Tusinder omkommet i millionbyen i Pakistan i en cocktail af sekteriske, politiske og etniske drab over få år og nu rammer det også hjælpeprojekter, bl.a. fordi yderligtgående islamister er imod, at piger kommer i skole på lige fod med drenge.
KARACHI, 6 June 2013 (IRIN): The short queue outside a dispensary (apotek) in the Sohrab Goth area of Pakistan’s mega-city Karachi had not advanced for hours: the front door remained stubbornly shut, death threats having deterred (afskrækket) staff from showing up for work several days previously.
“They are too scared to come and help us,” said Saleem Ahmed, one of those waiting in line.
The recent killing of several aid workers has left many projects with an uncertain future as humanitarians fear getting caught up in incessant (uophørlige) sectarian, ethnic and political attacks in the city which killed around two thousand people last year.
One of those currently in crisis is the Bright Educational Society (BES), set up more than 17 years ago by Abdul Waheed, who was well-known and respected in the city’s humanitarian community.
The society runs a school in the Qasba Colony area of the city, and the small fees brought in by the 800 or so pupils helped fund other humanitarian activities, including the distribution of free medicines to the poor.
But less than a month ago, Waheed was shot dead in front of his young daughter and brother, close to the charity’s pharmacy.
Opposition to girls’ education
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