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Shakeeb Asrar

Shakeeb Asrar

Shakeeb Asrar is a multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker. He was previously with Al Jazeera English in Doha, Qatar and USA Today in Washington, D.C, and has also received reporting grants from the Pulitzer Center and South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA). Shakeeb holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and master's in documentary filmmaking from Columbia University. He is passionate about covering stories from the global South, with a focus on human rights, migration, and social justice.

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<strong>Safeguarding Pakistan’s Domestic Workers Will Take More Than Just Laws</strong> Domestic Politics

Safeguarding Pakistan’s Domestic Workers Will Take More Than Just Laws

Content warning: this essay contains references to domestic and sexual…

فاٹا انضمام کے بعدغیرفعالیت: توقعات بمقابلہ حقائق Hindi & Urdu

فاٹا انضمام کے بعدغیرفعالیت: توقعات بمقابلہ حقائق

مئی ۲۰۱۸ میں حکومت پاکستان نے ایک تاریخی آئینی ترمیم…

Post-Merger Inaction in FATA: Expectations vs. Reality Domestic Politics

Post-Merger Inaction in FATA: Expectations vs. Reality

In May 2018, the Pakistani government passed a historic constitutional…