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Prince performs at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California April 26, 2008.

How Prince changed one BBC reporter’s life forever

Music

How one of the BBC’s best investigative reporters was inspired by the Purple One from Minneapolis.

A security official prevents members of the media from approaching a damaged police bus at the site of an explosion in Karachi targeting policemen on February 13, 2014.

How the Taliban took control of organized crime in Pakistan’s largest city

Justice

Inside Gay Pakistan

Lifestyle & Belief
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