http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/586/ en_GB_uk Pakistan http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163729/1/ 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85799 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 http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163458/1/ 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85542 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163301/1/ 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 http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85390 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85376 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85357 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 http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85349 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85339 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85027 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 http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84950 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 http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84825 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84685 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. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84466 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