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Karachi Stampede

Women killed in search of food as flour and sugar crisis rolls across Pakistan.

Fashionistas Defy Taliban?

Pakistan's first ever fashion week is being heralded internationally as a blow to the Taliban. The fashionistas say otherwise.

Dying for Food

Never mind the Taliban. It's the price of flour that killing Pakistanis. Nineteen women died trying to get flour rations for their families. With food prices at their highest in three decades, the food security situation has become alarming. This report takes a look at the issues that are affecting food security in Pakistan through the life of one of the families of the stampede victims.

Swat in Brooklyn: The War Comes Home

Refugees from Swat are part of a smally but growing community in Brooklyn whose families are trapped back home between the Taliban and the Pakistani military in the troubled Northwestern Frontier Province. Some have lost relatives the Taliban, others to the military. One family chose to share their grief on learning that a beloved nephew had been killed in the latest army operation in Swat. He was, like others, part of the significant "collateral damage" that has been the hallmark of this conf...

Burlesque in Billyburg

Love on a Wire: sending money to Pakistan