Regions / South Asia / Pakistan
Articles about Pakistan, ordered by date. 
IMF dictat
Report on Pakistan's emergency financial bailout by Kabir Agarwal.
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.
Southern Exposure: Ayesha Vellani
Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.
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.
‘WhatsApp blasphemy’
Husna Ara reports on ‘vigilante killings’ in Pakistan.
Southern Exposure: Bilal Hassan
Karachi-based photojournalist Bilal Hassan encounters a kick-ass personality.
Country profile: Pakistan
The photos, facts and politics of Pakistan.
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.
‘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.
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.
Pakistani Christians living in fear
Pakistani Christians who are charged under the country’s blasphemy laws are living in hiding, Rizwan Syed reports.
In search of lost soldiers
Families of missing POWs are still waiting for answers after 44 years, says Jas Uppal.
Take your pick
Ziauddin Sardar on the various fundamentalisms on offer in Pakistan.
In the land of widows
For the women left behind in Kashmir's border villages, life has its own challenges, as Sofi Lundin discovers.
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.
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.
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