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Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Afghanistan.
GP141 Girls weaving rugs, Glen Wright - Gemini Correspondent, Western Samoa
GP142 Man playing an instrument
GP143 Soviet artillary and military trucks outside Kabul, with caption.
GP144 Farming scene from Panjshir valley
GP145 Chaurnassia Rural Health Centre, 1978, WHO
GP146 Chaurnassia Rural Health Centre, Dec 1970, K Muldoon - United Nations.
GP147 Afghan refugee children in Pakistani camp
Creator: Gemini News Service; 1967-2002; news agency; 1967-; news agency

Photographs selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to Pakistan.
GP305 Small boy on rubbish area in Peshwar's Lamabad suburbs, Photo by Len McCrane
GP306 Street sweeper clears rubbish, Photo by Len McCrane
GP951 [Former editor] Maleeha Lodi Pakistan's ambassador to US
GP952 Rawalpindi Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was sworn in as the first directly elected Pres. on April 21 under an interium constitut adopted by the National Assembly on April 17.
GP953 It was the first time that a head of state in Pakistan took oath of office in full public view outside the precincts of the President House. A croud of over half a million watched the ceremony.
GP954 With their rifles near them, young Bengali volunteers pause for rest on their 100-mile trek to the Faridpur District to link up with the main Mukti Bahini forces in the area. In the bundles are parts of other weapon, including mortars. Picture by Freer Spreckley. Gemini News Service 1PK6-10/71
GP955 Lt. Col. N.D Ahmad, Principal of Faujdarhat Cadet College in East Pakistan, in front of dining hall as boys queue for lunch.
GP956 A close up of the upper jaw of 9 1/2 million year old Sivapithecus discovered by an internal scientific team in Potwar region, Southern Punijab, Pakistan recently.
GP957 Khan Abdul Wali Khan Leader of the National Awami Party 1PK1 4/72 Gemini News Service
GP958 Press Conference by Ambassador Muhammad Zafrulla Khan United Nations, New York, 29 January 1962
GP959 Animal driven carts carrying [straw]
GP960-62 Parrots carrying mail (GP960-61 negatives)
GP963 Air Marshal Asshar Khan
GP964 Vice-Admiral A. R. Khan, Defence Minister of Pakistan
GP965 Gen. A. M. Yahya Khan President.
GP966 First Military President Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub, N. PK., H.J., President of Pakistan.
GP967 Mr Duncan Sands, a former British Commonwealth Secretary (left) called on the Foreign Minister, Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto this morning June 10 1965 F.2. 372
GP968 A Mukti Bahani patrol lines up for orders at the Faridpur base before setting out to attack a radio station twenty miles away. They killed eight Pakistani soldiers, ten auxiliaries, and silenced the radio station. Gemini News Service picture by Freer Spreckley. 25-10-71
GP969 Freedom fighters in the Jessore District, Picture by Freer Spreckley
GP970-79 Freedom fighters trick to Bangladesh Picture by Freer Spreckley

