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RESCUER Munira Barkat in a training session. KARACHI: Few people know that behind the happy demeanour, recruiting people and building relationships with hundreds of employers and employees, 28-year-old Munira Barkat, a human resource person, in a Karachi-based organisation, is a woman who doubles as a serious volunteer and rescues people from imminent danger. She is one of the six women rescuers in a team of 22 in Karachi, trained to go inside collapsed or burning buildings and rescue people tr...

Shamim Bano, a middle-school teacher, has recently returned from a fortnight in Kabul where she taught Afghan women to do search and rescue work. The training “involved climbing mountains and gorges using ropes and harnesses, using ziplines and rappelling. Any wrong move and you can start a rock fall,” she explained. Handling serious casualties, “with broken bones, head, neck and back injuries,” was also part of the training, she added. As a young girl Bano was disturbed by purdah comin...

Meet the women who do rescue work on Pakistani mountains Aga Khan Agency for Habitat trains them SAMAA | Zofeen T Ebrahim - Posted: Feb 18, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago SAMAA | Zofeen T Ebrahim Posted: Feb 18, 2021 | Last Updated: 1 month ago Avalanche rescue training in Chitral. - Photo: AKAH-P Shamim Bano, a middle-school teacher, has recently returned from a fortnight in Kabul where she taught Afghan women to do search and rescue work. The training “involved climbing m...