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Pashtun women in Pakistan hold posters of their missing family members

Is Pakistan poised for a Pashtun Spring?

Global Politics

Pashtuns are an ethnic minority group composed largely of about 30 million people in Pakistan. They have also gone missing by the thousands.

Asma Jahangir speaks during a news conference in Islamabad

Human rights activist lawyer Asma Jahangir inspired women to speak loudly

Media
A man leads a camel with children taking a ride on it along the Clifton beach in Karachi, Pakistan

Fear has not paralyzed Pakistan

Music
The video, featuring Beyonce's 'Run The World (Girls)', has been criticised by both religious conservatives and feminists in Pakistan.

How a viral dance video set to Beyonce got Pakistan talking

Culture
Poor Rich Boy

For Poor Rich Boy — lyrically, think Morrissey, but musically their melodies are Beatle-like

Media
The World

Two Pakistani sisters out-Bieber the Bieb

Culture

Two teenage sisters have become web — and now TV — sensations by singing songs from their hero: Justin Bieber.

From left, BBC reporter Shaimaa Khalil, salon owner Murtasa Misbah and acid attack victim Bushra Shafi, who got medical attention for her burns thanks to Misbah and now works at her salon.

‘For less than a dollar, you can [buy] a liter of acid and basically destroy someone’s life’

Justice

Almost 10 years ago, a young Pakistani woman was held down by her mother-in-law while her husband and father-in-law threw acid on her. Some 150 operations later, Bushra Shafi is working as a beautician in a hair salon in Lahore, started by a hairdresser who was moved to help victims of acid attacks when one of them came into her salon and asked simply: “Can you make me beautiful again?”

Alisa Weinstein

This American has been held in Pakistan for three years. His daughter wants him home

Conflict

Warren Weinstein worked for USAID in Pakistan before he was abducted by unknown men. He has been held since 2011 by men thought to be members of al-Qaeda. As the third anniversary of his kidnapping approaches, his daughter wants to see him back home.

Alisa Weinstein

This American has been held in Pakistan for three years. His daughter wants him home

Conflict

Warren Weinstein worked for USAID in Pakistan before he was abducted by unknown men. He has been held since 2011 by men thought to be members of al-Qaeda. As the third anniversary of his kidnapping approaches, his daughter wants to see him back home.

The World

Dispatches from a desperate Pakistan

Lifestyle & Belief

BBC reporter Hugh Sykes has been travelling around the country this week and says that the news there is often so bad that some are at a point of despair.