Problem: Despite the Pakistani Supreme Court’s 2009 granting third-gender certification on their national ID and the ability to vote to Khwaja Siras, individuals who self-identify as third-gendered, the community continues to face an excruciating level of discrimination, gendered violence and arbitrary state violence. Some note that the term Khwaja Sira...

Problem: There are few unbiased, non-tampered records of archival data (photos, oral accounts, correspondence etc.) of the Pakistan’s partition from India in 1947. Most state narratives come with an anti-Indian nationalist rhetoric that erases the stories of many including religious and ethnic minorities from the nation-building moment. Such state-centric, and...

Problem: There are few unbiased, non-tampered records of archival data (photos, oral accounts, correspondence etc.) of the Pakistan’s partition from India in 1947. Most state narratives come with an anti-Indian nationalist rhetoric that erases the stories of many including religious and ethnic minorities from the nation-building moment. Such state-centric, and...

Problem/Purpose: Due to severe shortages of available low-income housing in the city, families of laborers, workers and the poor living in Islamabad have established informal settlements, living arrangements known as katchi abadis. The settlements have existed in Islamabad for 4 decades. The shortage is attributed as a failure by central...

Problem and Purpose: According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, honour killings are becoming an acute social and moral problem. In 2015, 1,096 women and 88 men were murdered, higher than 860 women in 2013, with many cases unreported. Honour killings are when a family, or local community murders...

History In 1900, the British Imperial Raj developed a canal system for the agricultural development of Punjab and promised the labourers involved in the project agricultural land as compensation for their work. Some families, settled in Okara were given tenant status and promised full ownership rights within a given period.Though...

Problem/Purpose: The 2013 general elections of Pakistan were faced with serious proof of electoral rigging, judicial intervention and political interference in not only the elections process itself (voter registration, eligibility and results) but also, the National Database and Registration Authority’s fairness evaluation process. History/Overview Organized by Imran khan and his...

Problem/Purpose Due to security concerns, gendered social norms constricting interaction between women and non-related men, social stigma around women in public spaces and threats of sexual harassment and rape, women’s mobility in public spaces in Pakistan is severely restricted.Such constraints also threaten a women’s decision to participate and engage in...

History/Overview The Balochistan Agriculture Project is an initiative organized by USAID and UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization in Pakistan. The project’s primary aim is to help communities and individual farmers increase production, sales and revenues for crops and livestock.In addition to supporting local organizations, the project helps train farmers how...

History/Overview The March 2015 floods, and the 7.5 earthquake in October 2015 left the people of Charum Oveer, a remote village near Chitral, with not only severe damage to local infrastructures and housing and no sources of electricity but also, with severe psychological and physical traumas. The village has a...