KHAULA ON THE MOVE

A couple of years ago, I visited the only Jewish graveyard in Karachi to photograph it for someone’s research. This graveyard that once held 5,000 graves lies right opposite the Mewa Shah Graveyard around the Haji Camp area. Today, there are apparently only 300 graves that have survived. The caretaker told me they try to […]

In 2018, I was commissioned by an organization to visit Edhi Centre’s in Karachi and collect stories about the people who worked there and how they ended up in their jobs. Here are some of the inspiring individuals I interviewed and photographed. Shehzad’s Story There are swings outside the Edhi homes that sometimes have babies in […]

Dear Timergara, As a woman, I am trying to find something positive to say about you. Your snow capped mountains and the gorgeous foliage were spectacular but it seems superficial to point this out. Perhaps I cannot make a fair assessment, having known you only for 1 week but I do think about all the […]

Photos and story by Khaula Jamil for MSF Pakistan It was the year 2009 and young, carefree, Ikramullah, was playing football with his friends in Munda, Lower Dir, when he saw large trucks coming down the road. A leader amongst his friends and curious by nature, he walked up to where the trucks parked to […]

Photos and Story by Khaula Jamil for MSF Pakistan Somewhere in a remote village of Bajaur district (a former Federally Administered Tribal Area in Pakistan that borders Afghanistan) 27-year-old, Asiya, is waiting to give birth in her home on a cold December night.  She has a cup of hot tea and starts feeling the contractions. […]

(Photos and story by Khaula Jamil for MSF Pakistan) After two years of marriage, 26-year-old Zaiba, finally conceived a baby. Hailing from a small remote village in Bajaur District, Pakistan, she grew up in abject poverty with her three brothers and four sisters. Life was never easy for Zaiba. At home, she had two brothers […]

A week back a friend posted a picture smiling next to a lush green park with a beautiful Victorian building at the back. I thought he was in England. When I looked closer, it was Empress Market. I couldn’t believe it – I had to see this with my own eyes. I finally made it […]

I have been going on freelance assignments with an organization called Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) since 2017. We do at least one if not two stories a year about cotton farmers in Pakistan and how BCI helps train them to produce better crop while promoting decent farming practices to help the farmers in their personal […]

In November, 2019, I went on assignment for International Finance Corporation (IFC) to Jhimpir, Sindh, to document community life in and around wind power plants. The idea was to gather stories to understand the impact of how these energy producing corporations setting up their plants in this rural setting had impacted the local community. Here […]

Somewhere in a village called Mehrab Solangi in Hyderabad, Pakistan, lives 42 year old Sara Solangi with her husband and two children. As a community group member and a beneficiary of a Women’s Leadership training program, Sara is a force to be reckoned with. She has been campaigning for fair and equal access to water for […]