Full Coverage: Pakistan

29.04.2006 Snowfall has increased dramatically in northern Pakistan because of human-induced climate change, say researchers.

26.04.2006 The Country Gender Assessment 2005, report of the World Bank, was released in the capital on April 25, 2006; although noticing improvement in the quality of life for women, it has identified gender inequalities in various sectors of Pakistan.

25.04.2006 Open Source Simple Computer for Agriculture in Rural Areas (OSCAR) is a collaborative effort, initiated by IFP (French Institute of Pondicherry) with Rice-Wheat Consortium for Indo-Gangetic Plains, India, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), and Communication and Innovation Studies of Wageningen University, The Netherlands as partners in action.

20.04.2006 Mukhtar Mai is right when she says that one person alone cannot win the battle against female oppression. But before calling on the world to stand behind her, we should ensure that as many women as possible, irrespective of social class or economic status, stand up together in the first place.

18.04.2006 WHETHER it is coming of a large hydroelectric dam, a thermal power plant or a nuclear reactor, the environment-development conflict follows a standard pattern. First the government in its role of developer approves a mega project to supply infrastructural inputs electricity, water, transport etc. In the process they forget, or ignore, or suppress, crucial side effects and environmental impacts, says Pradeep Dutta.

18.04.2006 Concern is growing over disappearances of political and human rights activists in southern Pakistan, allegedly with the involvement of security personnel.

17.04.2006 While teaching civics the organisers drew a detailed area map on a wall, depicting the slum locality. It also indicates the distance to the nearest bus stop, dispensary, secondary school, and other places of importance in everyday life.

06.04.2006 In an effort to broaden its donor network, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has launched a new project with two Swiss investment firms to help raise funds for earthquake relief operations in Pakistan.

05.04.2006 Six months after their classrooms were destroyed and their friends and teachers killed in an earthquake, 300,000 Pakistani children are still unable to go to school.
* Concern over quake-affected children in Iran

05.04.2006 Around a thousand schoolchildren availed themselves of the first chance to respond to the letter “From India with love” at the Qadhafi Stadium on Tuesday. Six to thirteen year old children from 13 Lahore schools entered the stadium carrying placards with slogans like “Forget the past, remember the present and work for future,” and “Let’s be friends for life,”.

04.04.2006 In Khairpur, a city of some 125,000 people, located 450 km northeast of the port city of Karachi, PakistanÂ’s largest urban centre and the capital of the Sindh province, child marriages are increasingly common. The actual number of child marriages remains unknown, and it is believed that most such forced marriages go unreported.

04.04.2006 Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that present government has doubled the education budget in federation, provinces and districts, as the imparting of quality education is vital for countrys progress.

03.04.2006 Rights groups are actively campaigning against a brutal custom that forces families to give away their daughters in marriage as compensation for murder and as settlement of disputes in Pakistan's lawless north-west.