Security operations in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) since 2008 have uprooted thousands of families from their homes and villages to seek refuge in neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkwa. Many of these people have returned to their villages after spending months or years away, but not all of them have...
Malaria is endemic in Pakistan, and outbreaks always increase during and after the monsoon season. After the devastating floods of 2010, pools and small lakes were left behind that provided ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes. People who had lost their homes were forced to sleep outside, making them more vulnerable....
For two consecutive years, unprecedented monsoon rains and floods have swept across southern Pakistan’s Sindh and Balochistan Provinces, affecting millions of people’s lives. The floods of July and August 2010 and 2011 destroyed villages, communities and livelihoods, and forced many people to flee from their homes...
UN agencies and humanitarian partners are providing aid to a sudden influx of some 123,000 displaced people who have arrived at Jalozai Camp and the surrounding area in Nowshera, north-west Pakistan, since 17 March. Many of these people urgently need food, water, shelter and basic aid.
Those displaced have fled...
Hasina* lives in a village near Sibi in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province. She was ill during her pregnancy, but her family and friends discouraged her from seeking medical attention. Some of them found it embarrassing to see a doctor during pregnancy for privacy reasons, while others were concerned about taking medicine...
5 June 2012 - 5:37pmSecurity operations in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) since 2008 have uprooted thousands of families from their homes and villages to seek refuge in neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkwa. Many of these people have returned to their villages after spending months or years away, but not all of them have...
25 April 2012 - 5:17pmMalaria is endemic in Pakistan, and outbreaks always increase during and after the monsoon season. After the devastating floods of 2010, pools and small lakes were left behind that provided ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes. People who had lost their homes were forced to sleep outside, making them more vulnerable....
10 April 2012 - 1:29amFor two consecutive years, unprecedented monsoon rains and floods have swept across southern Pakistan’s Sindh and Balochistan Provinces, affecting millions of people’s lives. The floods of July and August 2010 and 2011 destroyed villages, communities and livelihoods, and forced many people to flee from their homes...
3 April 2012 - 12:37amUN agencies and humanitarian partners are providing aid to a sudden influx of some 123,000 displaced people who have arrived at Jalozai Camp and the surrounding area in Nowshera, north-west Pakistan, since 17 March. Many of these people urgently need food, water, shelter and basic aid. Those displaced have fled...
9 March 2012 - 2:54amHasina* lives in a village near Sibi in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province. She was ill during her pregnancy, but her family and friends discouraged her from seeking medical attention. Some of them found it embarrassing to see a doctor during pregnancy for privacy reasons, while others were concerned about taking medicine...