past vehicles trapped in a heavy snowfall-hit area in Murree, some 28 miles north of the capital of Islamabad, Pakistan, on Saturday.

In Pakistan, 22 die in subfreezing temperatures as their cars are stuck in heavy snow

Jan 08, 2022
Most of the victims died of hypothermia, officials said, as overnight temperatures fell to 17.6 Fahrenheit amid heavy snowfall at Pakistan's mountain resort town of Murree.
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Asia

Pakistan is trying to rally Muslim countries to help Afghanistan

Dec 18, 2021
Pakistan's foreign minister said his message to Sunday meeting is "Please do not abandon Afghanistan. Please engage. We are speaking for the people of Afghanistan."
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Goats and Soda
Above: Pakistan is home to millions of ethnic Bengalis, many of whom remain stateless, with none of the rights granted to citizens. Like many stateless peoples, they may live in slums where they bear the brunt of climate change impacts, but they're often

They're the invisible victims of climate change

Nov 09, 2021
At summits like COP26, attention is paid to those who find their livelihood — and health — at risk and who might become climate change refugees. But who will speak up for the stateless?
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Asia
A local resident looks at his damaged house following a severe earthquake that hit the area in Harnai, about 60 miles from Quetta, Pakistan. A powerful earthquake shook parts of southwestern Pakistan early Thursday.

Strong earthquake in southwest Pakistan has killed at least 20 people

Oct 07, 2021
The epicenter of the 5.9 magnitude quake was about 15 kilometers north-northeast of Harnai in Baluchistan province, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Goats and Soda
Dr. Saleema Rehman stands outside Holy Family Hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The Afghan refugee of Turkmen origin has won UNHCR's Nansen Award for her work helping refugee moms and babies in Pakistan.

An Afghan refugee girl grew up to be a prize-winning doc — with a little help from dad

Oct 05, 2021
From the moment Saleema Rehman was born, her father believed she was destined to be a doctor. Now she is the winner of a top U.N. award for her work helping displaced women in Pakistan.
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World
A Taliban guard stands on the Afghan side of the Torkham border crossing with Pakistan. People behind wait either to leave Afghanistan or to receive those returning to the country.

At Pakistan's Border With Afghanistan, People Wait To Cross From Both Sides

Sep 14, 2021
Afghans are trying to reach Pakistan via the frontier near the Khyber Pass, but Pakistan is wary of more refugees. Cargo trucks are backed up for miles, waiting to deliver goods into Afghanistan.
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World
The main entrance to the campus of the Darul Uloom seminary in Deoband, India, where the Deobandi strain of Islam was founded in the 19th century. Among its more recent adherents are the Taliban.

The Taliban's Ideology Has Surprising Roots In British-Ruled India

Sep 08, 2021
The Taliban's ideology has distant links to India. Scholars say Afghanistan's new leaders might listen to clerics in the birthplace of Deobandi Islam, though the clerics deny ties with the Taliban.
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Asia
Dawlatt Naimati, 22, from Kunduz, stands outside an internet café where she is seeking help applying for a U.S. special immigrant visa on Aug. 8, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

4 Reasons A Potential Taliban Takeover In Afghanistan Matters To The World

Aug 14, 2021
It's not clear if the Taliban will be able to seize control of the entire country, but the speed of their advance has many inside and outside the country alarmed at the prospect.
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Author Interviews
Osama bin Laden is seen at an undisclosed location in a television image broadcast on Oct. 7, 2001.

Osama Bin Laden Biography Goes Inside Al-Qaida Leader's Final Hideout

Aug 04, 2021
Journalist Peter Bergen visited bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, before it was demolished. His new book, The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, draws on materials seized in the raid.
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Goats and Soda
Malala Yousafzai is the subject of the cover story in the new issue of <em>British Vogue</em>. A comment she made about marriage has prompted social media outrage in Pakistan.

Malala Yousafzai's Interview In 'British Vogue' Sparks Anger In Her Native Pakistan

Jun 04, 2021
The Nobel Peace Prize winner posed for a cover portrait and spoke openly in an interview. One of her remarks about marriage has prompted vitriolic responses on social media in her homeland.
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Goats and Soda
Aziz Abdul Alim, a 103-year-old man from a remote valley in Upper Chitral of northern Pakistan, is both a COVID survivor and a proud supporter of the COVID vaccine.

103-Year-Old COVID Survivor Has Advice For The Unvaccinated

May 08, 2021
Aziz Abdul Alim, from a remote part of northern Pakistan, urges people to get their COVID shot: 'Everyone should have the courage to take it.'
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Opinion
U.S. Marines conduct an operation to clear a village of Taliban fighters on July 5, 2009, in Mian Poshteh, Afghanistan. The U.S. and NATO forces plan to withdraw their remaining troops from Afghanistan by September.

Opinion: U.S. Faces Hard Choices To Fight Terrorism After Afghanistan Withdrawal

Apr 15, 2021
Al-Qaida is degraded but not defeated. Analyst Colin Clarke assesses where the U.S. may be mapping out its future counterterrorism presence after withdrawing from Afghanistan.

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