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@NPR 's woman in Mumbai, covering India & South Asia. Ex-NYT, Ex-AP; Ex-IsPal, Middle East, AfPak. dhadid @npr .org not very active here

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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January 1 is New Years Day in the West and much of the world. In Pakistan and Afghanistan, it's a popular birthday. Why? It comes down to how you see time. A story for my father.

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The reason why there are many Jan. 1 birthdays in Pakistan and Afghanistan

January 1 is a common birthday in Pakistan and Afghanistan because 1/1 is an easy date for people to remember in cultures that don't follow Western standards of time.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

2 years

I'm in northern Pakistan meeting people who lost their homes in unprecedented, devastating floods. But it seems many lives were saved, because the district commissioner got mosques to broadcast flood warnings, she issued text messages and she and her staff even went door-to-door

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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There's allegations of vote rigging in Pakistan elections with commentators in particular pointing to this result: in a key constituency, there's apparently more counted votes than voters, and a whole bunch of candidates didn't even vote for themselves.

@AliHasanain

علی حسنین Ali Hasanain

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I expect this tweet, still live, to get deleted eventually, so screenshot below for posterity. But this is the legacy of the 2024 elections: election returns shared by allegedly major political party with numbers that don't add up.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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My elderly father, a pensioner and a devout Muslim, urged me to read Surat Nouh today to keep Pakistan and other poor countries protected from more floods. He also will donate $2,000 of his pension money that he's saved for zakat to @TCFPak . Be like Aly.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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To be clear, Pakistani-controlled Jammu & Kashmir is not open to foreign media. We need military permission, known as an NOC.

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@OfficialDGISPR

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Usual blatant lies. An attempt to carve out causes belli for a misadventure to divert world attention from precarious situation & atrocities in IOJ&K. While IOJ&K faces media blackout, AJ&K is open to foreign media & UNMOGIP to visit place of their own choosing. Can you do same?

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

7 years

Sharifs supporters were chanting that Imran was a Jewish agent outside the court, underscoring the antiSemitism that can go on here

@Jemima_Khan

Jemima Goldsmith

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Good riddance! Still today spewing out those same, tired, old Zionist conspiracy theories that blighted my life in Pakistan 20 yrs ago.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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Two Palestinian men in Gaza who contracted the corona virus were in Pakistan, where they attended a conference of tens of thousands of Muslim preachers outside of Lahore in March, according to a Palestinian diplomat.

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In order to meet an IMF condition for a tranche of a bailout, the government will demand civil servants declare assets before opening bank accounts. "However, the government has excluded the army officers from the purview of the asset declarations"

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

2 years

More than 300 people died in flooding in Pakistan since monsoon rains began in mid-June. Most deaths were in a deeply poor province, Balochistan. Brings home how the poorest are suffering the greatest impacts of climate change while doing the least to contribute to it.

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Residents were telling us the scale of these floods is worse than 2010, which were, until this, the worst the country had seen. But because they had advance warning, many were able to shift to higher ground safely.

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The Pakistani high court in Lahore *suspended the sentence* of a man convicted for being part of an international pedophile ring and released him on bail. More than 650,000 pornographic pictures and videos of children were recovered from his position.

Child pornography racketeer released on bail

More than 650,000 pictures and videos related to child pornography were recovered from the convict’s possession.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

2 years

That of course does not seem possible in Balochistan, Sindh or southern Punjab because in those areas it was sudden, extremely heavy rains that triggered deadly flash flooding. It wasn't a predictable event like a riverine flood.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

I was invited to a last minute dinner by Pakistani officials. When I said I'd have to look for a babysitter, the coordinator called back and asked if I wanted to bring along my kid. Sometimes Pakistan, you are very sweet.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

Pakistan is eagerly promoting itself as a destination for international tourism. It is difficult to square that with its blasphemy laws, which today led to a Fulbright scholar being sentenced to death after years in solitary confinement, and after his first lawyer was murdered.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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Women in Pakistan are estimated to have the highest abortion rates in the world. Re-posting a story I did in 2017 on this, and another by @SiddiquiZuha . Read the thread, and read the article, and yes, I mute trolls.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

5 years

A Pakistani policewoman led the operation to take down militants who had stormed the Chinese consulate in Karachi. Her story is quite special.

