Rawalpindi’s historic inn stands tall amidst changing times on May 9, 2024Nestled behind a tree near the Rawalpindi railway station is Lakhpati Serai, a small inn built for travelers decades ago still housing over fifty passengers daily. When it first began serving weary travelers, the streets outside the railway station were filled with such overnight lodgings, with traditional rope beds (charpais) lining the roads at dusk, […]
Missing woman recovered from Toba Tek Singh on April 22, 2024The police have recovered a missing woman from Toba Tek Singh some sixteen years after her alleged abduction from Islamabad. According to police sources in Toba Tek Singh, Asia Bibi, 33, was reportedly abducted within the jurisdiction of Shahzad police station, Islamabad on October 18, 2008. Bashir Ahmed, Station House Officer (SHO) Aroti Police Station, […]
Enduring birthroom struggles in Kohistan on April 10, 2024Zainab Kulsoom, a 27-year-old resident of Lotar village in Kohistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is in the ninth month of her sixth delivery, embracing the challenges of motherhood with five children. Residing in a shared home with her husband’s fourteen brothers, Kulsoom, along with two co-wives and a total of 16 children, occupies a single room. Despite […]