In a landscape where decent clinics are scarce, the Umrana Mumtaz Healthcare Trust Hospital is a beacon of hope. And a bustling one: On a sweltering afternoon, worried mothers wrapped in traditional ...

Discussions on the precarious situation in Pakistan today tend to be focused mostly on the threat from fundamentalist or “jihadi” militants. The focus on that threat is absolutely critical, however, ...

A report issued earlier this month by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE), a governmental research organisation, highlighted the pervasive poverty wracking rural Pakistan. The ...

Plodding his way through the desert in remote southwest Pakistan, Roshan the camel carries priceless cargo: books for children who can no longer go to school because of coronavirus lockdowns. The ...

Libraries have always been considered as information hubs. Their role in providing equitable information are essentials in both rural and urban areas, but their importance in rural areas is more ...

On her travels to rural villages in Pakistan's Balochistan Province, Dr. Shazia Khpalwak witnesses the impact of inadequate nutrition, poor infrastructure, and limited education. All those factors ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s rural support programmes were among the oldest in the region and were widely acknowledged for their success. This was stated by National Rural Support Programme ChairmanShoaib ...

In July 2010, heavy rains and devastating flooding in Pakistan displaced upwards of 20 million people. As part of the relief effort, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the U.S. has already started to send aid to victims of the Pakistan floods, which have been deemed the worst there in 80 years. Jonathan Miller of Independent ...