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Xari Jalil has over 20 years of experience in journalism, and has been associated in the past with mainstream print media such as The News International & Dawn, while also contributing for other publications both locally and internationally. She is also an IVLP Fellow, and a Fellow of the Global Investigative Journalists Network (GIJN). Much of her work has been centered around human rights issues, crime, socio-political issues, public health and environment and culture and lifestyle.

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Period Matters

Xari Jalil
“Menstrual hygiene is a necessity, not a luxury. Even the government has looked upon sanitary napkins as luxury products and has imposed taxes on them. Women should be getting essential products such as sanitary pads free of cost, and if…
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TURNING A BLIND EYE TO TORTURE

Xari Jalil
When Muhammad Iqbal was picked up in 1998 by the police on a charge of murder, from near his home in Mandi Bahauddin, he was barely 17 years old. Iqbal claims he was not even in the village at the time the said murder was committed and that…