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'I'm still alive, but that's it': Pakistan floods test resilience

'I'm still alive, but that's it': Pakistan floods test resilience

Christian Science Monitor — Salman Khan and his family have been working round the clock to shovel the mud and water out of their house in Nowshera, a riverside city struck by devastating floods late last month. "I swear it's been four or five days since any of us have slept," he says.
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The Tragedy of Imran Khan

The Tragedy of Imran Khan

The Nation — Imran Khan is no longer the prime minister of Pakistan. He was defeated in a vote of no confidence on Sunday, and it is a source of some irony that the nearest analogue to the precipitous downfall of a man who takes such pleasure in deriding the culture of the West can be found in the pages of Shakespearian tragedy.
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Banning the Hijab Targets Muslim Women

Banning the Hijab Targets Muslim Women

The Nation — The first time Nidha Parveen realized that her choice to wear the hijab could be a point of contention was when she moved to New Delhi to attend university. Having been brought up and schooled in the southern state of Kerala, where Muslims make up more than a quarter of the population, she was not used to being interrogated about her reasons for covering her head.
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Extraditing Julian Assange Threatens Journalists Worldwide

Extraditing Julian Assange Threatens Journalists Worldwide

The Nation — On December 14, while addressing the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate, the ambassador-designate to Pakistan, Donald Armin Blome, pledged that he would champion the press in his new post. "Pakistani journalists and members of civil society face kidnappings, assaults, intimidation and disappearances," he said, promising to advocate for expanded protections and to hold the perpetrators of these actions to account.
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Imran Khan Faces a Standoff With the Pakistani Military

Imran Khan Faces a Standoff With the Pakistani Military

The Nation — Islamabad-Once again, in a repetition of the same pattern that has dogged Pakistani politics since the country's inception, the military and civilian government have become embroiled in a tense and highly publicized tussle for power.
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Pakistani Women Are Leading the Struggle for Human Rights

Pakistani Women Are Leading the Struggle for Human Rights

The Nation — Islamabad-When the journalist Asma Shirazi landed in Lahore on the night of July 13, 2018, she found her Twitter feed awash with insults. She had just been aboard the flight that had brought former prime minister Nawaz Sharif back from London after the courts convicted him, in absentia, of corruption.
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Pakistan Is Uneasy Over the Taliban's Return

There Goes the Neighborhood: Pakistan Is Uneasy Over the Taliban's Return

The Nation — Islamabad-How did it go so badly wrong? In all the column inches that have been devoted to answering this question, the one theme that has remained more or less constant is the mendacity and aloofness of the Pakistani state, which is being blamed in the West for the resurgence of the Taliban.
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Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in Pakistan

Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in Pakistan

The Nation — Pakistan's press, once a fertile breeding ground for reporters and activists, has become a graveyard of murdered careers. Such is the case of Asad Ali Toor, a journalist and vlogger based in the capital who is known as an outspoken critic of the military.
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