Muhammad Hamid Zaman
The writer is the Director of the Center on Forced Displacement, and a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Global Health, at Boston University
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Make Human Dignity The Foundation Of Policymaking
This article is part of a series titled "Is there a way forward for Pakistan?" Read more about the series here. My vision of Pakistan rests on my vision for human dignity. It is not a mere slogan of all lives being important, or the...
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Free At Last: MNA...
Karachi Central Jail on Tuesday released a Member of the National Assembly and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement leader Ali Wazir...
Features
A Baloch Mother’s Agonizing...
A four-hour journey from Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, to the city of Nushki, takes you...
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People In Waziristan Take...
People in North Waziristan took to the streets to protest attacks on two girls' schools in the tribal district's...
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Over 2 Years In...
It has been five years since Pakistani journalist Zeenat Shehzadi was released after more than two years of enforced...
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AJK Govt Forces Female...
MUZAFFARABAD: In a regressive move, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government has made it compulsory for female students and...
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On Ashura, Remembering the...
Pakistan's Shia community, that makes up about 10-15 percent of the country's population, has long faced violence at the...
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