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As new leaders in Washington and Islamabad struggle against a surge of Islamic militancy and growing political instability in Pakistan, their greatest challenge will be winning the hearts and minds of 170 million citizens in one of the world's poorest and most densely populated Muslim countries.
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Big, bright and, to many, beautifulThe truck artists of Karachi apply a splash of color to an otherwise bleak canvas.
KARACHI, Pakistan - At first glance this is not a colorful city. An aerial view of Karachi reveals a sprawl of squat markets and utilitarian high-rises set among sparse vegetation and dull industrial public art, a landscape of stucco corroded by salty sea air and looming cement structures coated in urban grime.
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Categories: Pakistan, Watch, Read, Listen, Labor and Immigration, Poverty and Development
Bad times return to KarachiRenewed violence in this Pakistani port city is threatening its status as a safe haven from troubles further north.
Despite Karachi’s decades-old reputation as Pakistan’s most violent city, over the last year this urban economic hub has remained a haven from the bombings and violence reverberating through the rest of the country. But a flaring of ethnic clashes in recent weeks, exacerbated by a the arrival of thousands of refugees from the violence in northern Pakistan, has many worried that instability has returned to the streets of this massive port city on the shores of the Arabian Sea.
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Categories: Pakistan, Read, Listen, Poverty and Development, Politics and Conflict
CLP Updates
CLP's Alex Stonehill on PBS's Foreign Exchange
This week on PBS's Foreign Exchange CLP journalist Alex Stonehill discusses education in Pakistan with host Daljit Dhaliwal. The show also featured Galleries on the Go a short CLP documentary piece about the art of Pakistani truck decoration.
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Get Your Tickets Today for the CLP Annual FundraiserThe Journalism Hustle is Thursday, July 23rd
We are cooking up a great fundraiser for this summer: delicious food, beautiful waterfront location, and amazing auction items from a luxurious night at the Tulalip Resort to a genuine Seattle P-I newspaper box! Join us Thursday, July 23rd at 6 pm at Seattle's Lake Union Yacht Club. We'll share some of our most interesting stories from the Pakistan: Hearts and Minds project, and offer a special screening of our recent short documentary chronicling the last days of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, It's in the P-I. And of course it wouldn't be a CLP fundraiser without music, food, and booze!
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Official Selection: It's in the P-I to show at Seattle International Film Festival
Our short film, It's in the P-I, will be playing at the Seattle International Film Festival May 29th at 9:30pm. The film explores the closure of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer at a moment when America's newspapers are on the verge of extinction. Produced in collaboration with The Last Quest and the Something Factory as part of the International Documentary Challenge. Tickets available from SIFF.
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