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‘Baji, let it be’

By Zubeida Mustafa

PAKISTAN is regressing; the extent of its decline can be measured by the treatment meted out to its women. What happened at Mujahid Colony in Karachi not too long ago has set new standards of ‘beastliness’ on the part of state functionaries in subduing women. The confrontation between women and the police took place when the authorities, having decided to widen a road in North Nazimabad, sent demolition teams to clear so-called encroachments. I will not go into the legalities of the issue as controversy surrounds it.

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Crisis in Pakistan: After the Deluge

Relief efforts begin after devastating flooding in Pakistan

Karachi, October 13, 2022 — In August and September, the southern Pakistani regions of Sindh and Balochistan received extraordinarily heavy rains following an unusually hot summer. Soon thereafter came devastating floods, caused by the rains and also the accelerating melting of the glaciers in the country’s mountainous northern areas of Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.  

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