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Three Pakistani weddings in times of war
By
Zehra Khan
One Pakistani family’s story of migration and survival across three weddings amid three conflicts: the 1971 Bangladesh war, the Kargil War, and the 2025 conflict following the Pahalgam attack
An archaeologist at the the Chemmani mass grave site excavates partially unearthed human skeletons from the sandy ground, with numbered evidence tags placed near the bones.
An observer of the 1999 Chemmani exhumations reflects on newly uncovered mass graves and Sri Lanka’s continued failure to deliver justice for Tamil victims of war-time crimes
Captain Chamari Athapaththu raises her arms in celebration during the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup match between Sri Lanka Women and England Women at Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Saturday, 11 October 2025.
The success of Chamari Athapaththu and Sri Lanka’s women’s cricket team is showing a new generation of girls where their dreams can take them, and opening doors to women in media and other adjacent fi ...
A candlelit commemoration of Zubeen Garg in Assam. Garg’s death – like his art – drew the people of Assam together across religious, class and caste lines. The singer often declared that he had no caste, no religion.
The Assamese icon sang and spoke the language of the secular, and his death – like his art – united Assam’s Hindus and Muslims, tribals and non-tribals, rich and poor
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