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PBS and Saima Mohsin's Heart-Wrenching Story on Young Victims of the Flood

Per usual, the PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer has provided, far and away, the best reportage on the flood in Pakistan.  Working with Saima Mohsin of the English-language channel Dawn News, the Newshour has aired some of the most arresting stories on Pakistan’s crisis.  The piece you will find below is no different.

Mohsin lays out the grave danger that children and young families face in Pakistan.   This is news worth the watching.  Please take some time out of your busy life and watch the video you will find below.  And just to accommodate yourself to a world where babies bathe in dark water, mixed and matched with excrement, please read the transcript of the piece that you will find immediately below the video that I have embedded.

Here, again is the link that contains the transcript of the footage you have just seen. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/weather/july-dec10/pakistan_09-06.html

 

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Faheem Haider

Faheem Haider is a political analyst, writer and artist. He holds advanced research degrees in political economy, political theory and the political economy of development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and New York University. He also studied political psychology at Columbia University. During long stints away from his beloved Washington Square Park, he studied peace and conflict resolution and French history and European politics at the American University in Washington DC and the University of Paris, respectively.

Faheem has research expertise in democratic theory and the political economy of democracy in South Asia. In whatever time he has to spare, Faheem paints, writes, and edits his own blog on the photographic image and its relationship to the political narrative of fascist, liberal and progressivist art.

That work and associated writing can be found at the following link: http://blackandwhiteandthings.wordpress.com