Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy
“I don’t think anyone is afraid of dying but I think everyone would be afraid of dying in an unjust manner.”
Updated 17 Apr, 2019 05:14pm
Festive occasions are a gory reminder; in homes across Pakistan, there is one weapon and a willing weapon wielder.
Updated 20 Jul, 2015 11:12am
I have seen firsthand their rescue work during emergencies in Punjab. Karachi needs that kind of service the most.
Updated 05 Jul, 2015 11:15am
The Indus Blood Center is ending the need for patients to arrange for blood donations in exchange for receiving blood.
Published 21 Jun, 2015 06:33am
No regularisation, no laws and sometimes no work even for daily wagers; how do they make ends meet?
Updated 07 Jun, 2015 03:00pm
What happens when a patient suffers because a doctor has been careless? Apparently, not much.
Updated 10 May, 2015 05:54pm
Saving lives, protecting homes, and extinguishing deadly blazes are, for him, just another day’s work.
Updated 16 Feb, 2015 02:31pm
Shakir struggles to restore a Christian graveyard that is being quickly gobbled up by the land mafia.
Updated 01 Feb, 2015 05:07pm
Jinnah Hospital’s emergency ward has its own perils, the violence that affects us every day doesn’t end at its doors.
Updated 18 Jan, 2015 01:46pm
Ever thought of what goes on in the mind of someone whose job is to defuse bombs?
Updated 04 Jan, 2015 07:24pm
With Kiran School, Sabina has created an oasis of sanity in a neighbourhood where others have packed up and left.
Updated 21 Dec, 2014 05:24pm
A son of the soil returns to Thar to turn his dream of ‘clean drinking water for all’ into a reality.
Updated 07 Dec, 2014 04:59pm
Abdul Ghani's work bought him face to face with the timber and land mafia who cut down the mangroves and sold the land.
Updated 23 Nov, 2014 02:22pm
The kids cleaning our car windows, scrounging for garbage have names, families and a story.
Updated 12 Nov, 2014 05:16pm
Bullets and bullies don’t scare Dr Haider and Veeru; their mission and calling is far too important to compromise.
Published 26 Oct, 2014 04:00pm
In a society of competing dualisms, it is not hard to imagine the challenges that people with disabilities must face.
Published 12 Oct, 2014 06:54am
Would you believe that in the heart of southern Punjab, there is a village that is now ‘domestic violence free’?
Updated 28 Sep, 2014 07:04am
Two police officers from KP defy every preconceived notion anyone may have about the capability of Pakistani women.
Updated 16 Sep, 2014 03:26pm
In the SIUT, there is an angel named Zainab
Published 17 Aug, 2014 06:10am
Even in this day and age, brick kiln workers and their families are mercilessly bought and treated like slaves
Published 03 Aug, 2014 07:15am
