by Lahiru Doloswala in The Daily Morning, Oct 21, 2023Residents of Wethalawa village in the Central province find themselves in a state of distress and fear as they grapple with a perplexing and eerie phenomenon – mysterious noises emanating from beneath the earth’s surface near the Kothmale reservoir. Concerned about these unexplained sounds, the local community has taken the step of reporting the situation to the National Building Research Organization (NBRO). Meanwhile, geological experts have…
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Reuters report, October 15, 2023KARACHI/LAHORE: Salma Faheem has not spoken to her husband, Mohammad, since June, when he dropped her and their three children off in his home village of Dalma in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) because he could no longer afford to have them living with him in Karachi. Now instead of living in one room in an urban slum with water on tap and a gas-powered cooker, Salma has to walk an hour every…
by Resty Woro Yuniar in SCMP, Oct 4, 2023The construction of a Chinese-backed economic zone on an Indonesian island off Batam is tantamount to “cultural genocide”, according to advocates who are concerned about the future of indigenous villagers facing eviction. Authorities have been seeking to reach a deal with some 7,500 villagers living on Indonesia’s Rempang Island – about 40km south of Singapore – to get them to move out of homes they have lived…
by Naznin Akhter in Prothom ALo, Oct 2, 2023Kishoreganj: It’s a village named Goradighi in the haor region. Boats are the sole way of communication to and from that village in both rainy and dry seasons. There ae no secondary schools in the village under Singpur union of Kishhoreganj’s Nikli upazila. If they want to continue studying after class five, students of the village have to cross two rivers to go to another village in…
by Basant Pratap Singh in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 19, 2023Bindu Chand, a 10th grader at Ganesh Secondary School in ward 6 of Sigas Rural Municipality in Baitadi district, has to wade across the Nwaghari river risking her life to go to school and return home. All her clothes get wet while crossing the river. It is her routine to stay the whole day in class with the wet clothes. “It’s quite difficult during my…
by Deepak Pariyar in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 10, 2023Phuliwang in Annapurna Rural Municipality-10 is a picturesque village around a three-hour bus ride and then an hour’s walk from Pokhara. The village was originally inhabited mostly by the indigenous Gurung community and Dalit community. Today, most of the Gurung families have moved away to the cities and if the Dalits had options they would too, for a better life elsewhere, says Ramshree BK, a local…
by Dipankar Roy in The Daily Star, Mar 22, 2023Waking up before dawn, Dipali Mondal takes a three-km walk every day to collect drinking water from a pond for her five-member family in Channirchak village of Khulna’s Dakop upazila. She needs to walk through a bumpy road to the pond. “I have to cross a big canal on the way to fetch pond water. On a sunny day, I cannot walk much at a stretch.…
report in Dawn, March 10th, 2023SWABI: Gunmen killed three people in a car attack in Shewa village of Razaar tehsil here on Thursday. The police said Waqar Ahmad, his father Mohammad Sadiqand another person, Wahid Zaman, were targetedon the way to the Swabi Judicial Complex in Shahmansoor area. They said Waqar and Sadiq were to attend the court hearing into a murder case, while Zaman hitchhiked. The police said Sadiq died on the spot, while…
report in Dawn, Dec 29, 2022TAXILA: A chief editor of a local newspaper, his gunman and driver were shot dead near Marri village in the limits of Attock police station on Wednesday, police said. According to family sources, chief editor of a local newspaper Arshad Jaffari was going to his office along with his driver, Akhter Nawaz, and gunman, Nazam Khan, after meeting with the district police officer Attock, sharing details with him about the…
report in Dawn, December 25th, 2022LAKKI MARWAT: A counter-terrorism department (CTD) constable survived an armed attack in Bachkan Ahmadzai village of Lakki Marwat, said a police official on Saturday. The official said that CTD constable Samiullah was going to a football ground in the village when armed men opened fire on him. He said that the constable remained unhurt and later armed villagers formed a ‘lashkar’ and chased the attackers. “A large contingent of police…