January 27, 2011By Mustafa Qadri Peshawar is a hotspot for suicide and IED attacks. Mustafa Qadri travels with the city’s bomb squad to find out how local police are coping. Image credit:Mustafa Qadri In almost any other city in the world, last year would have sounded like a nightmare—25 bombings, including one at a marketplace in [...]
Pakistan’s Hurt Locker
January 27th, 2011 · No Comments
Tags: IED · Khyber Pakhtunkhwa · Lady Reading Hospital · Pakistan · Peshawar · Taliban · terrorism
Pakistan’s corrosive inequality
August 4th, 2010 · No Comments
Zardari’s decision to visit Europe as Pakistan is ravaged by floods reflects the elite’s flagrant indifference to human suffering Mustafa Qadri, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 4 August 2010 10.00 BST Contempt for human life is at the heart of Pakistan’s miseries. Although the relationship between rich and poor is complex and far from monolithically asymmetrical, fundamental inequalities make [...]
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