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Road Safety

When I had a car I preferred to drive 400 or so miles from Islamabad to my village. This journey used to take around 10-12 hours. We traveled during the day for reasons of safety and better visibility on roads, roads that were not in the best of conditions and had two way traffic on them, including carts and bikes. Now that I didn't have a car, there were two options: (1) take a bus from Rawalpindi to DG Khan and get a lift to the village, 10 miles towards the Indus, (2) take a Daewoo coach from Rawalpindi to Multan, then another bus or a mini to DG Khan (60 miles) and finally a lift from DG Khan to the village. Daewoo buses are believed to be better because they have a ‘hostess’ onboard who offers you a drink and some snacks. The driver wears a uniform and a cap like an aeroplane captain  and there is an armed security guard onboard. This service was started by a South Korean multinational which also built Pakistan’s first motorway M2 (from Lahore to Islamabad). With Daewoo's

Story of life: two young men

The young man being described is the video below is employed in the government emergency service Rescue 1122. He brings an infant to the emergency ward in a hospital in small city in Punjab. The child appears to be unconscious or losing vital signs. The man is seen as trying his best to reach professional help to save this child's life. Doing his duty diligently to the best of his abilities. The other video below is of a man recording himself before going on a killing spree in a small city in Punjab. He appears to be very upset about the fact that these days Muslim are Muslim-in-name-only, they have given up challenging those who are not on the right path and that the clerics who preach peace and prayers (namaz) are mistaken and weak. He appear to imply that the real salvation lies in waging a war against all those who are not on the 'right path' , regardless of whether they are Muslim or non-Muslim.   In the second part of the video he talks about his discontentment with t

Webinar: Food insecurity and nutrition in Pakistan

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