Distributing supplies to flood survivors in Rajanpur district in 2010. Pakistan dealt with flood devastation again at the end of 2022 which devastated its economy.Photo: Reinhard Krause/Reuters/Alamy

IMF dictat

Report on Pakistan's emergency financial bailout by Kabir Agarwal.

Buy this magazine

NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Full speed ahead: Khawaja sira people celebrate the passing of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act in Lahore on 29 December 2018. The bill allows people to declare their gender – male, female or third gender (non-binary) – without expensive and painstaking medical transition.Photo: KM Chaudary/AP Photo/Alamy

Chosen family

Tooba Syed on how Pakistan’s gender non-conforming community are fighting renewed attacks on their age old existence and customs – through queer kinship.

Buy this magazine

NI 543 - Loneliness - May, 2023
Photo: Ayesha Vellani/Majority World

Southern Exposure: Ayesha Vellani

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

Buy this magazine

NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
Floods have devastated Pakistan, displacing millions and demonstrating the increasingly volatile impacts of the climate crisis. Here rural villagers are pictured using boats to access their homes on 13 September 2022.Photo: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters/Alamy

Cancel the debt

Report from Pakistan by Farooq Tariq.

Buy this magazine

NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022

Cartoon History: Asma Jahangir

ILYA sketches the uplifting life-story of an inspirational legal defender of the rights of women and religious minorities in Pakistan.

Buy this magazine

NI 536 - Abolition - March, 2022
Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara Diyawadanage was beaten to death and set ablaze in Pakistan. Here his mother is pictured by his coffin at their family residence in Ganemulla, Sri Lanka.Photo: Saman Abesiriwardana/Pacific Press/Alamy

‘WhatsApp blasphemy’

Husna Ara reports on ‘vigilante killings’ in Pakistan.

Buy this magazine

NI 536 - Abolition - March, 2022
Photo: Bilal Hassan

Southern Exposure: Bilal Hassan

Karachi-based photojournalist Bilal Hassan encounters a kick-ass personality.

Buy this magazine

NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
(clockwise from top left): A family outside their flooded house in Karachi, which was hit by super cyclonic storm Kyarr in October 2019; Imran Khan speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2020; Asia’s biggest flower market in Lahore; students in Lahore participating in the Global Climate Strike in September 2019.Photos: All From PA Images: STR/Xinhua; Valeriano Di Domenico/World Economic Forum/DPA; Last two both by Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/Sipa Usa.

Country profile: Pakistan

The photos, facts and politics of Pakistan.

Buy this magazine

NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Brutal blasphemy verdict

Brutal blasphemy verdict

Report from Pakistan by Husna Rizvi.

Buy this magazine

NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Ill-advised exercise in Iqbal Park shrouded in smog in Lahore, Pakistan.Photo: Asad Zaidi/Getty Images

Smogpocalypse

Report from Pakistan by Husna Rizvi.

Buy this magazine

NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020

Introducing... Imran Khan

For our rising new world leader segment, Richard Swift profiles the Oxford-educated former playboy cricketer, and now, Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Buy this magazine

NI 516 - The dirt on waste - November, 2018

‘One of the most hated words in Pakistan is “liberal”’

Pervez Hoodbhoy is one of South Asia’s leading nuclear physicists and an eminent Pakistani academic and intellectual. He talks to Andy Heintz about growing religious extremism and the troubled legacy of international actors in the region.

Buy this magazine

NI 512 - Public ownership rises again - May, 2018
Photo: Ram Subramanian/Facebook

Indians and Pakistanis forge online friendship

But in this increasingly jingoistic climate there is a growing number of citizens who dare to call for a peaceful solution. Nimisha Jaiswal reports.

Read this article

NI 498 - The coming war on China - December, 2016
Pakistani Christians living in fear

Pakistani Christians living in fear

Pakistani Christians who are charged under the country’s blasphemy laws are living in hiding, Rizwan Syed reports.

Buy this magazine

NI 490 - Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West - March, 2016
In search of lost soldiers

In search of lost soldiers

Families of missing POWs are still waiting for answers after 44 years, says Jas Uppal.

Buy this magazine

NI 488 - 10 economic myths - December, 2015
Flashing a victory sign, Sana Ijaz (above) demonstrates the fighting spirit of Pakistani civil society, after being arrested for demanding the government do more to counter the Pakistani Taliban.Photo: AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad

Take your pick

Ziauddin Sardar on the various fundamentalisms on offer in Pakistan.

Buy this magazine

NI 483 - Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion - June, 2015
Sarvaja’s husband was shot in 1996. She still does not know who killed him.Sofi Lundin

In the land of widows

For the women left behind in Kashmir's border villages, life has its own challenges, as Sofi Lundin discovers.

Buy this magazine

NI 482 - Global banking now - May, 2015
Muhammad and Ansa Munawar lost their 17-year-old son, Waleed, in the May 2010 attacks on two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore. Their respective fathers were both killed in religiously motivated attacks in the 1980s.Photo: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

A question of belief

Persecuted in Pakistan for being 'non-Muslim', the Ahmadi community has sought refuge abroad. But intolerance is not easily escaped, as Samira Shackle discovers.

Buy this magazine

NI 471 - The war on whistleblowers - April, 2014
An extravagant wedding ceremony can lead to a life of drudgery – and the cost may be seen as a debt the bride must ‘pay off’.Blend Images/Alamy

A prisoner in the house

For hundreds of South Asian women each year, an arranged marriage in Britain leads not to love but to slavery. Samira Shackle reports.

Buy this magazine

NI 467 - Time to rethink disability - November, 2013

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
Loneliness May, 2023
Loneliness May, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Land rights November, 2022
Abolition March, 2022
Abolition March, 2022
The fight for clean air May, 2020
How we make poverty March, 2020
How we make poverty March, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
The dirt on waste November, 2018
Public ownership rises again May, 2018
The coming war on China December, 2016
Blood brothers - Saudi Arabia and the West March, 2016
10 economic myths December, 2015
Fundamentalism - Power, politics and persuasion June, 2015
Global banking now May, 2015
The war on whistleblowers April, 2014
Fracking - the gathering storm December, 2013
Time to rethink disability November, 2013
Back