Full Coverage: Pakistan

28.09.2009 Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is likely to get my vote for book of the year. The publishers have also taken trouble with old-fashioned virtues of design.

27.09.2009 Malnutrition is a serious problem in Pakistan with rising food prices a contributory factor. How can it make sense for the government to lease 500,000 hectares of agricultural land to Saudi Arabia? IRIN News

11.08.2009 As hundreds of thousands of Pashtuns and other minorities return home, Pakistan’s government must provide security, reconstruction and long-term development in order to avoid recreating the conditions that caused them to flee in the first place, says a new report.

28.07.2009 About 1.5 million Pakistanis displaced by fighting in the Northwest Frontier Province have yet to be repatriated and need assurance that their safety will be respected and humanitarian assistance will continue, says an aid charity.

16.07.2009 A UN refugee agency staff member was shot dead at a camp outside the northwest Pakistani town of Peshawar today.
+ Killing sparks outcry from top officials
+ Ruthlessness in Chechnya
+ Call for thorough investigation into killing of Russian activist

11.06.2009 Nine aid agencies say their efforts to help one million victims of the fighting in Pakistan's Swat valley is at risk from a shortage of funds and delays in the UN system.

05.06.2009 The Red Cross is appealing for $37 million to help the 2 million people who have fled fighting in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province.

29.05.2009 Poor communities in Pakistan’s northwest – already among the poorest in the world – are hosting up to two million people uprooted by recent violence in the region, warns an international aid agency.
+ SOS Children to offer emergency shelter to Pakistani refugees

26.05.2009 People trapped in the Swat conflict zone in Pakistan face a humanitarian catastrophe unless the Pakistani military immediately lifts a curfew that has been in place continuously for the last week, an international rights group has warned.

21.05.2009 Oxfam says it has had to double its aid effort in Pakistan as the number of displaced tops 2 million, making the crisis the greatest internal displacement of people in the country's history.

08.03.2009 William Dalrymple's book review draws interesting parallels between post-independence land reform in India and Pakistan and the contrasting path of modern literature in the two countries. Financial Times

19.02.2009 Outrage has been voiced by international media groups at the murder in Pakistan's Swat valley of a journalist whose beheaded body was found shortly after he covered a “peace march” related to an agreement about implementation of Sharia law.
+ Murder shatters Swat peace negotiations

21.01.2009 A campaign to press the Pakistan government to prevent Islamic militants in the border region with Afghanistan from destroying girls' schools has been started by a leading Asian rights group.

22.12.2008 Massive forced civilian displacements, violence, and unmet medical needs in Congo, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan, along with neglected medical emergencies in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, are some of the worst humanitarian and medical emergencies in the world, according to an international medical humanitarian organisation.

30.10.2008 Development agencies fly teams into the area of Pakistan struck by an earthquake on Wednesday.
+ Thousands homeless after Pakistan earthquake
+ MSF team dispatched to villages hit by earthquake in Balochistan
+ World Vision ready to respond as survivors face frigid temperatures

29.10.2008 Emteaz Hussain says she ran away and took shelter in a women’s refuge when she was 16, so it’s not surprising that the central characters in her first play, Sweet Cider, are two young British Asian women who have run away from home.

15.10.2008 About 190,000 people have been displaced from Pakistan’s Bajaur agency bordering Afghanistan since fighting started in mid-August, UN refugee agency teams report.

10.10.2008 At least 1,252 people were executed in 24 countries last year - though the real figure is certainly higher - with 88 per cent occurring in China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the US.

11.09.2008 Ending executions for crimes committed by children in just five countries - Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen - would result in universal implementation of the prohibition on the juvenile death penalty, says a leading rights organisation.

19.08.2008 Thousands of people gathered in Srinigar in an attempt to force the Kashmir issue back on the international agenda.