Off the Record
CLP journalists take you on the road with personal stories of reporting from Pakistan. Sponsored by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Karachi Nights
No matter how frenzied the exhaust-coated sun-saturated day is in Karachi—this city really lives at night.
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Behind the Scenes Update from Karachi Pakistan Video blog from the CLP's multimedia team
The CLP team takes a break to reflect on the first half of the Pakistan: Hearts and Minds reporting project.
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Categories: Pakistan, Watch, Blogs, The Media, Politics and Conflict
Letting the Terrorists Win
Pale columns of smoke are rising from a sea of blue tents stretching into the distance of the flat khaki plain that is Jellozai, a refugee camp eight miles outside of Peshawar, home to an estimated 43,000 people fleeing violence in the tribal regions not far from here.
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Categories: Pakistan, Blogs, The Media, Poverty and Development, Politics and Conflict
Hanging with the Ladies
In the gray light of my first morning in Pakistan, the thick salty smell of sulfur introducing me to the seaside city of Karachi, the streets were full of men. With few exceptions it was men congregating in front of the still dark airport, men piled onto buses carnival-decorated with Technicolor and chrome, and men weaving through the thickening traffic on motorbikes and rickshaws.
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Categories: Pakistan, Read, Blogs, Education, Human Rights, Gender, Politics and Conflict
Fear Factor: Pakistan
I’ve become terrified of my e-mail. I’ve always been a little skittish of the inbox, never knowing what that first login might bring to my day – an outraged critique of a recent article, a Facebook request from a long-lost ex-boyfriend – but in the weeks leading up to our departure, my crowded inbox has set my stomach lurching in newly anxious ways as I sift through daily accounts of the chaos that has touched down in Pakistan.
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Categories: Pacific Northwest, Pakistan, USA, Read, Blogs, Education, The Media, Politics and Conflict
Pakistan: Education at a Crossroads
Pakistan gets plenty of press for bomb attacks and international terrorist threats. After two months traveling the country last year, CLP journalists found that the ongoing crisis here has its roots in a corrupt and collapsing education system that is feeding poverty, discontent and violence.
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