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Zofeen T Ebrahim

Zofeen T Ebrahim is a Karachi-based journalist

July 2024

  • Rows of small blue-capped glass bottles containing milk.

    Pakistani breast milk bank closes after Islamic clerics withdraw approval

  • Olympians, from left to right, Husnah Kukundakwe; Taonere Banda and Kishmala Talat.

    Beating the odds: three Olympic sportswomen on overcoming poverty, mockery – and small swimming pools

April 2024

  • Children sit attentively on the ground while a man holds up large, colourful book.

    Tall tales but no dessert: the storyteller of Karachi and his ice-cream cart library

    In a country where 77% of 10-year-olds are illiterate, a reading scheme in Karachi is reaching thousands of children in slums

December 2023

  • Sonia Guajajara wearing a blue Indigenous headdress

    We can be heroes: the inspiring people we met around the world in 2023

  • Commuters make their way along a street amid dense smog in Lahore

    Pakistan uses artificial rain in attempt to cut pollution levels

October 2023

  • Sindhi Chhokri (Urooj Fatima), 22, and Toxic Sufi (Mohammad Kapri), 18, who perform as the Pahnji Gang.

    Resistance rappers: the Pahnji Gang raging against the machine in Pakistan

    Two siblings are building a following among the young people of Sindh province disillusioned with the straitened status quo

September 2023

  • An electricity bill is set on fire during a protest in Karachi last week against rising costs.

    Pakistan in uproar as protests over soaring energy prices turn violent

    Traders close shops, electricity bills are set alight and utility firm staff are attacked as anger rises over living costs and political strife

August 2023

  • A fat middle-aged man looks out from behind bars

    Opinion
    How many more poor child workers must die in Pakistan before change happens?

    Zofeen T Ebrahim
    Graphic videos of the last hours of 10-year-old Fatima Furiro have highlighted once again the abuse faced by child workers

July 2023

  • A resident with her flood-resistant hut in Tando Allahyar district in Sindh, Pakistan. The huts are made from bamboo and cost 25,000 rupees (£70) to build.

    ‘This will not be swept away’: the bamboo homes helping Pakistan’s post-flood rebuild

    A year on from devastating floods, a renowned architect is leading a project to build affordable and sustainable homes while empowering communities in the process

March 2023

  • An older woman talks to women holding out copies of their ID as they wait for food handouts

    ‘We’d have died of hunger’: the charity kitchens feeding millions in Pakistan

    Lost jobs and soaring prices have pushed 5m Pakistanis to the edge. As demand soars at Ramadan, charities cannot cope

February 2023

  • Three pink buses parked in a row. Young woman dressed in white and wearing pink hijab stands in front of the nearest bus

    Can Karachi’s women-only pink buses drive change in Pakistan?

    Harassment by men on public transport is one reason why female participation in the workforce stands at only 20%

January 2023

  • Afghan children at a refugee camp in Karachi, Pakistan, last summer. Now children are among the hundreds being deported.

    Pakistan sends back hundreds of Afghan refugees to face Taliban repression

    About 250,000 Afghan asylum seekers have arrived in Pakistan since August 2021, but a migrant crackdown has left many of them in fear of being jailed or deported

November 2022

  • Alina Khan

    ‘It’s not against Islam’: Pakistani trans actor tells of deep sadness over film ban

    Exclusive: Alina Khan, star of award-winning Joyland, speaks out as the movie’s licence for domestic release is revoked, putting its Oscar contention in doubt

August 2022

  • Women and children queue for aid in a tent

    Health officials warn of major outbreaks of disease after severe floods in Pakistan

  • People wade through nearly waist-high water as others stand outside their mud brick homes

    ‘Just a pile of mud’: Pakistani floods force family to rebuild home again

January 2022

  • A smiling woman holding a goat at a market in Pakistan

    ‘For the first time, I felt free’: Pakistan’s women-led livestock market

    In rural provinces, women have always reared animals but are excluded from selling them. A new market is changing attitudes

December 2020

  • Home-based workers officially register as workers in Sindh province, Pakistan. Their new status will allow them to receive numerous benefits.

    ‘Moving mountains’: How Pakistan’s ‘invisible’ women won workers’ rights

    Home workers in Sindh province are celebrating new social security benefits, after being denied lockdown funding

March 2017

  • A Filipino woman during a rally against sexual violence in Manila, Philippines, this week.

    The Resistance Now
    International Women's Day 2017: protests, activism and a strike – as it happened

  • Women from the Home Based Women Workers Federation

    Women's rights and gender equality
    International Women’s Day: Pakistan’s ‘invisible’ female workers celebrate new legal status

February 2017

  • People on a street during a power cut in Karachi

    Locals accuse Pakistan of doing the dirty by turning to coal to meet energy needs

    As Pakistan seeks to address its power crisis by mining coal, villagers in the Thar desert are fighting to prevent state acquisition of their ancestral land
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