Tens of millions of Pakistanis will cast their vote in elections on Thursday, but analysts say the outcome is unlikely to reflect the will of the people.
Diaa Hadid chiefly covers Pakistan and Afghanistan for NPR News. She is based in NPR's bureau in Islamabad. There, Hadid and her team were awarded a Murrow in 2019 for hard news for their story on why abortion rates in Pakistan are among the highest in the world.
The map was made as part of a collaboration between the University of Hawaiʻi and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which provided $270,000 for the project. Researchers used Google Earth Engine and Google’s DeepMind, an artificial intelligence system, to do the work.
The House Public Safety Committee urged the Honolulu Department of Emergency Management to better identify where people should go in the case of a higher category hurricane.