Katarina Adler
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How can a mere myth ruin the lives of thousands of children? In Pakistan, microcephalics – babies born with abnormally small heads – are known as "rats" and credited with god-like powers. Believers will give them money in the hope of blessings, but unscrupulous gangs of beggars are now exploiting this ancient tradition for their own ends. These gangs kidnap young "rat" children – or frighten pare…
The production of opium in Pakistan has plummeted thanks to a 15-year eradication programme. The shattering irony is that in the same 15 years Pakistan has gone from a nation of almost no drug users to the one with the most heroin addicts in the word. Martin Adler follows the addicts to the slums and sewers of Pakistan's cities and analyses the social traumas induced by drug addiction. Still more…
This report tells the plight of Muslim Kashmiris living in a region torn apart by war and human rights abuses. Discontent in Indian-occupied Kashmir erupted into full-scale rebellion in 1989 and since then the Indian army has been attempting to crush the resistance by the most brutal means. The invisible nature of the underground movement means suspects are chosen almost arbitrarily. A young man …
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