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February 20, 2020 | Foreign Policy
Pakistan’s Success Story
How Pakistan's Swat Valley went from basket case to on the mend.
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December 16, 2019 | VQR Online
An Outsider’s Perspective
Monika Bulaj documents endangered rituals around the world.
December 08, 2019 | Medium
OnSpec Podcast - The Badlands - Pakistan's Tribal Areas
Umar Farooq on the backstory to the war on terror: In Pakistan's tribal areas, locals are working to gain basic rights, while being caught between U.S. drones, the Taliban, and Pakistan's military.
August 20, 2019 | VICE News
Intimate Images of One of the Largest Refugee Populations in the World
Photos from Sara Hylton document displacement among Afghan children living at the I-12 settlement in Pakistan.
August 12, 2019 | GlobalGeo News
Pakistan: The Green Gold Rush (French)
This report illustrates the incredible reforestation work undertaken in Pakistan in recent years by current Prime Minister Imran Khan to counter the effects of climate change.
February 08, 2019 | National Geographic
The Rising Voices of Women in Pakistan
From registering women voters to negotiating rights, women in Pakistan are redefining roles despite resistance from the state, religious institutions, and other women.
January 28, 2019 | Pulitzer Center
Lost at Home: Pakistan's Ahmadi Muslims
Ahmadi Muslims are prohibited from "posing as Muslims" under Pakistan's constitution. Stranded in-between both societal and state-sanctioned persecution, Ahmadis are left without a home.
November 14, 2018 | The Atlantic
Why Young Pakistanis Are Learning Chinese
By investing billions of dollars in Pakistan and dozens of other countries, China is gaining cultural cachet worldwide.
October 12, 2018 | Pulitzer Center
Rabwah: Home to Pakistan's Minority Ahmadi Muslims
Followers of the Muslim Ahmadiyya sect continue to face religious persecution within Pakistan. Many relocate to the city of Rabwah, their only safe haven.
May 01, 2018 | Places Journal
These Studies Led to Further Studies
The derelict Karachi Circular Railway is a landscape in limbo — a place for hunting scorpions, playing snooker, manufacturing furniture, and burying the dead.
April 02, 2018 | Vox
India and Pakistan Are Quietly Making Nuclear War More Likely
Both India and Pakistan are arming their submarines with nukes.
March 12, 2018 | Medium
Seeing Karachi Through Its Abandoned Public Railway System: An Interview with Ivan Sigal
Ivan Sigal is interviewed by Medium about his multimedia project documenting the current reality of the Karachi Circular Railway.
The Founder of Jaish-E-Mohammad
A profile of Masood Azhar, the founder of the Jaish-e-Muhammed extremist group.
Swat: A Success Story
Ten years after Taliban rule, Malala's hometown is a success story.
Afghan and Pakistani Women Against Extremism
What do Afghan and Pakistani women see as the roots of violent extremism, and how are some of them working together to build peace? Who are the women who are fighting to be more than mere victims?
Billion Trees in Pakistan
When Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province announced its intention to plant a billion trees, many were skeptical, but it became the first amongst 45 targets set for the BONN Challenge to achieve its goal.
China's Footprint in Pakistan
Will China's investment in Pakistan deliver the broad-based growth, prosperity, and jobs it promises? How will it reshape local politics, infrastructure, and the environment?
Pakistan: The Multifaceted Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Community
For simply practicing their faith, Ahmadi Muslims are persecuted in Pakistan, but they find strength in numbers in Rabwah, a remote Ahmadi-majority village where victims often relocate.
The Nuclearization of the Indian Ocean
The nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan is about to move into dangerous waters.
Born This Way: The Birth of Khawaja Sara Culture in Pakistan
Where does the transgender—or Khawaja Sara—community stand socially, politically and religiously in Pakistan? Why are they viewed both as bearers of good fortune and as outcasts?
Mainstreaming Pakistan's Tribal Areas
Even as they grapple with US drones, the Pakistani military, and al-Qaeda and Taliban jihadis, the seven million residents of FATA are struggling to bring the rule of law to their land.
Navigating the Death Penalty in Pakistan
To counter terrorism, the Pakistani government has started executing all those convicted of terrorism. But they have overlooked whether those convicted received a fair trial or not.
More Than Makeup: Transgender Transparency in Pakistan
A third gender lives in Pakistan, earning livelihoods through begging, sex work and dancing. But a closer look uncovers the diverse identities and daily realities comprising this trans community.
Polio's Last Stand
After dozens of vaccination workers were killed in Afghanistan, polio once again began to spread into the borderlands. The same strain is now re-surfacing in Syria.
October 13, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet The Journalist: Umar Farooq
Collective punishment is often reported on, but Pakistan's tribal areas are one of the few places where it is written into the law itself. What is life like for people on the ground?
April 11, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet The Journalist: Kit R. Roane
Producer Kit R. Roane discusses the curious history and continuing legacy of the "Nuclear Winter," a Cold War theory that still resonates today.
October 30, 2015 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Matthieu Aikins
Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, is home to a virulent breed of gangster politics.
