“Punk music was always meant to shock people,” says Hassan, famously known as Dozakhi (which means abominable and hellish in Urdu) among his peers and fans in the local punk scenes in both Pakistan and Germany. “I always believed in using that in a progressive way to advance good ideas,” he adds. Dozakhi is the frontman of a Berlin-based hardcore punk band called Zanjeer. The group consists of immigrants from Pakistan, Britain, Australia and the former Soviet Union.

As of January 2024, there are 71.70 million active social media users in Pakistan, but there is little to no understanding by the news media about the changes audiences want to see in their social media platforms.

“It’s funny, apart from Karachi, Ustad has not been officially invited to play shows in even Islamabad or Lahore, yet here we are in Europe, set to play 25 shows,” said the manager, Daniyal.

In March this year, Áine Kelly-Costello offered a training session for Unbias the News on linking the climate beat and disability. Áine is a multiply-disabled storyteller and disability advocate. Their climate justice work has included fossil fuel divestment activism, upskilling organisations on accessible and inclusive campaigning, and reporting and podcasting on disability and climate intersections.

Do you remember the time when being able to store a thousand songs on a handheld device revolutionised the way we listened to music? Yes, the iPod. That darling device that made it possible to carry music in our pockets. If I tell this to my niece and nephew they would probably laugh as they look up from their iPad. Little do they know the iPod walked so that iPads and iPhones could run.

The Sinking Cities Project is a global cross-border investigation that examines how sea-level rise is impacting major cities and how their governments are responding to the consequences of climate crisis.

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Last year, my father spent his 70th birthday in Karachi at home with my mother, without any electricity for hours. All around their apartment building was knee-deep floodwater in an area of the city considered ‘posh’ for years.