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Pakistan: A Revolution, A civil war or a United States sponsored terrorism?
Guest Blog by Silence posted from Islamabad Observer
A perception is systematically being spread in West about Pakistan being a nursery for terrorists and with the recent unrest in Tribal regions of Pakistan, the western media has started a campaign to prove that a ‘civil war’ is going on in Pakistan and some have gone to [...]
Buried alive at Baba Kot
Guest Post by Naeem Sadiq
Baba Kot, is a remote village 80 kilometers away from Usta Mohammad city of Jafferabad district. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reports that it is here that Abdul Sattar Umrani, a brother of Sadiq Umrani, a serving PPP provincial minister, came with more than six [...]
Living with Corruption
Guest Post by Silence
Corruption and governance goes together in developing countries, especially the third world where democratic process is influenced by bloodline, money politics, feudalism, intervention of imperialist powers through military and religious exploitations. The process becomes more painful when the society is trying to develop from under develop, while profiled as ‘high risk investment [...]
Sassi Bhutto in Pakistan
This is nothing close to breaking news but a few weeks ago another Bhutto from within the confines of secrecy to finally emerge into the land of Pakistan. Sassi Bhutto, the 26 year old daughter of Shahnawaz Bhutto is said to have arrived in Karachi about a month or so back and also went [...]
Reference Against Pervaiz [pre-draft]
I share a pre-draft document prepared by the PPP to use as a reference against Pervaiz Musharraf, it was initially forwarded to me via an extremely trusted source to hold in confidence, but we very soon discovered that this same document had been uncovered elsewhere. The pre-draft of references that will most likely be [...]
Just to win peace for myself, my wife and my children
The borders of Pakistan remain under constant pressure from the offensive generated by the American War on Terror, it is this plague amongst other problems that continue to weaken Pakistan on a daily basis. Its ironic that the war is thousands of miles away from the coast of America yet they assume the offensive [...]
Shedding Crocodile Tears over Inflation
The News Tuesday, June 24, 2008
by Aqil Sajjad
The PPP and its supporters argue that the “common man” cares more about inflation than the restoration of the judiciary. They insist that forcing the present government’s hand on the judges’ issue would create political instability, threaten the democratic process and make it difficult for the elected government [...]
STORY OF A SOLDIER: Samad Khurram!
Guest Post by Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi
Reference is the news item, published in the daily news, titled “Pak student refuses to receive award from US envoy“, dated 19th June, 2008 - The News
In this world of hypocrisy, it takes guts to stand up for your beliefs. No one has the courage to challenge the mighty. [...]
Whatever is to become of the Movement for Justice
a letter to activists of the People’s Resistance by Dr. Awab Alvi
One issue which we all have dodged to question ourselves, is to decide what is acceptable when the powers-to-be talk about the ‘conditional’ restoration of the judiciary, either in the form of the much trumpeted 60-point constitutional package or separately.
For me, this movement (People’s [...]
Pakistan; The Ongoing “Soft Revolution” towards a “Welfare State” - Part II
Guest Post by Silence
Part I of this series can be read here
The first Cultural Revolution in history of sub-continent was the Sufi movement, from the 13th century A.D. Sufism increasingly attracted the creative social and intellectual energies within the community and with the passage of time it acquired new dimensions and began to deal [...]
Reporters Without Borders question GEO blockage in UAE
RSF issues an immediate press release questioning the blockage of Capital Talk and Meray Mutabiq on GEO tv
PAKISTAN-UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Dubai-based satellite TV station GEO News censored again
Reporters Without Borders calls on the governments of Pakistan and United Arab Emirates to explain how GEO News, a Pakistani privately-owned TV station that broadcasts by satellite from [...]
Capital Talk & Meray Mutabiq blocked in UAE
Reports are coming in that Hamid Mir’s Capital Talk and Dr. Shahid Masood’s Merey Mutabiq on GEO both programs have been banned by UAE govt.
Hamid Mir on Aaj says it is because of Rehman Malik
What’s the latest gossip? And why? It truly irks me to see Rehman Malik interfering with Pakistans affairs
Guantanamo Bay Prison in the Long March to Islamabad
A special truck customized to represent the illegal prison run by the US Army at Guantanamo Bay is seen to be en route to Islamabad along with the Long March. Some student volunteers were rallied across various student networks to join on the float as mock prisoners.
Catch the Live updates of the [...]
Citizen Journalists cover the Long March
I mentioned a few posts earlier that an initiative has been launched to help cover the Long March procession through its journey from Karachi to Islamabad.
The first day I personally reported on the details of the journey from Karachi to Hyderabad and then Sukkur, it was later followed up by frequent SMS and [...]
Dawn Op-Ed: Marching into History by Cyril Almeida
Published today in the DAWN Op-Ed section by Cyril Almeida
Cyril does well to decipher the Constitutional mess being created these days by various individuals in Islamabad, the chaos of the Double A’s, Double B’s, Triple A’s and what not have been deliberately designed to perpetually confuse Pakistanis of their real implication. This article helps [...]
