Full Coverage: Pakistan

27.10.2006 RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Oct 27 (IPS) - Sitting on a red plastic stool behind the iron bars that form a caged courtyard outside Cell 74, Mirza Tahir Hussain, though only 36, looks like an old man. His white untrimmed beard, the long salt-and-pepper hair and a slight shuffle in his gait expose a life of constant worry.

18.10.2006 Rebuilding will take years, but health care for many mothers and infants is already better than before the disaster struck. A multimedia presentation offers a glimpse at life in the Kashmiri quake zone one year on.

16.10.2006 Mosquito-borne dengue fever has killed at least 17 people in PakistanÂ’s biggest city, Karachi, in the past four months, five of them since the beginning of October.

11.10.2006 Some 20,000 people in the town of Balakot in Pakistan which was badly devastated in last OctoberÂ’s 7.6 magnitude earthquake, have been facing a severe shortage of clean water for the last month, according to local authorities.

06.10.2006 Survivors have begun rebuilding their homes, communities, and livelihoods--but snow is beginning to fall on nearly 2 million people still living in makeshift shelters and tents, Oxfam warned Wednesday.

05.10.2006 KARACHI, Oct 5 (IPS) - She is in the news again. This time appearing in a documentary film ‘Shame', that tells her tale of being ordered gang-raped as retributive punishment by a village council.

03.10.2006 Pakistan's Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Monday approved the setting up of an autonomous Drug Regulatory Authority (DRA) to ensure supply of quality drugs and to streamline their registration.