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A remarkable school principal brings education to the children, especially young girls, living in the shadow of the Taliban on Pakistan's frontier.

As peace and normalcy slowly return to Swat Valley, artists and craftsmen are back at work.

A documentary shows people who are trying to live and communicate through music, a powerful language that goes beyond bombs, fighting and differences.

A recently opened trade across the Line of Control is helping to build peace among communities divided for decades in Kashmir.

This clip is a part of a conversation in between ex IAS officer, activist and author Mr. Harsh Mander, anthropologist and human rights researcher Mr. Shiv Visvanathan and actress and activist Nandita Das on the theme "Preventing Communal Violence."

In Pakistan, two-thirds of women are illiterate, and more than nine million girls do not go to school. Pakistan is way off track from achieving the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the part of Pakistan which borders Afghanistan, the UK has already helped more than 590,000 girls stay in school over the last few years by giving them small cash stipends and a set of free textbooks each year. In return they must attend school for at least four out of five days. The UK government is committed to getting two million more girls in to school in Pakistan by 2015.

Abdul Sattar Edhi opened a medical clinic which eventually spawned the world's largest ambulance service.

A poverty alleviation project has had a dramatic impact in people's livelihood and attitude towards extremism in the remote Diamer District.

The film Saving Face is nominated for an Oscar. It chronicles the lives of acid-attack survivors in Pakistan. Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy talks to Renee Montagne about what happens to some of the victims.

An academic and peace activist makes the case that while almost all Pakistanis are moderate, they are silenced by fear.