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August 17, 2015 | Harper's Magazine
Gangs of Karachi: Meet the Mobsters Who Run the Show in One of the World’s Deadliest Cities
Meet the mobsters who run the show in one of the world's deadliest cities.
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June 05, 2015 | The Guardian
Numaish Karachi: Can Art Installations Change This Violent Megacity's Image?
After suffering 13,500 killings in five years, a group of local residents in Karachi uses art and culture to reclaim restricted public spaces for the community.
May 28, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
Pakistan: The Road to Bannu
A Pakistani military offensive uprooted 900,000 tribesmen from areas under Taliban-control, giving health workers in Bannu a rare opportunity to vaccinate people beyond their reach.
May 13, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
Pakistan: Dinner with the Bombfather
While in Pakistan reporting on polio, reporter Tim McGirk has an unexpected "dinner" with the father of the country's nuclear weapons program.
May 11, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
Polio: The Salk-Sabin Rivalry
In the wake of World War II, there was one affliction America couldn’t shake: polio. When virologists rallied to fight back, a rift developed between two scientists: Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin.
March 12, 2015 | Pulitzer Center
Truck Art in Pakistan
Amid the trash-filled streets, bleak concrete-block storefronts, and grimy open-air workshops, Pakistan’s decorated trucks stand out in their colorful and vibrantly ornate aesthetics.
March 04, 2015 | National Geographic
Taliban Assassins Target Pakistan's Polio Vaccinators
Health workers—many of them women—continue to face bullets and bombs as they inoculate children.
February 27, 2015 | National Geographic
He Led the CIA to Bin Laden—and Unwittingly Fueled a Vaccine Backlash
Pakistani doctor's role in health campaign sparked local suspicions that efforts to fight polio were part of a Western plot.
February 25, 2015 | National Geographic
How the Bin Laden Raid Put Vaccinators Under the Gun in Pakistan
Volunteers fighting polio in Pakistan are under attack as a result of a U.S. health program to track an al Qaeda leader.
June 23, 2014 | Foreign Policy
Karachi's Killers
Karachi makes headlines with spectacular terror attacks, but the city's real insecurity problems are more mundane and intractable.
April 03, 2014 | PRI's The World
There Isn't Really Any Mystery to Why One Pakistani Village Lost Its Girls' School
The closing of one girls' school has kept a whole generation of girls in a rural Pakistani village from getting the education their sisters and mothers got.
March 26, 2014 | Harper's Magazine
The Prisoner: Cops and Crooks in Karachi
Pulitzer Center grantee Matthieu Aikins' interview with author Omar Shahid Hamid on The Prisoner and gangs in Pakistan.