Investigative Reports

Murad Khan Mohamad: The ongoing closure of the Pak-Afghan border has severely disrupted vegetable production in Mohmand tribal district, pushing farmers into a deep financial crisis. Once a hub of high-quality vegetable farming,…

Shah Khalid Shah Bajaur:  In the rugged tribal valleys of Bajaur, where disputes have historically escalated into generations of blood feuds, 80-year-old Muhammad Gul recalls a moment that still defines the moral fabric of his community:…

Fakhar-e-Alam Peshawa: At sunrise in a quiet village of Dera Ismail Khan, 49-year-old farmer Adnan Khan starts his motorbike and heads toward his wheat fields. What was once a routine inspection of soil and crops has, in recent…

Laksha Kumari Karachi: When I first began covering environmental stories—floods erasing villages overnight, rivers choked with industrial waste, and communities displaced by droughts they did nothing to cause—I thought the hardest part…

Murad Khan Bajaur: Mohmand District has two important trade routes with the neighboring Muslim country Afghanistan, namely Gorsal and Nawa Pass border points.  However, the major trade route was Gorsal, which has been closed since…

Shah Khalid Shah  Bajaur: In the rugged landscape of Bajaur District, memories of a once-thriving natural world still linger in the stories of its elders.  Eighty-five-year-old Malik Haroon Khan of Dele village in Khar Tehsil recalls…

Nadeem Khan Quetta: Before sunrise in Panjgur, Rahima Baloch begins her day fetching water from a distant well before the desert heat climbs above 45°C.  But the 32-year-old mother of four is already exhausted. Years of drought have…

Shah Khalid Shah Bajaur: Uzma Namoos Khan, a resident of Nawagai tehsil in the tribal district of Bajaur, has lived her life with a hearing impairment. But the disability did not stop her from pursuing education and building hopes…

Nadeem Khan Quetta: South Asia is heating up. Summers are getting hotter and longer, with extreme heatwaves increasingly becoming the new normal across Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India. But for many people, this is not just an abstract…

Fakhar e Alam Peshawar: As the first golden rays of dawn stretch across the fertile fields of tehsil Razar in Swabi, 40-year-old farmer Naseer Khan begins his day earlier than most, baskets in hand, plucking strawberries that will soon…