Big Bird, Ernie, Grover and the Count are missing from Pakistan's Urdu-language version of Sesame Street, but Elmo will be teaching and entertaining the local children with his new friends: Rani, ...

Sim Sim Hamara is the Pakistani version of the children's television series Sesame Street. In April 2011, USAID announced that it would fund $20 million to start a local version of Sesame Street in ...

U.S. officials have cut $20 million in funding to the Pakistani version of ‘Sesame Street,” called “Sim Sim Hamara” amid allegations of corruption and fraud. U.S. Agency for International Development ...

A $20 million initiative to develop a Pakistani version of “Sesame Street” has been cut short due to allegations of corruption, according to a report from the AP. “Sim Sim Hamara” first aired at the ...

Has the Pakistani version of Sesame Street fallen victim to the growing mistrust between Washington and Islamabad? Sim Sim Hamara debuted last December on state-run Pakistan Television after almost ...