Climate change and conflict drive leishmaniasis in Pakistan
- 20-Jan-2025
Shabnam Bibi sits silently waiting for medical assistance. She is queuing in a crowded health facility in Landi Kotal, a city in the Khyber tribal district of northern Pakistan. Her face a canvas of despair, the 19-year-old mother of three reluctantly reveals a large lesion. It marks her left cheek and is spreading towards her […]
Climate disasters are destroying Pakistan’s mountain languages
- 01-Aug-2024
The 2010 floods in northern Pakistan are still a fresh and painful memory for Inam Torwali, a Torwali-Kohistani lexicographer. One of the worst humanitarian disasters in Pakistan’s history, the floods led to large-scale migration from the northern mountainous regions of Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Torwali was among those who lost their home. His fields were […]
Engineers warn of ‘severe’ groundwater shortage in northwest Pakistan
- 28-Nov-2022
Takht-e-Nasrati in northern Pakistan was once known for its lush greenery. But over the past 10 years local people say life has become very different in this area of Karak district, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Tubewells have dried up, forcing residents to dig deeper in search of freshwater. “This [year] we found water at a depth […]