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International News, Latest News, Breaking News | The Express Tribune

Latest Pakistan news, World News, breaking news updates on Pakistan, Politics, Sports, Business, Technology, Education, lifestyle & Weather on eTribune.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

A doctor at the Islamabad hospital that is managing covid19 cases asked me to post this on social media: He says staff don't have sufficient protective gear. Only those in ICU were given gear, surgical masks and gloves, which he says isn't enough.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

Builders in Karachi took advantage of the pandemic lockdowns to raze a pre-partition Hindu temple, even after promising local Pakistani Hindu families that it would be left untouched.

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Pre-Partition temple allegedly razed in Lyari

Authorities seal site, launch inquiry as Hindu community accuses builder

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

3 years

The first batch of Pakistani police officers - all women! - have been issued their rollerskates... and their guns. Wishing them luck. Also, less broken pavements.

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Skating commandos ready to roll to control crime in Karachi

KARACHI: Anila Muhammad Aslam, a small-town girl from Pakistan’s southern Sindh province, said she was proud she could be part of a newly formed force of weapon-yielding elite commandos that will

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

7 years

Your daily dose of kindness: Jews gave Muslims the key to their synagogue after the town's mosque burned down

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

3 years

Pakistan's foreign minister tells CNN that Israel controls the media with its "deep pockets," and we end up in this back-and-forth about whether Shah Mahmoud Qureshi will condemn anti-Semitism instead of talking about, presumably, Palestinians.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

Most covid19 cases in Pakistan are *under* 50: 34% aged 18-35; and another 24% aged 35-50. I don’t know why - perhaps reflects Pakistans young demographic. Figure according to @WHO ⁩ daily update from Pakistan

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A girl, 7, was raped by a barber when she went to buy buttons. "The perpetrator’s clan offered to settle this dispute by suggesting that someone from the victim’s family rapes a minor from their own family." The victims family said they were not animals.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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Hi @OfficialDGISPR , can you please clarify what it means for people to be "brought to justice through trials under relevant laws of Pakistan including Pakistan Army Act and Official Secret Act." We are trying to call your office too. Diaa, NPR.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

What an image. To see the young woman who is trying to change the world by skipping school alongside the young woman who risked her life to attend school. What a world we live in.

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Malala Yousafzai

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She’s the only friend I’d skip school for.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

2 years

I suppose the thing I find most confusing about the former PM's claim, without evidence, that he was ousted by the Biden administration, is why then, did he meet with @IlhanMN ? Did he raise this claim with her? What did she say?

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My question for the Biden Administration: By indulging in a regime change conspiracy to remove a democratically elected PM of a country of over 220 mn people to bring in a puppet PM, do you think you have lessened or increased anti-American sentiment in Pakistan?

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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The stomping ground of Pakistani elites in the capital pays less than one cent monthly per acre in rent. Effectively, poor folks are subsidising the polo club, pool & cinema of a place they are not allowed to enter and could never dream of joining.

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An elite club that pays Rs3 rent per acre

ISLAMABAD: In the heart of the federal capital is situated a vast tract of land measuring 352 acres which were granted on lease for 53 years. Located there is the Islamabad Club where the entry of...

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

2 years

My Pakistani colleague, while eating very decent humous, asked me if it had cheese in it, and if that was why it was so delicious. Jesus wept.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

5 years

Now Australian have a taste of how Arabs feel when Tom Friedman writes about the Middle East

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Jennine K

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no bari, we call them pools and parks, and I can’t bring myself to comment on the rest of that piece of fiction in the NYT otherwise I’ll convulse

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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Just a nod to this reporter's poise and humility amid a very stressful situation -- something war reporters have long practiced. But America isn't at war.

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CNN

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Minnesota police arrest CNN reporter and camera crew as they report from protests in Minneapolis

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These sorts of attacks in Pakistan are a constant reminder that poorly-paid security guards are often the first casualties, and it's unclear to me if their families receive any compensation

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

5 years

I'm starting maternity leave today. So if, umm, @ArifCRafiq and all the folks who commented would like to crap on what I just said, please feel free. For the next few months, I'll be attending to an actual, crying baby.

