The heat is on


PAKISTANI student Aqsa Shabbir is hot, tired and frustrated. A keen hockey player, she can no longer train during the day because of a brutal heatwave, she can’t sleep at night and she fears she will not play well in a tournament at the end of June.

The 17-year-old, who lives in Jacobabad in the southern Sindh province, already had to overcome many obstacles – like many girls who live in Pakistan’s smaller cities where exercising in public is frowned upon – and the heatwave is making things harder.

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