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Category Archives: Pakistan
Famed qawwal Amjad Sabri gunned down in Karachi
KARACHI: Renowned Qawwal Amjad Sabri was shot dead in Karachi Wednesday afternoon, after unknown assailants fired at his vehicle in the city’s Liaquatabad area.
The day I declared my best friend kafir just so I could get a passport – Dawn – 01.Jun 16
If you are a conscientious Pakistani, or if you don�t live under a rock, it is hard to ever forget or ignore the kind of infuriating discrimination and shameful persecution that members of the Ahmadiyya community suffer in our country. … Continue reading
The Mangled Political Landscape of Jammu & Kashmir – by NYLA ALI KHAN
The conception of a representative government that would enable the devolution of administrative responsibilities to districts and villages; a socialist system in which the state would control the means of production so as to ensure the fairest distribution of goods, power, … Continue reading
In Karachi, a Fatal Mix of Heat and Piety – MOHAMMED HANIF – JUNE 26, 2015
KARACHI, Pakistan — WHEN I go to buy my drinking water, I don’t ask for water. I ask for Nestlé. Then I drive home with five 20-liter plastic bottles and make sure that we make every cup of tea, and … Continue reading
Posted in Pakistan, Religion of Abraham, South Asia
Tagged deaths, heat wave, karachi, lawful, ordinance, ramadan, ramzan, water
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Remember the Ahmadis of Lahore, remember the forgotten – Dawn – 31 May.15
A small girl who I will call Hina, sits perched on a stool, in the one corner of the living room untouched by the light streaming in from a procession of windows. Everything else is astir; rattling like an incongruous … Continue reading
The Hidden Tears of Punjab by ANDRE VLTCHEK
A lane, a narrow passage to Jallianwala Bagh Garden inside the old city of Amritsar, in the state of Punjab. It is a monument now, one of the testaments to madness and crimes committed by the British Empire during its … Continue reading
Posted in Empire, India, Pakistan, South Asia
Tagged Britain, india, Jallianwala Bagh, massacre, pakistan, Punjab, Raj
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Drones — One white death can change everything – Dawn – 29 Apr.15
“Let us kill the people who are trying to kill us,” President Obama has been reported as telling his aides in relation to drone attacks. Indeed, drones have been the darlings of the Obama administration; their remote capabilities and their … Continue reading
Posted in Empire, Middle East, Pakistan
Tagged civilians, drones, obama, usa, white people
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The 390-Euro Man – A Pakistani Slave’s Path to Freedom By Hasnain Kazim
For more than 16 years, Hanif Masih worked as an indentured servant in a brick factory in Pakistan. Then, an aid organization purchased his freedom. Though he remains extremely poor, he is one of the lucky ones. On the day … Continue reading
Capturing Kashmir by FARZANA VERSEY
They lined up in the wintry chill, some still homeless after the floods, because hope lies in hoping. As one more predator swooped down on Jammu and Kashmir, democracy was declared after the first round of voting on November 25. … Continue reading
Posted in India, Pakistan, South Asia
Tagged army corruption, bjp, farzana versey, kashmir
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The Pakistan zeitgeists: A nation through the ages By Nadeem F. Paracha
The searching 50s Pakistan was carved out from the rest of India in August 1947. It was made up of the region’s Muslim-majority areas on the west and east sides of colonial India. The creation of Pakistan had been the … Continue reading