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Well my girl had a cameo on @Npr ’s @NPRMichel . Rabbit woke up bawling and barged into my office as I talked about the ouster of Imran Khan as PM. Here we are. Life isn’t perfect. Radio isn’t either. Would you have it any other way.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

6 years

all the images of Pakistani women voting today are glorious

@hasilbizenjo

Hasil Bizenjo

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Our brave sisters from Panjgur have come out in great numbers to vote, despite threats repeated terrorist threats.

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Remarkable: An aide to the former Pakistani PM confirms a leaked audio call in which his party figures out how to torpedo an IMF bailout that Pakistan desperately needs, and which the former PM's government actually negotiated. All this as Pakistan faces unprecedented floods

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Nadir Guramani

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Dr Mazari confirms the audio call.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

What happens when women lead politics: Finland just mandated 7 months paid parental leave. For you, and your partner. No partner? Take 14 months to handle being a new mum, and dad.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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Be careful with the assumption that only one side of the US political divide treats the press with hostility. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Criticized for Excluding Press From 2 Town Hall Meetings via @NYTimes

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Criticized for Excluding Press From 2 Town Hall Meetings (Published 2018)

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist candidate for Congress in New York, called the controversy a “nonstory.”

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1 year

Pakistani forces lob tear gas at the residence of ex-PM Imran Khan, ostensibly to arrest him to appear before courts in multiple cases. Khans supporters say it’s to try curb his influence and delay elections which he would likely emerge as the strongest party. Video from ⁦PTI

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

Wait, PTV fired two people for getting (an important) map wrong. How many people have been fired from the Railways Ministry for causing the deaths of dozens, if not hundreds of people, through negligence? Why is a map more important than people's lives?

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PTV sacks 2 officials for airing 'incorrect' map of Pakistan

PTI ministers Fawad Chaudhry and Shireen Mazari were among those who had called for an inquiry into the incident.

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3 years

Pakistani women generally dress very conservatively, at least in baggy pants, baggy shirts & scarves. It's very hard to find a Pakistani woman wearing "very few clothes" And yet, they're sexually harassed and assaulted on the streets, on public transport and in the work place

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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What a wonderful man, Abdullah Malik, who is planting trees across the urban desert of Karachi to honor the victims of a plane crash, and to provide shade to the city's residents.

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devastating interview by a former USAID director. what the U.S is air dropping into gaza amounts to half a truck full of aid, with no idea who will take it -- most likely the strongest individuals, and not the ones most desperately in need.

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Fmr USAID director: Aid airdrops into Gaza 'embarrassing' for US govt - ABC listen

The US has begun air dropping aid into Gaza, as the UN warns over a quarter of the population is "one step away from famine".

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Newspaper article alleges Pakistan's Marie Antoinette managed to enrich her family enormously during the government of former PM @ImranKhanPTI

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Farah Khan & family’s riches swell in PTI regime

ISLAMABAD: Farhat Shahzadi aka Farah Khan and her husband Ahsan Iqbal Jameel exchanged millions of rupees’ gifts and loans during the PTI government, reveal documents.The documents suggest...

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Germany, the EU and the US all express concerns over curbs on freedom of expression in the run-up to Pakistan's general elections. I'm baffled as to why they didn't say anything when those very-well publicised curbs were taking place.

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Hamid Mir حامد میر

6 years

Germany also expressed concerns over curbs on the freedom of media before the #Election2018

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

3 years

One of Pakistan's wealthiest man doesn't need your Covid test.

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Malik Riaz, 2 others refused to give samples for Covid-19 test: Lahore airport manager

Official says the property tycoon and his wife refused to give samples even when a team of health staff went to his residence.

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Forced abortions. Kicking women until they can't have babies. Sterilising them. Taking them away from their children. “It’s not immediate, shocking, mass-killing on the spot type genocide, but it’s slow, painful, creeping genocide"

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A Pakistani minor had to record his own sexual assault at the hands of an "elder and a pious man" in a madrassa to be believed. Now he says his life is in danger.

