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Dignity on sale for a bag of flour

Asem Mustafa Awan
Islamabad: They are poor. They are hungry. They have very little money even to buy a bag of flour. They suffer indignity of standing in queue for hours to receive a bag of flour at a government rate.
They live

Unending Quest for Justice 

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad:Saeeda Sultan refuses to be denied justice. She was five years of age when Pakistan was created. For half a century she has spent countless hours in the corridors of courts in pursuit of justice. During this…

Pak Youth: An Opportunity Not Burden

Shazia Mehboob Islamabad: The young man in this picture is Saifur Rehman, a 2nd-year student at a technical institute in Haripur, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The youth had a dream to become a software engineer but the inability of his father to…

Refuse to be defeated

Asem Mustafa Awan
Islamabad: The three siblings on the donkey cart are the trash pickers. They symbolise hope and pain. Hope: They don’t beg and they don’t steal. They have not given up on life. Instead, they have embraced hard toil for