News stories by Ashfaq Yusufzai, page 7

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 02 (IPS) - Every night in his sleep, Rizwan Ahmed sees his sons being killed. "When he wakes up, he starts crying. He realises they are dead and it was the nightmare he has been having," says Dr. Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the psychiatrist treating him.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Apr 13 (IPS) - Mushfiq Wali, a 22-year-old shoemaker, loves watching films in the local Pashto language. But he says the Taliban are a killjoy: their bomb attacks have led to the closure of movie theatres, again. "They don't spare anything that brings happiness."

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Apr 07 (IPS) - Following scattered defiance of the Taliban earlier, a new wave of students is now heading for education in schools and colleges across the troubled north of Pakistan.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Mar 26 (IPS) - Pakistan is in the midst of a heated debate on continuing military operations against the Taliban in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), especially after the brutal killing of 23 army soldiers last month.

PESHAWAR, Mar 22 (IPS) - Pakistan may have low prevalence of HIV/AIDS, with only about 9,000 officially confirmed cases, but the country is at high risk, particularly due to a growing number of injecting drug users (IDUs), say experts.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 26 (IPS) - They are contraband, yet a large number of Pakistanis have come to depend on drugs made in India and smuggled into Pakistan. Patients as well as doctors say these are cheap and effective, even as law enforcers look the other way.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 17 (IPS) - Disturbed by civilian casualties and moved by the plight of people living like refugees in their own country, students from Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) are demanding an end to army operations against militants on their native soil.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Feb 04 (IPS) - Whether to make war or peace with the Taliban has become a dilemma for the Pakistani government.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 30 (IPS) - As the temperature dips to zero degrees Celsius, a chill has set into the lives of people like 44-year-old Rasool Khan at the Jalozai camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Pakistan. Huddled in tiny tents, with just a plastic sheet over their heads and no heat, they pass sleepless nights in the bitter cold.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jan 21 (IPS) - Afghanistan is rediscovering the joy of cricket. It is seen as a tool of progress, a means of entertainment, and a way to wean youth away from violence in a country that has been ravaged by conflict for more than 30 years.