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Women Pressure Afghan Government
by Aditi Bhaduri, India
April 2014! It hangs like a Damocles’ sword over the Indian sub-continent. While Afghans may be the immediate beneficiaries the ramifications of what April 2014 denotes will be felt far and wide – in Pakistan, India, and maybe even further. April 5, 2014 Afghans will go to the polls to decide their future against a resurgent Taliban. And in 2014 the USA will be withdrawing its troops from the country, leaving the precarious security only in the hands of local forces...
Language Discrimination in Pakistan
by Zubeida Mustafa, Pakistan
Asifa, 12, lives in Karachi, the port city in southern Pakistan. She is a child of the lesser gods. That means that she is malnourished and falls ill frequently. Her home is a modest two-room house with no running water in which her family of eight lives. She is fortunate to go to a better school than the public sector institutions many of her friends and neighbors attend – that is, if they go to school at all. Being the first generation school-goer in her family, Asifa’s is not the carefree existence a child deserves...
