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Women Taking the Lead in Northern Pakistan Province
Former provincial assembly member Shagufta Malik and former national assembly member Bushra Gohar at Peshawar Press Club. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPS“Women in Pakhtun society have traditionally helped...
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Skyping the Way to Victory, to Avoid Taliban
ANP candidate Syed Masoom Shah on his way to the hospital after an Apr. 14 bomb attack in Charsadda, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, that injured four people. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSIf you...
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Giving Paraplegic Women a New Lease on Life
Shaheen Begum receives skills training at the PPC paraplegic centre in Hayatabad in northern Pakistan. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSGul Shada thought it was the end of the road for her when she and her...
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Peace Gets a Chance in Pakistan
Victims of a May 17 explosion at a mosque in a village in Malakand district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which killed 13 people. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSPeshawar is breathing a little easier....
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Taliban Ban Has Crippling Effects on Children
Families and health workers defy the Taliban's ban on oral polio vaccines (OPV). Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSFour-year-old Muhammad Jihad is handicapped, and his parents know who to blame: the Taliban....
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Blocking 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...
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Militancy Pushes Northern Pakistan Close to Industrial Collapse
Industrial infrastructure in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is crumbling, as militancy drives investors and owners away. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, Pakistan , May 15...
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Here Are the Real Victims of Pakistan’s War on the Taliban
An elderly displaced man carries a sack of rations on his shoulder. The Pakistan Army has distributed 30,000 ration packs of 110 kg each. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR,...
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Refugees Living a Nightmare in Northern Pakistan
Doctors examine internally displaced children from North Waziristan Agency at a free medical clinic in Bannu, a district of Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Credit: Ashfaq...
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These Children Just Want to Go Back to School
About 518,000 primary school students have sat idle over the last decade as a result of the Taliban's campaign against secular education. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq YusufzaiPESHAWAR, Pakistan...
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Where Women Don’t Work
Employment opportunities for women in Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are limited, due to a prevailing cultural attitude of male dominance. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq...
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Displacement Spells Danger for Pregnant Women in Pakistan
A doctor examines a woman in an IDP camp in Bannu, a city in Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, where over 40,000 pregnant women are at risk due to a lack of maternal health...
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Pakistan’s Tribal Areas Demand Repatriation of Afghan Refugees
Afghan refugees in Pakistan number some three million. Most crossed the border in 1979 during the Soviet invasion and have lived in Pakistan for generations. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy Ashfaq...
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Women ‘Sewing’ a Bright Future in Northern Pakistan
Afghan widows and orphans in Pakistan have few livelihood options, but a women’s charity is teaching them basic embroidery and sewing to help them start home-based businesses. Credit: Najibullah...
View ArticleAfghan Refugees’ Right To Stay in Pakistan May Expire
“We aren’t happy here but cannot go back to our country because the situation there was extremely bad,” Ghareeb Gul, Afghan refugees told IPS. Gul, 40, arrived in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of the...
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