My comment for Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, India March 3 2009 Attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore Terrorists aim for destabilisation, tension, and media...
Revised version of yesterday's article, including a Southasia angle and quotes from various sources. According to a news report, judging by the heavy...
The lawyers' long march and the politics of confrontation in Pakistan, India's response to the attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, and a reminder...
A collection of articles published around March 8, including mine for IPS and The News, plus articles by Kalpana Sharma, Cassandra Balchin, Zofeen Ebrahim,...
Forgot to include the following in my posting focusing on women AYESHA KHAN shares her recent study on Lady Health Workers (LHWs) and Women's Empowerment in...
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46083 Analysis by Beena Sarwar KARACHI, Mar 12 (IPS) - Barely a year after being elected, the Pakistan government faces...
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46119 Analysis by Beena Sarwar KARACHI, Mar 16 (IPS) - A late night meeting between Pakistan's army chief, President and...
A compilation of responses to my last two articles on the `long march' from Hassan Gardezi, Chris Sinha, Zahid F. Ebrahim, Farooq Tariq, Fauzia Minallah, Asad...
In this post - Greg Mortenson & Three Cups of Tea - Kalpana Sharma - Manipur series - More long march responses - Omar Ali, Asad Jamal, Ammar Ali Jan & a...
Hello everyone I'm working on a blog - http://beenasarwar.wordpress.com/ The latest posting there is the 5-min documentary I made on Saneeya Hussain after she...
In this post 1. `SWAT FLOGGING VIDEO' 2. MUSIC VIDEOS - by Shahvar Ali Khan in Lahore and a lovely single by Declan Galbraith, 11 years old when he sung it. 3....
So much going on it's hard to know where to start. The Shanaakht festival disruption, the murder of the Balochi leaders and subsequent violence, Holbrook's...
Hello everyone, have been traveling with limited access to internet, hence the silence. I was among the journalists at a panel discussion 'Does media jingoism...
Greetings people, A lot has been going on that I've been unable to keep up with due to my father falling ill right after I returned from India (he's still in...
When Victor Gordon Kiernan passed away in February this year aged 95, the Pakistani media took surprisingly little notice (or perhaps not so surprising, given...
1. Below, an article I wrote soon after hearing of Justice Sabihuddin's passing away that pulls together various issues linked to the lawyers' movement...
A lot going on but huge backlog (on the personal front, the 'Old Fighter' as his friend Eric Rahim called him still in hospital, fighting on). In this post: 1....
Further to my earlier note on how to help those forced to become refugees in their own land - the largest internal displacement ever in Pakistan as the army...
Here's an update from Pervez Hoodbhoy. UNHCR has organised a text message donation, in which you text "SWAT" from your cell phone to the number 20222 and $5...
Post of May 25 that I forgot to send - In this post: Updates by Naeem Sadiq, Bushra Khaliq and an appeal by the Muslim Canadian Congress 1. Email from Naeem...
Dr Sarwar passes on KARACHI, May 26: One of Karachi's oldest general practitioners, well known physician and former student leader Dr Mohammad Sarwar passed...
Condolences: Lourdes Joseph, longtime activist and office secretary of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) passed away today in Dubai of a heart...
In this post: 1. `Beating Back the Taliban' - my column for HardNews, written May 25, 2009 – extract: Even before the army action, the wild, bearded,...
Hello all, it's been a while since I last posted anything to this list. Have been caught up in a bit of a backlog. Have uploaded new material, including...
(Photo and text at beenasarwar.wordpress.com) Beena Sarwar KARACHI, Jun 28: One of the most unexpected tributes to Michael Jackson after the superstar's sudden...
Uploaded on beenasarwar.wordpress.com with photos Karachi, June 26 PERSONAL POLITICAL `This wonderful Doc…' Beena Sarwar She is not the grave-visiting sort....
1. Remembering KO - Kaleem Omar in an age gone by 'The News on Sunday', July 5, 2009 - http://tinyurl.com/lbw38m with contributions by Irfan Husain, Salman...
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