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July 03, 2009 | Pulitzer Center
Just Back from Pakistan: The Indus Treaty
Reporting summary on a trip to Islamabad to report on the status of the Indus water treaty.
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July 01, 2009 | GlobalPost
The Ghost Schools of Pakistan
Despite ankle deep garbage, charcoal-scribbled graffiti of machine guns and the scorched remains of squatters' fires, the dusty green chalkboard still reads "December 2, 2006," the last day that classes were held in the primary school wing of Mirza Adam Khan, a government-run compound of schools in the poor and violence plagued Karachi neighborhood of Lyari.
June 23, 2009 | PBS Foreign Exchange
Education in Pakistan
Aired on Foreign Exchange June 23, 2009.
June 20, 2009 | World Vision Report
Pretty Trucks
A truck is a truck is a truck. Except in Pakistan, where trucks go to the beauty parlor for makeovers. Listen to this report.
June 19, 2009 | PBS Foreign Exchange
Galleries on the Go
Began airing on Foreign Exchange June 19, 2009
A truck depot is about the last place on earth you'd expect to find an art scene. But in Pakistan, the tradition of painting and detailing trucks adds glitter and glamour to the transport business, and offers a colorful distraction in a country tormented by war and political instability.
Video by Alex Stonehill for the Common Language Project
Produced in association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
June 18, 2009 | Pulitzer Center
Education at a Crossroads
May 30, 2009 | Foreign Affairs
Letter From Mardan: A War of Unintended Consequences
The fight for control of the Swat Valley and the future of Pakistan.
May 28, 2009 | Frontline
Pakistan: Education's Fault Lines
Journalists Sarah Stuteville and Alex Stonehill spent six weeks crisscrossing Pakistan to report on the country's growing education crisis. Both are funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and spoke recently with iWitness from Karachi about their experience.
May 22, 2009 | GlobalPost
Pakistan: Big, Bright and, To Many, Beautiful
The truck artists of Karachi apply a splash of color to an otherwise bleak canvas.
May 21, 2009 | World Vision Report, GlobalPost
Hope for Pakistan's child workers
A Karachi-based group bent on eradicating child labor is offering school lessons outside working hours.
May 16, 2009 | World Vision Report
School for Working Children
Listen to this story at World Vision Report.
This story also aired on KUOW.
May 12, 2009 | GlobalPost
Hope for Pakistan's Child Workers
Sher Shah is a hard-working neighborhood — a confusing knot of cramped lanes offering up a riot of rattling power looms, puttering motors and booming furnaces. This rough suburb, with its garment factories, machine shops and scrap metal smelters far from the imposing cement skyscrapers of the city center, forms the industrial gut of Karachi.