Photograph selected from the Gemini Photograph Library related to General Disasters.
GP129 Ethiopia. The seven distinct phases of growth and development of locusts displayed with a ruler, ending at the large 'gregarious stage' that devour crops. 6970/A/29 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP130 Pakistan. Young locusts on the march in the sand. 'When this ban of hoppers matures it will join other bans to form a swarm. When this happens they are ready and capable of migrating thousands of miles and all the nations of the Locust Belt are in trouble'. 4865/9 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP131 Morocco. 'This is what it looked like when the desert locusts in their mulit-millions hit morocco at the start of the great plague of 1954-62. Experts believe that this particular ocust swarm migrated from the Horn of Africa all the way across the continent'. Locusts flying through streets. 1066/1 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP132 Tunisia. 'Locusts swarms like this one were a familiar and terrifying sight throughout the Magreb countries during the catastrophic plague of 1954-62'. A man standing in the middle of a giant plague of locusts. 1066/10 written on the back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP133 Sudan. A locust being measured by a worker in a laboratory of Khartoum in the Sudan. Such laboratory study is the basic and necessary detective work of anti-locust control campaigns. 6870/A/7 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP134 Ethiopia. 'Two Ethiopian anti-locust field workers perpare dead locusts for transport to the main laboratory in Asmara for study. Measurements of the insects wings and other body parts are taken regularly because they tell the experts much about a swarm's breeding density and place of origin'. United Nations truck in the background. 6870/G/5A written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP135 Algeria. 'In Algeria's Wadi In Debirene and anti-locust field inspector is about to catch a mature desert locust for study'. He is using a giant net in the desert. 5869/E/17 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP136 Ethiopia. 'Piles of dead locusts in the Ethiopian highlands. This swarm was sprayed with Dieldrin by air for four weeks and wiped out entirely. But not before the locusts had left whole areas in a shamble'. 6870/A/4 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP137 Somalia. 'A nomad walks through a medium thick swarm of desert locusts along Somalia's northern coast'. In the desert. 6870/14 written on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP138 'Sparse rain, poor land, antiquated tools, such as seen here in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), keep most African farm families at the subsistence level, where a crop failure can mean hunger and even starvation. Three men dig in the dry dirt with trowel-like tools. B. on back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.
GP139 'The village of KK Nallur, India is linked with Shincliffe, near Durham. During June and July the monsoon winds damage the thatched roofs. Every year extensive repairs must be carried out before the second monsoon in August and September'. Here two women and two men are repairing a house with logs and other building supplies. Black and white photo.
GP140 'Millions of hecatres of arable land are lost each year to "desertification" - including erosion, loss of topsoil from flooding, ad over-grazing by animals. These windbreaks in Tunisia battle the creeping desert'. Three people setting up the plant windbreakers using shovels and other tools, to try and hold off the sand. D. written on the back. Credit to Photo Library FAO, Rome, Italy. Black and white photo.

Selection of newspaper cuttings of Gemini News Service articles relating to Afghanistan.

Subjects covered include: fighting between the Afghan government and Mujahedin forces, 1990; Afghan refugees in Pakistan, nd and civil war, 1993-1996.

Selection of newspaper and magazine cuttings featuring Gemini News Service articles and graphics selected by founder Derek Ingram.

Subjects covered include: the new fascist right, 1994; the Middle East peace process, 1995; agriculture, 1993; literature, 1993; migrant labour, 1997; wildlife conservation, 1992-1997; refugees, 1995; Chernobyl, 1994; the Gulf War, 1992; female circumcision, 1988; African economy, 1997; Suttee, 1997 and the Soviet Union, 1988-1995.

File of correspondence from the International Press Institute (IPI), created and held by Peter Preston, 2 August 1979 to 1 December 1980.

Correspondents include: Frank Rodgers (Chairman of the IPI British Executive Committee), Peter Galliner (IPI director) and William Whitelaw (MP).

Subjects covered include: IPI membership, August 1979 - November 1980; the Official Information Bill, August - December 1979; IPI Committee meetings and seminars, August 1979 - November 1980; the trial of journalist Salamat Ali in Pakistan, December 1979; meetings with government officials, August 1979 - March 1980; changes to the IPI constitution, January 1980; the election of IPI International Board members, February - April 1980 and IPI finances, April - December 1980.

Also includes notes of discussions between the IPI William Whitelaw, Home Secretary, March 1980 and un-named members of the British Government, August, November 1979; a report on the IPI British Executive Committee, nd, [March 1980]; discussion paper on police relations with the media in the 1980s, April 1980; IPI financial statements for the year ended 31 December 1979; list of members dues and contributions, December 1979 and June 1980 and IPI newsletter, July 1980.
Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Peter Preston (1938-2018)

Also includes a promotional travel report concerning the potential for marketing Gemini News Service in Pakistan by Derek Ingram (Gemini editor), nd.

Correspondence with newspapers and news agencies; lists of local contacts and travel reports relating to Derek Ingram's (Gemini editor), promotional visits to the Caribbean, India, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Malta, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, following the launch of Gemini News Service in January 1967, 1967-1968.

Contains articles, notes, transcriptions of speeches and letters concerning East Africa (early 1960s-early 1970s) and the Kandara Water Scheme (1971).

Also includes copies of KWEUPE newspaper (1964), an Economic Survey of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, September - October 1962 and notes on Pakistan and Bangladesh, c1971.