Baluchistan By-Elections: Mai Jori Takes a Stand

Posted on February 27, 2010
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Adil Najam Mai Jori Jamali (Mijori) lives in Goth Ghulam Mohammad Jamali. She is an illiterate mother of nine children. She travels 2 kilometers to fetch water for her family. She and her husband farm a small piece of agricultural land. Mai Jori is also a candidate in the Baluchistan Assembly bye-elections for the PB-25 […]

Olympics Pictorial: Abbas Has His Day in the Snow

Posted on February 23, 2010
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Adil Najam Muhammad Abbas made Pakistan’s Winter Olympics debut today. We already have a post on Abbas’s remarkable trip from learning skiing on home-made planks in Pakistan’s Northern Areas to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, but these Associated Press pictures from his run today are quite stunning and we thought they deserve a separate post.

2010 Olympics: Abbas Skies His Way to Vancouver

Posted on February 22, 2010
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Adil Najam Earlier today, Mohammad Abbas of Pakistan completed a downhill free run in Whistler, British Columbia (picture below). Tomorrow he will compete in the Men’s Giant Slalom at the Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010.  (See followup post with more pictures, here). It is unlikely that he will be in the run for a medal, but […]

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