Pakistan

The bathroom singers of Karachi

How a group of women finds joy and nostalgia in the crowded capital “We are all bathroom singers here,” says Sehr, one of the women at a gathering called Sing...

Karachi: Surveillance, panic and chaos: the price the people pay for safer streets

New AI traffic cameras peer down on crumbling, flooded streets. This costly digital dragnet has sparked mass paranoia, breeding far more absurd bureaucratic farce than actual civic order....

Digitising Urdu’s cascading calligraphy

An interview with Abeera Kamran and Zeerak Ahmed, by Sophia Smith Galer...

After the August floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Translator’s Karachi-based contributing editor and journalist Sanam Maher, looks at BBC Urdu’s coverage of recent flooding in Pakistan....

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