Guardians of the glaciers – life alongside Pakistan’s vanishing ice
The rapid melting of Pakistan’s icy giants is creating hardships and challenges for vulnerable communities.
![A fruit seller arranges his stall in the early morning as smog envelopes the area of Lahore, Pakistan, on Thursday, November 14, 2024 [KM Chaudary/AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/AP24319355647394-1-1734423998.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Air pollution has become a major problem in Pakistan and it is children who are paying the price.
The rapid melting of Pakistan’s icy giants is creating hardships and challenges for vulnerable communities.
The pandemic exposed the critical obstacles to care faced by many minority communities in the West.
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They have fled disaster and conflict at home and now find themselves working through a pandemic abroad.
![Zar Nabi, 30, from Afghanistan, tends his fruit and vegetable stall in the Alum Rock neighbourhood of Birmingham, UK [Anam Hussain/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/IMG-3.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Pakistan’s new commuter train has eased rush hour for workers, but has also upended communities and ancestral homes.
![The Orange Line Metro Train on its first test-run, travels along a track in a neighbourhood in Lahore, Pakistan on May 16, 2018 [File:Mohsin Raza/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/lahore-orange-train.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)