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Actors perform a skit to raise awareness of the impact of climate change in Badin District, in Pakistan’s Sindh Province, in October 2016

Pakistan’s new NGO tax will hurt those most at risk, say humanitarians

8 August 2017

Is Pakistan’s NGO tax move a valid step in a war on waste or the latest phase of an intensifying crackdown on civil society?

Investigations

EXCLUSIVE: Pakistan recruiting Taliban fighters into pro-government militias
3 July 2017
Is it wise for Pakistan to commandeer Taliban members to fight rival militant groups on its behalf?
Feature

Kashmir earthquake: What happened to 12 years and $6 billion?
12 May 2017
Pakistan’s school reconstruction plan since the 2005 Kashmir earthquake has failed miserably. Where did it all go wrong?

Pakistan investigating NGOs accused of promoting blasphemy and pornography
14 April 2017 News
Pushed out of Pakistan into war-torn Afghanistan, refugees are told to be ‘patient’
13 April 2017 News
Can $10 billion and political reforms bring peace to Pakistan’s restive frontier?
5 April 2017 Feature

Analysis

Why is the so-called Islamic State attacking Sufis?
2 March 2017
Hundreds of Pakistanis have returned home after fighting with so-called Islamic State, increasing the threat of attacks on Sufis
News

Restive Pakistani city in legal limbo since bombing killed, injured 150 lawyers
24 February 2017
Thousands of cases are stalled after an August attack killed or injured more than half of Quetta’s lawyers
News

UN under fire even as Pakistan lifts Afghan deportation order
13 February 2017
Pakistan has moved its deportation deadline, but the pressure is still very much on Afghan refugees to leave
News

Pakistan NGOs go to court to fight government crackdown
25 January 2017
NGOs deny charges of “pursing an anti-state agenda” as government crackdown intensifies
Investigations

Islamic State ramps up recruitment in Pakistan
11 January 2017
Is Asia the next big battleground for Islamic State? The group is already using social media to expand its presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Analysis

Will the UN become complicit in Pakistan’s illegal return of Afghan refugees?
10 November 2016
Pakistan has threatened to deport all Afghan refugees who don’t leave by 31 March, and the UN is poised to support this illegal repatriation.

Families torn apart as Pakistan forces Afghan refugees back over the border
26 October 2016 News
Why are Afghan refugees being forced back to a worsening war?
24 October 2016 Photo feature
As Islamist militancy wanes, Pakistan’s Pashto-language filmmakers bounce back
28 September 2016 Feature
Pellet guns out in deadly force in Kashmir, after court refuses ban
27 September 2016 News
Afghanistan overwhelmed as refugees return from Pakistan
13 September 2016 News
How ready are Indian Ocean nations for the next big tsunami?
7 September 2016 News

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