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Lahore police register FIR against Mufti Azizur Rehman for sexually assaulting student

A harrowing video clip showing the cleric allegedly sexually assaulting the complainant was widely shared on social media.

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I was interviewing an Afghan feminist about the ban on girls attending secondary school and she said her friend's daughter was so depressed at home that they decided to convince a primary school to let her sit grade 6 again. Imagine.

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The last time the Pakistani prime minister blamed women for being raped by not being modest enough, his team quickly insisted he was misunderstood. SO in English: "Men aren't robots" he says, when asked if what women wear has an impact on their sexual violence

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Anaya Khan

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Imran Khan is r*pe apologist and hates women.

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Pakistan's first transgender school: while critics point out segregating shouldn't be a solution, it remains an opportunity for Pakistani trans people to study in a safe(r) place -- so many were bullied out of school, or dropped out after being kicked out of home.

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Mubashir Zaidi

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Congrats @GovtofPunjabPK for establishing first transgender school in Punjab. More schools will open in Bahawslpur and Dera Ghazi Khan #EducationForAll

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@WajahatAli Oh come on, it's Pakistan. (cue the mango wars) But really: Pakistan. No contest.

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"It was the first time many Pakistanis could recall such a brazen move against the military." Jawdropping scenes in Pakistan today with supporters of the former prime minister Imran Khan appearing to overrun a gate leading to military headquarters.

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Imran Khan, Pakistan's former prime minister, is arrested in Islamabad

Paramilitary forces arrested Khan at a court in Islamabad, where he was facing corruption charges. The arrest has triggered rare pushback against the military, the country's most powerful institution.

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I worked with Rashed Rashid for years out of the AP Gaza bureau. He's a war-hardened cameraman who does not take careless risks. He's also a fine reporter, a gentleman, and a sweetheart who once rescued a box of baby chicks and helped raise them in our office

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FPA STATEMENT: Shooting of AP cameraman in Gaza: We deplore the shooting of any journalist and urge the army to conduct a thorough and credible investigation. We expect serious disciplinary action if wrongdoing is discovered.

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I was away for two weeks, and out of curiosity, I spent a lot of time interviewing locals about the impact of wild-west tourism in Pakistan (spoiler alert: bad). But one of the last women we met had a different issue -- one that often gets pushed into dusty corners because, women

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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I just breastfed my baby while editing a story on Kashmir. Women can, do, and will work with babies when all childcare options collapse

@samirasawlani

Samira Sawlani

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Kenyan Lawmaker Zulekha Hassan was ordered out of Parliament today when she arrived with a baby. Ms Hassan stated that she did not have a choice due to an emergency & that the issue wld not have arisen if childcare facilities were available at Parliament.

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The article adds: "which is discriminatory and highlights one of the reasons behind current economic mess in Pakistan where privileged classes are protected."

Loan talks revived after govt bows to IMF diktat

Foreign lender mission to arrive next week

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This is interesting. The PM's advisor on climate change @aminattock says plans embedded in the the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor for coal projects have been shelved "and replaced them by zero carbon and indigenous hydel projects of 3700MW capacity."

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Pakistan meets UN climate change goal a decade ahead of deadline

Islamabad: Though among the countries most vulnerable to global warming, Pakistan has passed a crucial milestone on the road to environmental protection by meeting the overarching United Nations...

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People horrified that Russian forces hit a maternity hospital didn't cover Syria where government forces deliberately targeted hospitals. All. The. Time. Russian forces sometimes did the bombing, according to @MSF .

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An Italian priest who served Pakistan's poor for six decades died of Covid-19. Aldino Amato built six churches, three schools and hostels, two training centres for the visually impaired, two housing colonies, and a women's college.

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Revered Italian missionary dies of Covid-19 in Lahore after serving Pakistan for 6 decades

The 90-year-old priest was laid to rest in a grave he built for himself in a parish house in Okara 6 Chak village.

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The UN warns it will have to reduce the number of Afghans it is helping - from 38% to 8% by June because of a lack of funds. Nearly all Afghans are going hungry, some 20,000 are in a state of famine, and half the population needs urgent help.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

Priorities: The Pakistani minister of climate change @zartajgulwazir visits a health facility wearing a coveted N95 mask, while the actual health workers around her are in flimsy surgical masks. Thank you @DrMatikhan for the tip.

