In a society where women are not treated equally, life for a girl child becomes discriminatory, unjust and considerably miserable. Such is the case in most parts of Pakistan where girls are inhumanly...
Sassi hails from a poor family. Her husband is a labourer. They had a small house of their own before it was destroyed by unrelenting monsoon rainfall, so she had to give birth in a cave during the...
Umerkot is one of the worst flood affected districts of Sindh, Pakistan. It is contrary to environmental characteristics of the area that it floods with rainwater. People have constructed their...
Time to nab poor governance
By: Javed Shabbir Choudry
Whenever a tragedy hits Pakistan, poor people are screwed up. They are deprived of whatever little possession they do have. They become...
Since Indri’s father passed away two years ago, her mother has had to struggle to raise the family alone. Now life is even tougher as the monsoons have destroyed their home and many of the goats they...
With two disabled sons, life was difficult enough for Zainab before the floods left her family homeless. Now she has lost her livestock and her village is completely under water.
It was only by chance that I became a humanitarian worker. When I was young my father was diagnosed with cancer and we were told we had to raise huge sums of money to pay for his treatment....
I joined ActionAid Pakistan in November 2010 when the devastating flood had just hit the country and its impact was still unrolling. ActionAid had initiated a timely and well-coordinated emergency...
ActionAid Pakistan has planned a series of events and activities to mark the one year anniversary of the 2010 floods that caused massive devastation in our country. The commemoration of "floods - one...
To delete its impression of being a centralist federation, the democratic government decided to purge constitution of dictatorial distortions. It resulted in awarding more autonomy to province to...
