Renown Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari has rejected the prestigious Wolf Prize, refusing its $100,000 award over Israel's continuing genocide in Gaza.
#Architecture #YasmeenLari #Pakistan #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/03/14/yasmeen-lari-refects-wolf-prize-gaza/
"Pakistan has called for 'unwavering and wholehearted' global commitment to ensuring gender equality, the empowerment of women and the implementation of anti-poverty Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)."
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2534685/pakistan-advocates-gender-equality
#Pakistan #UN #UnitedNations #WomensOpportunities #SDGs
#BajrangiBhaijaan is pure fantasy: Cheesy, corny, schmaltzy and
IT WORKS.
Even while part of my brain is saying " this is bakvaas", the rest of me is is saying "chup raho! yeh BEAUTIFUL bakvaas hai" and of course, there's this 
#Bollywood #Hindi #Urdu #India #Pakistan #Qawwali
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk0-f92gg9A
"In yet another knee-jerk reaction to curb #RenewableEnergy growth through #solar net metering amid high grid electricity costs, [#Pakistan's] government on Thursday reduced the buyback rate by two-thirds to Rs10 per unit and scrapped net billing.
The decision [is] applicable to new net-metering consumers."
https://www.dawn.com/news/1897740/solar-users-face-higher-costs-as-policy-revised
Pakistani security forces killed all 33 insurgents who have been holding a train and its passengers captive since Tuesday, with the government saying the militants killed 21 of the hostages. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/13/asia-pacific/crime-legal/pakistan-train-hijacking-50-killed/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #pakistan #southasia #terrorism
What is the Baluch Liberation Army? @AssociatedPress has more on the militant group in Pakistan that took train passengers hostage.
https://flip.it/4a9t0f
#Pakistan #Baluch #BLA #Train #Rebels #Insurgents
Tens of millions of Pakistanis spent at least four months breathing toxic air pollution 20 times above safe levels, in the worst winter smog season for several years, according to data analyzed by AFP. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/12/asia-pacific/science-health/pakistan-record-smog-season/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #sciencehealth #pakistan #pollution #smog
3rd century grey schist of #Maitreya (Bodhisattva), from the ancient region of #Gandhara of #Pakistan #Afghanistan which combines #Greek, #Roman, #Scythian & #Iranian with #Indian artistic modes on upcoming Sothebys sale of March 20, estimate £180,000-300,000
Bodhisattva is the future & final #Buddha who is worshipped in many Asian #Buddhist cultures as a spiritual being on the path to enlightenment
Pakistan: A separatist terrorist organization in the province of Balochistan has hijacked a passenger train with about 400 people in the southwest of the country.
The hijackers threatened to execute the hostages if a rescue operation is carried out.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews #pakistan
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#DesiOSTs I love
Filmi qawwalis 'come from' Sufi religious qawwalis, like this one. Devout AND catchy, from my favourite Salman Khan film. This film shot in India about cross-border antics reminds me of my UP-born Dad who grew up near where this song is set in (now) Pakistan. Also, my non-Hindiphone wife groks the clear audible distinction between ख and ख़ (nukta) in the singer's voice, warming my urduphile heart #Hindi #Urdu #India #Pakistan #HindiCinema
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk0-f92gg9A
A new #TravelBan by #Trump could bar people from #Afghanistan & #Pakistan from entering the US as soon as next week based on a government review of countries' security & vetting risks, three sources familiar with the matter said.
#law #racism #discrimination #Islamophobia #RacialProfiling #USpol #geopolitics #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-trump-travel-ban-could-bar-afghans-pakistanis-soon-sources-say-2025-03-06/
"#Pakistan’s bees once produced 22 varieties of honey, but that has plummeted to 11 as flowering seasons shorten. Three of the country’s four honeybee species are endangered.
#Bees are threatened globally by changing weather patterns, intensive farming practices, land-use change, and pesticides."
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/3/4/photos-climate-crisis-threatens-pakistans-bees-and-honey-trade
#ClimateInflation
Do you know about ROBIN HOOD ARMY!?
It's an organization that accepts no money and feeds the poor people through, fit to eat leftover food and also other resources.
Working in 13 countries currently.
#India #Pakistan #Malaysia #Nepal #Srilanka
#Nigeria #Uganda #Zambia #Bahrain #Bangladesh #Botswana #Indonesia #Guinea
• No funds 
• Apolitical
• Non-Religious
https://tradelessearth.wordpress.com/running-voluntarily/
Boost to spread this movement! 
#MutualAid #robinhoodarmy #apolitical #anarchist
#atheist #atheism #nofunds #zerofunds #volunteer #volunteering #Community #abolishmoney #feedthepoor #foodwastage #climatechange #Freeeconomy #resourcebasedeconomy #rbe #ubi #gifteconomy #openaccesseconomy #freeworld #eattherich #tradelesssociety #moneylesssociety #humanity
started a #wikipedia article on German-born American anthropologist Hanna Kaiser Papanek (1927-2017); as a child she moved to Czechoslovakia, France, and New York to flee the Nazis. She sailed from Lisbon to New York City on the SS Nyassa in December 1940; the ship full of refugees was under distress on arrival. She earned a PhD at Harvard, and studied women's lives in Pakistan in the 1950s, Indonesia in the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Papanek @wikiwomeninred #Pakistan #Indonesia #purdah
Sheikh Hasina's ousting from Bangladeshi leadership has prompted the victors to rewrite its history books — again — to suit new orthodoxies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/02/23/world/politics/bangladesh-textbooks-history/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #bangladesh #pakistan #southasia