@InsafPKTV

Insaf TV

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ڈیرہ غازیخان: وزیر مملکت برائے موسمیاتی تبدیلی زرتاج گل وزیر نے قرنطینہ سنٹر ڈیرہ غازیخان کا دورہ کیا کرونا وائرس کے خلاف دن رات بہادری سے لڑنے والے تمام ڈاکٹرز اور نرسز کو خیراج تحسین پیش کیا اور ڈاکٹرز سے تفصیلی گفتگو کی۔ @zartajgulwazir

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

5 years

And that's why I'm talking back. Sometimes, the snark and the rudeness on the internet is ignorable. Sometimes, though, as a woman, I feel obliged to push back. Because we get so much of this crap levelled against us. And yet we work so much harder.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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Hi, @nytimes headline writers. Your opinion writer did a piece about **Tanzania** not **the continent of Africa** If you can put Germany or France in a headline, you can write "Tanzania" and even, gently, educate your readers (like me) about the place

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the majority COVID19 cases in the Pakistani city of Lahore are in upscale areas: "they are stubbornly continuing their kitty parties even today and not following social distancing rules.” Also, they are influential enough to demand tests.

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Lahore’s Defence and Cantt report majority COVID-19 cases

Majority of the coronavirus cases being reported in Lahore are from the upscale Defence and Cantt areas of the city, revealed an official of Punjab’s provincial disaster management authority. As of...

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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Before the rain fell, thousands turned up in #Peshawar for a rally supporting the #PashtunTahafuzMovement . Men and women mobbed us with photos of their loved ones - disappeared. Pashtuns told me they want the same rights as other Pakistanis.

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My latest for @NPR : "There is no war on terror. There is only terror" Caught Between The Military And Militants, Pakistan's Pashtuns Fight For Rights -- And how Pakistan responds will have wide-ranging consequences.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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You mean those "Asians" who built the buildings you loll about in, make your meals, fix your cars, stamp your papers and who must grit their teeth at such racist abuse?

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Abdirahim Saeed

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UAE celeb says a Kuwaiti actress was misunderstood after she called for migrant workers to be deported over #Covid19 “When we say ‘migrants’ we ... mean Asians [not Arabs]” “Do you think we treat a Bengali worker & Egyptian equally? God Forbid! X 3” 🤦🏽‍♂️

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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“When at 19 Mehnaz became pregnant for the fifth time..she did what millions of Pakistani women do every year: She had an abortion.” We tried to find out why Pakistan has one of the world’s highest abortion rates, with Abdul Sattar and @Saherb1 :

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Why The Abortion Rate In Pakistan Is One Of The World's Highest

Family planning researchers point to a number of reasons. The procedure itself is legal in Pakistan — but only in limited circumstances.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

Big heart & hello to @NPR 's @NPRnewscasts people who work gruelling overnights to edit and push out breaking news from around the world. Your job is not easy

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

2 years

Congratulations to Fatima Payman, only 27, and the first Afghan-Australian, and hijab-wearing Muslim woman to win a seat in parliament.

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TOLOnews

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Fatima Payman has won Western Australia's sixth and final Senate seat. According to SBS News, Payman is "the first Afghan Australian and the first hijab-wearing Muslim woman in parliament." #TOLOnews

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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wondering who advised pakistani officials to allow widespread deforestation of its prettiest valleys to build err tourist hotels. and great job throwing the trash into the river below!

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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"Enough is enough," writes @HamidMirPAK , one of Pakistan's most prominent journalists, who was taken off air after he criticised the country's powerful military.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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Thank you @AP , the steaming, hard-working engine of legacy, fact-based American media, for counting the polls for all of us.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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Just as a journalist was abducted from the Pakistani capital, we released a story on how young women like Talia Khattak are emerging at the front of the fight against enforced disappearances in Pakistan. With @taliakhattak ; @SammiBaluch & @OmarWaraich

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The Disappeared Of Pakistan Have New Champions: Young Women

They're speaking out and leading protests to learn the fate of fathers and brothers who are among the many hundreds of disappeared Pakistanis — most of them men. Are they making a difference?

