A charitable heart
At 73, Peerzaada Hamidullah Qadri, devotes himself to running a charitable trust. Aliya Bashir reports. After a long teaching career Peerzaada Hamidullah Qadri retired...
Crocheting Lives
It took her 16 years to encourage her husband to earn for the family. The failure has led her to separate and to further...
Face of resistance
From an ordinary woman striving to trace her son picked up by troops, Parveena Ahanger turned into champion of civil rights for all such...
Forgotten Candy Man
From a household name to a forgotten self, Ali Bhat is one of those characters of Valley whose show ended with the prelude of...
Barkat’s School
Started by a mother of seven to impart free education to the underprivileged, Buchwara’s Lowood School is now a splendid piece of history. To...
Saviour Swimmer
Bashir Ahmad, an expert swimmer, has so far saved scores of people from drowning in Sindh River and is the key help for people...
Matter of vision
At 16, Ghafoor Wahid began losing his eyesight. But His vision helped him prepare for the greater challenge life threw at him. Aliya Bashir...
Passing the body on
A Muslim undertaker Muhammad Yaseen Dar performed the last rites for Pandits at Batamloo crematory for almost a decade. Dar died in 2008 and...
Grit does not need arms
Born without arms, Mohammed Sultan taught himself to write with his feet. He is now pursuing his master’s at University of Kashmir and aspires...
Grandfather teacher
In six decades Mohammed Maqbool Sangeen’s name has become synonymous with teaching Urdu. And his students have a fan club on Facebook for him....
Chenab’s Ababeel
Saifullah Bashir meets the group leader that oversees the Chenab region like a bird and tries everything to mitigate the crisis
In 2014 when...
Guardian of history
He was inspired by the family antiques he inherited. Public apathy towards heritage transformed his passion for historical collections into duty. Shazia Khan peeps...
Bridging A Village
A fisherwoman stopped going to sell her husband’s catch after situation prevented her leaving her five daughters unguarded at home. In 30 years, she...
More Than Paying Back
A family displaced by the political turmoil and the armed conflict in the early 1990s returns to give their ancestral village, a dream-school. A...
Teacher at heart
An engineer by profession, a teacher at heart, Manzoor Ahmad Kachgar has established over two dozen Darsgahs in his locality, and a school that...
