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Scores of children in Pakistan have tested positive for HIV (opens the original)
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: [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION Sept. 17, 2026: A previous version of this story incorrectly said that the 140 people who recently tested positive for HIV in Karachi were children. In fact, those cases were mostly children but included some adults. Also, the story incorrectly said that those cases had been linked to everyday medical care. Not all cases have been conclusively linked to such care.] In Pakistan's port city of Karachi, at least 140 people, mostly children, have recently tested positive
Whatever happened to ... children infected with HIV due to failures in healthcare? (opens the original)
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Seven years ago, Pakistan faced a startling medical tragedy. In the city of Larkana, in Sindh province, 494 children were diagnosed with HIV. Authorities were puzzled but eventually determined a leading cause. As NPR reported at the time: "the tragedy is … being linked to major failures in the health care system, including reuse of syringes and lack of standards for blood transfusions." The public was in an uproar. "There was panic, hue and cry," Masood Bangash, a district police officer, told N
Pakistan-administered Kashmir holds elections amid calls for a boycott (opens the original)
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Pakistan has postponed some elections in the part of Kashmir it controls. It cited security concerns. Protesters took to the streets this summer demanding better representation. Betsy Joles reports from Islamabad. BETSY JOLES, BYLINE: Polling Monday took place in parts of Poonch division. It's one of the places where Kashmir is divided between Pakistan and India by a heavily militarized de facto border called the Line of Control. Poonch is politically important, which helps explain why anger eru
Greetings from an isolated region in northern Pakistan's Hindu Kush mountains (opens the original)
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The rawness of Pakistan's mountain regions is one of their main selling points. High-elevation passes feature on Instagram pages of adventure travel influencers, who promote their journeys along some of the world's most dangerous roads. Jeeps and buses can get stalled for hours while workers clear rockslides that clog entire stretches of highway. During one of my trips to the mountains, we had to wait at a safe distance while a boulder blocking the road was blown up with dynamite. The intensity
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