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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Those ultra-conservative preachers are known as Tablighi Jamaat or Jama'at al-Tabligh in Arabic. One reporter who follows them told me the conference gathered people from more than 90 countries. The diplomat told me the two men used buses and planes to return to Gaza.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

6 years

You again! Ustaz Shawareb, Palestinian street fighter, working hard as an obstructionist. Cats of @NPR

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

Abid shares a five-room apartment with 25 people: his brothers, their wives and children. Abid says if the coronavirus rips through here, it would be worse than Italy. He says: "There won't be enough people left to collect the bodies."

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Social Distancing Is A Distant Dream In Pakistan's Urban Slums

In a poor neighborhood in Islamabad, houses are right up against each other, families may live 10 or more in a single room and streets are narrow and crowded.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

today’s extraordinary events in Islamabad. Pashteen is an advocate for human rights, particularly of the country’s large Pashtun minority. (we profiled him for NPR a while ago).

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Mohammad Ilyas Khan

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Islamabad press club today expelled the capital’s senior journalists who had invited Manzoor Pashteen for an off the record discussion at their weekly Senior Journalists’ Forum. They held the forum at a children’s park across the road from the club.

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4 years

So I'm covering the mosques in Pakistan, and grousing about "government advisories" being useless :) Meanwhile, in Australia....

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Tom Steinfort

4 years

Social distancing in Bondi

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

6 years

My bias here is that I'm totally working class and spent my high school and university years making McDonalds hamburgers, rolling shawarmas and cleaning toilets. If anybody wants to say a toilet cleaner became an international correspondent, I'd be proud, not ashamed.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

3 years

Remember when you cover women's issues as a journalist, it is not a niche issue. You are literally covering the majority of the human race. 51% is not a specialised field.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

Umar Textiles is your good news Monday story. This guy has helped throw into place a whole manufacturing chain to make PPE suits for about a dollar each, and they're being shipped across Pakistan.

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I started Umer textiles in 2005, when I was 16 years old with 25 stitching machines. I was not allowed on a casino floor but showcased at biggest trade fair in the world in Las Vegas, ulti shave...

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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Homes built by Hindu Pakistanis razed after it appears a local official didn't get a bribe he wanted: "They and their young children had been compelled to live outside in the blazing heat, forced to find shade under trees, and given no assistance."

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Marvi Sirmed

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On 27 May, ⁦ @HRCP87 ⁩ received reports that many houses belonging to Hindus in Yazman, Bahawalpur, were demolished by local authorities. This fact-finding report by HRCP shows how a local resident used political connections to threaten the community

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4 years

A doctor from the Pakistani province of Balochistan sent me images showing health workers equipped with only flimsy masks & gloves, including this gentleman who takes in suspected Covid19 cases. He says least 5 doctors and a health worker tested positive for the virus so far.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

3 years

The UAE ban on Pakistanis obtaining work visas appears to be an economic calamity in the making -- with sharp consequences for many Pakistani families "In the month of October alone, before the visa ban, Pakistanis sent $504 million back home from UAE"

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A dilemma for Pakistan as UAE cuts off work visas

A vital source of employment and income has been severed after Pakistan ran afoul of its powerful benefactors.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

2 years

So @NPR 's @AndrewLimbong has an excellent piece on the white supremacy embedded in some of the coverage out of Ukraine, on the horror of white people fleeing war and seeking asylum "this isn't some developing country" and so on Have a listen

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Why Ukrainians are being treated differently than refugees from other countries

As neighboring countries let in Ukrainian refugees, Africans living and studying in Ukraine say they're facing discrimination at border crossings. Media coverage of the invasion is part of the reason.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

5 years

I was accused by @ArifCRafiq , non-resident fellow @MiddleEastInst of being unoriginal. In the comments below, some guy calls me stupid - why else would I be sent to Pakistan? Arif seems to agree with a guy who calls me lazy, & he himself fully expects I'll do a brewery story.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

Every few years, I meet women who ride bicycles in defiance of the world around them. This time, Pakistani women started coming out because the world stayed home. "it took a pandemic for girls to feel safe to ride bikes on their own"

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In Pakistan, Women Find Freedom In Quarantine Through Bikes

Like many places, Pakistan has seen a surge in bike riding during the pandemic. But the face of cyclists is changing in this conservative society as women venture onto the roads.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

1 year

the only good news i can see today. Also Ramadan Kareem:

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Benazir Kafalat amount increased to Rs8,500

Beneficiaries of Islamabad, Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan will get their payment amount from Habib bank ATMs

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

3 years

Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan will visit Kabul - can't think of the last time a Pakistani PM made a visit like this. (You can remind me!) Hopefully, this is good news for both countries.

