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As the first notes of the Quran, sung by a diminutive imam in an embroidered prayer cap, fill the Westin Bellevue's ornate Grand Ballroom, a sea of hands moves to cover heads.
At the hotel, 450 people from Seattle's growing Pakistani community have gathered to help the troubled country they left behind.
It's been a tough year for Pakistan.
Thirteen-year-old Humiera Kausar's oversized sneakers hurry over piles of granite boulders and through scrubby pines bristling with last night's rain. A headscarf and pink shawl are wound tightly around her small frame to protect against the thick mist that has settled over her high mountain village.
Her school uniform, traditional baggy pants and a long tunic, is glowing white and Humiera is careful not to soil the cuffs as she quickly makes her way along a rugged green spine of the Karakoram foothills. She's late for school and still almost four miles away.
Shaun McCanna, for the Pulitzer Center
Despite ankle deep garbage, charcoal-scribbled graffiti of machine guns and the scorched remains of squatters' fires, the dusty green chalkboard still reads "December 2, 2006," the last day that classes were held in the primary school wing of Mirza Adam Khan, a government-run compound of schools in the poor and violence plagued Karachi neighborhood of Lyari.
Shaun McCanna, for the Pulitzer Center
Shaun McCanna, for the Pulitzer Center
Shaun McCanna, for the Pulitzer Center
Shaun McCanna, for the Pulitzer Center
Aired on Foreign Exchange June 23, 2009.
A truck is a truck is a truck. Except in Pakistan, where trucks go to the beauty parlor for makeovers. Listen to this report.
Began airing on Foreign Exchange June 19, 2009
A truck depot is about the last place on earth you'd expect to find an art scene. But in Pakistan, the tradition of painting and detailing trucks adds glitter and glamour to the transport business, and offers a colorful distraction in a country tormented by war and political instability.
Video by Alex Stonehill for the Common Language Project
Produced in association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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