Pakistan
How India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were formed
Pre partition India mainly consisted of British controlled areas and sovereign princely states which were not fully and formally part of British India. In a call for independence from British Rule, Cyril Radcliffe, who had never been to India was given less than 40 days to draw up the new borders based on outdated mapsContinue reading “How India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were formed”
Why can’t Pakistan eradicate polio?
After a four month hiatus, Pakistan is set to restart its polio vaccination drive in the highest-risk regions in the country. Health officials aim to vaccinate over 800,000 children over five days in the districts of Karachi, Quetta, Faisalabad, Attock and South Waziristan. The vaccination drive will start initially in these areas where the polioContinue reading “Why can’t Pakistan eradicate polio?”
Fake pilots and heroin smuggling; PIA is unfit for purpose
Once a well-respected international airline with a burgeoning reputation, recent years have seen Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) condemned as a corrupt organisation; bereft of real leadership and values. In its formative years in the mid 1980’s, Emirates sought help from PIA to procure planes and train its staff. In the decades that followed, the twoContinue reading “Fake pilots and heroin smuggling; PIA is unfit for purpose”
Zohra Shah & Pakistan’s Child Labour Laws
Trigger warning: mention of child abuse Behind the gates of Pakistan’s most affluent neighbourhoods, an estimated 8.5 to 12 million children work as servants. Some of them are treated with kindness like an unpayable favour; second-hand clothes, eating from the same plates and sleeping in the same house. Others are not so ‘blessed’, leaving theirContinue reading “Zohra Shah & Pakistan’s Child Labour Laws”