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TOLOnews

3 years

Sediqqi says Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan will visit #Kabul this week and will meet with President Ashraf Ghani. #Afghanistan

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

All the Hindu community in Islamabad did was build a boundary wall to demarcate their property, while waiting for permission to build a temple. Vigilante extremists have knocked down the walls, religious clerics issued fatwas, the PM kicked the matter to a committee...

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Alia Chughtai

4 years

Truly embarrassing

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

3 years

How to remember a photographer:

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Danish Siddiqui

3 years

THREAD. Afghan Special Forces, the elite fighters are on various frontlines across the country. I tagged along with these young men for some missions. Here is what happened in Kandahar today while they were on a rescue mission after spending the whole night on a combat mission.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

1 year

Sylvia is the OG of the foreign desk at @NPR and it's hard to imagine this institution without her, her gorgeously distinctive voice and her brilliant reporting.

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Mary Louise Kelly

1 year

Hard to know where to start to say how much Sylvia Poggioli will be missed @npr . Thank you for 41 years bringing us the news from Italy & the world beyond!

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

6 years

In Kasur, where Zainab Amin, 7, was raped and murdered, neighbors of her alleged killer said he used to stand to their rooftop to watch the girls at the pink-painted primary school across the alleyway. A teacher complained, twice about it. His family didn’t think it was weird.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

6 years

We went to Kasur, the hometown of Zainab Amin. I tell Mary Louise Kelly of @NPR ’s All Things Considered that we found fearful parents, escorted children - and police vowing to do better.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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But the thing I'm most proud of in 2018, is that I did most of those stories while pregnant. Much of that time, I was also completely alone. Without my partner, without family, and not much medical care.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

6 years

Rather than reflecting the will of the people, the result is expected to yield an ungainly coalition engineered by army generals, with the support of a clearly partisan judiciary and a thoroughly manipulated media.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

3 years

A lawyer is suing over a couple who refused to stop kissing on a Pakistani flight. He seems particularly shocked it happened "in the presence of families." I can't wait to tell him how babies are made

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Couple caught 'kissing' on Airblue flight

A couple was allegedly caught kissing each other on an causing an uproar on the domestic Air Blue flight.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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I had an (Arab) ex-boyfriend call my mother and insist I was a prostitute and a whore. His intent was to try provoke an honor killing because my parents are very conservative and he thought they would murder me.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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This is a great start to a vexxing, horrible problem across the Mideast, where men can manipulate women they have been intimate with, or want to be intimate with, by threatening to tell their fathers about their relationship, or imagined relationship.

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

one of the striking things about the International Women's Day march in Islamabad is how mixed it was: men, women and transgender Pakistanis all mushed into a tiny space, celebrating the idea that everybody is equal. Sometimes covering Pakistan is hard, and then its wonderful

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

4 years

The @dcislamabad says people should pray at home. Myself and my NPR colleague took a drive around Islamabad for prayer times. Of 20 mosques we saw, 19 had congregations of several dozen people.

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اسلام آباد میں تمام سے گزارش ہے کہ جمعہ کی نماز گھر میں ہی ادا کریں ۔ مساجد اپنے عملہ کی حد تک کھلی رہیں گی۔

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Diaa Hadid ضياء حديد

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What a wonderful essay on Sicily's Islamic past -- and the influences it still bears today, including granita, lemons and Indo-Arab numbers, by @DalrympleWill

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William Dalrymple on Sicily’s Islamic past

From his base in an ancient villa built for an emir, the historian seeks out the legacy of the island’s Arab rulers

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