Rimal Farrukh
South Asia Correspondent
rimal.farrukh@vice.comKashmiri-Chinioti journalist reporting from Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad. I cover crime, human rights, gender, and sexuality.
Health
Doctors Are Failing Single Women With STIs in This Country
“The nurses and attendants made jokes about the way my labia looked and the number of sexual partners I must have had.”
Rimal Farrukh
9.23.22
climate change
Millions Are Stranded in Pakistan’s Super Floods. Where Are Its Emergency Services?
A third of Pakistan is underwater from floods brought on by record rainfall and melting glaciers.
Rimal Farrukh
8.31.22
climate change
Pakistan’s Unprecedented Super Floods Have Swept Away the Homes of Millions
A minister called the floods, which have killed more than 900 people, a “climate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic proportions.”
Rimal Farrukh
8.26.22
LGBTQI
Leaked Videos of Gay Sex Lead to Calls For Monkeypox Contact Tracing in the Maldives
Although its $1.4 billion tourism industry covets the rainbow dollar, LGBTQ freedom is limited to tourists.
Rimal Farrukh
8.25.22
Politics
Why Pakistan Wants to Arrest Its Popular Former Prime Minister Imran Khan
The police complaint against Khan argued that his speech was meant to “terrorise” top police officials and the judiciary.
Rimal Farrukh
8.22.22
Crime
This Business Tycoon Tortured His Daughter’s Friend for Rejecting Him, Police Say
The case has caused an uproar and calls for justice in a country where the rich often don’t face consequences for criminal abuse.
Rimal Farrukh
8.18.22
marriage
Dead Babies Married in a Wedding Ceremony Decades After Their Deaths
Folded ornate clothes represented the couple in the ceremony.
Rimal Farrukh
8.4.22
Crime
These Teenagers Are Learning How to Make Bombs on YouTube and Hurling Them at Schools
“The interrogation reports have left us shocked as these minors seem to have become experts in making a low-intensity bomb in minutes.”
Rimal Farrukh
8.2.22
Crime
He Was Looking for a Hookup on Grindr. He Walked Into a Sextortion Gang.
Scammers are increasingly taking advantage of the secrecy and vulnerability of India’s queer community through online apps.
Rimal Farrukh
7.27.22
murder
11-Year-Old Child Worker Killed For Eating Food From His Employer’s Fridge
In Pakistan, some impoverished parents are driven to send their children to work in the homes of the rich in exchange for paltry sums.
Rimal Farrukh
7.14.22
LGBTQ
Inside the Lives of Queer People in Heterosexual Marriages
“It might seem odd to gay people who have the option of coming out, but for us it is survival and I will not be apologetic for it.”
Rimal Farrukh
7.13.22
GLOBAL WARMING
Roadside Chemo Given by Flooded Hospital at the Front Line of Climate Change
Unprecedented levels of rainfall have devastated northeastern India and neighbouring Bangladesh.
Rimal Farrukh
7.1.22
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