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Drinking Water Shortages Plague Pakistan Region
Posted by Inter Press Service: Ashfaq Yusufzai on November 15th, 2015
Inter Press Service: "We have to purchase water from the municipalities for our daily use. The water column has gone too deep and it is hard to pump out the commodity," said Muhammad Shakir, a resident of Hayatabad, an upscale town in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
The situation isn't showing any sign of improvement and is going from bad to worse, as increasingly the children don't to schools and colleges due to non-availability of water, he says.
Shakir, a businessman says the matter has been...
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Afganistan: Barren Fields Recover From Taliban
Posted by Inter Press Service: Ashfaq Yusufzai on December 30th, 2013
Inter Press Service: Ahmed Nawaz, a 55-year-old farmer in northwestern Pakistan's Swat valley, rues the day the Taliban arrived in his beautiful land, known for its rolling mountains, lush fields and blossoming orchards. "The earth became barren," he says.
"Our agricultural income used to be enough for the entire extended family, but for two years after the advent of the Taliban in 2007, we couldn't cultivate our lands," Nawaz tells IPS.
Swat is in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The Taliban had a strong presence...