July 28, 2015 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Tim McGirk
Veteran journalist Tim McGirk explains how an ill-considered CIA plan to catch Osama bin Laden in Pakistan led to a polio outbreak that spread beyond borders.
April 03, 2014 | Meet the Journalist
Beenish Ahmed on Pakistan's Education Crisis
Journalist Beenish Ahmed discusses what drove her to report on education in Pakistan and why it's such a vexed and critical question for the future of the country.
October 23, 2012 | Meet the Journalist
Journalist Tariq Mir on the Rise of Hard Faith in Kashmir
Journalist Tariq Mir reports from Kashmir on the rise of a Saudi-backed Salafi movement and its growing conflict with the region's traditional Sufism.
June 21, 2012 | Meet the Journalist
Lessons Learned: Hilke Schellmann Discusses Reporting in Pakistan
Pulitzer Center grantee Hilke Schellmann shares the lessons she learned while reporting on a long-term project in Pakistan—one of the most dangerous place for journalists.
November 22, 2011 | Meet the Journalist
Covering Honor Killings in Pakistan
Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellman reporting on so-called honor killings in Pakistan where women are seen as property of men.
May 25, 2018 | Awards
Multiple Student Fellows Selected for 2017 SPJ Mark of Excellence Awards
Several Student Fellows are awarded the 2017 Society of Professional Journalists regional Mark of Excellence Awards.
May 03, 2018 | Education news
This Week in Education: Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
This week: celebrating World Press Freedom Day, explaining how melting Arctic ice causes extreme weather, and reflecting on the new memorial to lynching victims in Alabama.
April 03, 2018 | Newsletter
This Week: Pakistan and India are Becoming Nuclear Rivals
This week: Why Pakistan and India are equipping their submarines with nuclear-tipped missiles, what life is like for ethnic minority Vietnamese living in Cambodia, and how armed groups have filled a power vacuum in the Central African Republic.
March 10, 2017 | General news
Call for Applications: Freelancer Hostile Environment Training
The Pulitzer Center, along with The New York Times and ACOS (A Culture of Safety Alliance), is providing hostile-environment training for up to 31 freelance journalists.
October 07, 2016 | General news
Facing Risk
This film explores the risks sometimes associated with reporting and the conversations reporters wish they had started back home. David Rohde, Michael Scott Moore and Diane Foley are featured.
May 30, 2016 | General news, Education news
Pulitzer Center 2016 Student Fellows Announced
2016 fellows report on a range of complex issues from around the world—from global health and perceptions of identity to environmental degradation and innovation.
April 16, 2015
The Orenda Project: Bringing Education to Pakistani Slums
Four university students initiated the Orenda Project to bring education to Afghan Basti in the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, a remote slum inhabited mostly by Afghani refugees.
March 02, 2015 | General news, Project news
This Week: Strange Twists in the War on Polio
The use of Pakistani health workers in the hunt for Osama bin Laden may have set back the battle against polio—and contributed to a resurgence of the disease in Iraq and Syria.
October 06, 2014 | Project news, Awards
"Outlawed in Pakistan" Wins Emmy for Outstanding Research
Pulitzer Center-supported film tells story of rape and a struggle for justice in Pakistan.
July 28, 2014 | Project news, Awards
"Sea Change" and "Outlawed in Pakistan" Named as Emmy Nominees
Pulitzer Center documentary and multimedia projects nominated in three categories at the 35th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards.
April 28, 2014 | Awards
"Outlawed in Pakistan" Wins David A. Andelman and Pamela Title Award
Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann win an Overseas Press Club award for their story of rape and a struggle for justice in Pakistan.
September 17, 2013 | General news, Project news
"Outlawed in Pakistan" Screens During Week-Long Pulitzer Center Film Festival
Join us for multiple screenings of "Outlawed in Pakistan," a story that shows the extraordinary strength of one young woman in the face of societal pressure and violence.
February 27, 2019 | Middle School, High School
Women and Nonviolent Resistance
This lesson plan uses resources about women around the world leading nonviolent movements to fight against violence and injustice.
May 01, 2018 | All Grades
5 Lesson Plans to Celebrate World Press Freedom Day
In celebration of World Press Freedom Day, we've compiled our top five lesson plans on the importance of a free media, and how journalists and citizens stand up for it around the world.
October 07, 2016 | High School, College
Facing Risk: Journalists and their Families
This lesson, designed for journalists and journalism students, uses the film "Facing Risk" to guide a conversation about the impact of reporting dangerous stories on journalists and their families.
September 26, 2016 | All Grades
Jewell: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
September 25, 2016 | All Grades
Resources for Educators at RJ Reynolds High School
This lesson provides resources for teachers in Winston-Salem, NC as they create lesson plans connected to the "Dispatches" exhibition at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA).
June 17, 2016 | All Grades
Funston: Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's "Guernica"
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
March 23, 2016 | Middle School, High School
Interpreting Global Issues Through Picasso's 'Guernica'
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
March 04, 2016 | High School
The Dangers of Drunk Driving
Students read global news articles and design a mock campaign addressing the issue of driving under the influence.
October 12, 2015 | All Grades
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
