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Breaking barriers: How desert women from Pakistan’s Tharparkar defied odds to become active voters

  • Registered women voter turnout in 2018 went as high as 72.8% in Tharparkar, lowest was 7.8% in Shangla
  • Krishna Kumari Kohli, a female senator from the desert region, hopes to witness increased women voter turnout on Feb. 8
By Zulfiqar Kunbhar - NAIMAT KHAN ·
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Breaking barriers: How desert women from Pakistan’s Tharparkar defied odds to become active voters

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar - NAIMAT KHAN ·
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In southern Pakistan, Bronze age musical instrument sounds its parting notes

By NAIMAT KHAN ·
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New renewable energy farming methods raise food security hopes in Pakistan’s Thar Desert

By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·
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With tree-planting program, schoolchildren monitor climate footprint in Karachi and Tharparkar desert

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In impoverished Pakistani desert region, an alarming rise in suicide cases

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Army establishes medical camps in Pakistan’s drought-hit Tharparkar

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