Politics
Strangers in Our own Land
A few days back at around 8:45 pm, I was heading home via the now well known bottleneck on Khayaban-e-Shaheen, outside Zulfikar Mirza’s residence. I noticed that there was a group of about 50 to 60 women standing outside the home minister’s house, all in head scarves. Slowing down i noticed that they were yelling [...]
[MiniLink] Cheer the Assassin!
Khurram Husain writes a very powerful Op-ed in the Express Tribune Cheer the Assassin!, as much as the blasphemy law may be a part of our constitution, there is no way that anyone be above the law to commit murder, that act in itself is not Islam
[Pictures] Solidarity Day Rally for Peace in Pakistan – Karachi
The Inflicted President
My friends call me fortunate when I tell them that I live in Karachi’s most secure location, opposite Bilawal House, Clifton. They think I live in peace, serenity and tranquility but little do they know about the hardships I have to face every day, especially when the ‘Inflicted’ President is in town. My life cannot [...]
Slogans for Solidarity Day Rallies across Pakistan
In an attempt to gear up supporters of the Solidarity Day rallies across 108 cities of Pakistan – here are some slogans created by activists of the Aman Ittehad Naeem Sarwar Khan. Do spread them around, and we welcome more creative suggestions from the community at large
Solidarity Day for Peace in Pakistan – 1st Jan 2011 [100 cities across Pakistan]
Rallies for peace will be held on 1 Jan 2011 in over 100 locations across Pakistan in solidarity with those suffering violence and repression. We demand accountability of all, particularly those that use religion or any ideology to create hatred amongst the people of the region. We condemn the use of political, military or economic [...]
Dissecting Pakistani Documents on Wikileaks
Over the past few days Wikileaks has been regularly releasing an interesting set of secure cables on Pakistan. it is my belief that these documents will without doubt go down into history books to have been a world changing event, We here in Pakistan till now dont see anything that may suprirse us, we knew [...]
TED Blog: Fellows Friday with Awab Alvi
An interview of mine published on TEDBlog on Friday November 5th 2010, just sharing it here for reference. This interview also included a new interactive feature for TEDFellows facebook page where a question was put up for discussion, the question asked from this interview was “Why do you think there’s a lack of media coverage [...]
Even the Pakistani Embassy in Washington – DOES NOT trust the Govt of Pakistan
In a very interesting email sent out to Pakistanis in North American the Pakistani Embassy in the United States of America at Washington DC has invited people for a fashion show by Deepak Parwani of which 90% of the proceeds will go towards flood relief, but in an interesting use of words it seems the [...]
Pakistan needs a Sovereign & Honest Leadership
Pakistan needs an honest and sovereign leadership. I insist on only these two qualities as my priority. I accept that this may have a personal bias based on my own experiences and knowledge. So what follows is built on the above premise. For some of us, far more important would be ‘left or right’, or the ‘stance [...]
Bang-e-Dara “Mushie Tushie” with Faisal Qureshi & Awab Alvi
On October 1st I was invited by Fasial Qureshi on his show Bang-e-Dara on TVOne to discuss the earlier annoucnoment by Pervaiz Musharrraf to re-enter Pakistani politics. I believe we had a field day, watch the show
Where ‘R’ stands for Reforms – Post Flood Possibilities
Regardless of their many other differences on post-flood scenarios – people, government, NGOs and the political parties are at least principally unanimous on two basic counts. That the ordinary people of Pakistan have received a dismal treatment for the past sixty three years and that here is an opportunity to make amends. Intentions of rehabilitation, [...]
The Education Crisis in Pakistan
The government has cut HEC’s funds in the wake of fiscal constraints. The government has allocated Rs15.8 billion for the HEC for the current year, an amount which is Rs19 billion less than that needed and is under threat of reduction. So far the government has only released Rs1.4 billion of this amount, all of [...]
Conspiracy theories: Mystery Murder or a blatant Assassination of Dr Imran Farooq
Guest Blog by Barrister Amjad Malik The killing of a Pakistani politician and an ex parliamentarian Dr. Imran Farooq, a former convenor of the MQM on 16 Sept 2010 at a busy area of Mill Hill London. Dr. Farooq, 50, was a leading member of Pakistan’s Muttahida Qaumi Movement party and fled to the UK in [...]
