Asad Hashim

Despite a sustained, targeted campaign of killings against them, Pakistan's Hazara Shias have been left out in the cold, fending for themselves against an armed group whose fighters were once allied to the Pakistani state, researchers, analysts and members of the Hazara community have told Al Jazeera. On the evening of January 10, a suicide b...

Mingora, Swat - The case of Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani student activist who is struggling for life after Taliban gunmen attacked her on Tuesday, has captured the world's ...

Click on the image to launch the interactive Karachi, a sprawling metropolis in Pakistan's south, is one of the world's largest cities. Estimates put the city's population at more than 14...

Mingora, Pakistan - When the local chapter of the Taliban began challenging the state for control of the Swat Valley in 2007, children's education quickly turned into a battleground issue...

Karachi, Pakistan - Perched atop a hill by the seaside in Pakistan's largest city sits the mausoleum of Abdullah Shah Ghazi. About 1,400 years ago, the story goes, he came to these shores...