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Last week Pakistan鈥檚 Prime Minister, Imran Khan, appointed a renowned Pakistani economist to an advisory economics panel. But Professor Mian is also a member of the Ahmadiyya religious community, which many Muslims consider to be sacrilegious. Following protests he resigned. So why do the Ahmadiyya stir such passions in Pakistan? 大象传媒 Urdu's Khalid Karamat explains.

My Hometown: Dobromyl
大象传媒 Ukraine鈥檚 Irena Taranyuk takes us to her home town in Western Ukraine, a place of secrets and faded glory.

Plastic surgery tourism
Turkey has become a centre for cut price hair transplant operations, with holiday packages throwing in sightseeing too. It's a big business, and neighbouring Iran already is apparently keen to get a slice of the action too. Ehsan Amertousi from 大象传媒 Persian, and Enis Seneredem from 大象传媒 Turkish tell us more.

Translating Sea Prayer
Sea Prayer is a new short story by Khaled Hosseini. Set on a beach as a Syrian father waits with his son for a boat to arrive the book is being published in the main languages of Hosseini's home country, Afghanistan. The 大象传媒's Najiba Laima Kasraee and Fawad Massiha did the Pashto and Dari versions.

Nepali dog chews
鈥淐hurpi鈥� is a hard, chewy dairy snack popular among Nepalis. It鈥檚 found a surprising new market overseas, but not for humans: for dogs. 大象传媒 Nepali鈥檚 Rama Parajuli has been getting her teeth stuck into the story.

Hong Kong's beauty queens
Filipinas working as domestic staff in Hong Kong have Sundays off, but instead of relaxing many choose to enter beauty pageants specifically created for Filipina maids. Tzuwei Lui from 大象传媒 Chinese met one to find out why

Image: A man cries as he prays at the graves of victims killed in attacks against Ahmadiyya community mosques in 2010.
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