I thought this was a good article. http://www.dawn.com/2002/11/28/op.htm#3 Beauty and death By Gwynne Dyer "These girls will be wearing swimwear dripping with...
December 2, 2002 India's Poor Starve as Wheat Rots By AMY WALDMAN HANNA, India — Surplus from this year's wheat harvest, bought by the government from...
An excellent article by friend Kalpana Sharma in Bombay; don't know how she manages to do this every week without losing her punch and insight. beena Source:...
thanks to Isa Daudpota in Lahore for sending this piece. beena http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A56134-2002Nov30? language=printer washingtonpost.com ...
From Hasan Zaidi: good article even if it comes from the dinosaur friedman... if you can get beyond the fact that mr friedman seems only to have discovered the...
thanks to Zaheer Kidvai for sending this... beena -- Think of how Bush/Musharraf/Vajpayee/Blair/Usama/etc. dupe Americans/Pakistanis/Indians/Brits/Fundos/etc. ...
thanks to Zarminae Ansari (Nini) for sending this. -- Beena, This is interesting, scary & mind-boggling. If this is the content of the guy's speech, and he is...
Here's a note from Zarminae on the Aghajari death sentence; at the end of it i've copied another letter she posted out. beena ... Beena, I went to the Amnesty...
thanks Nini for sending this "interesting juxtaposition". beena ... Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com Muslims Didn't Bloody Those Borders First ...
A Saudiless Arabia by WAYNE MADSEN CounterPunch Saddam Hussein Public Enemy Number One? Not if one considers it was Saddam who actually rocked the House of...
to appear in The News op-ed, Sunday Dec 14 2002. Media watch/endpiece - 800 w Bangladesh crackdown: Free Raj and Samad NOW! Beena Sarwar Zaiba Malik and Bruno...
Thanks Moeen for sending this poignant and thoughtful essay - long but well worth reading. May the outrage about occupation spread. beena -- This is from the...
... Subject: On the Tenth Anniversary of Ayodhya: Vijay Prashad counts at least one small victory Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 Friends, A decade ago this month,...
A powerful piece by the eminent journalist Mafuz Anam about the Bangladesh crackdown against writers and journalists (from South Asia Citizens Wire, 23...
Thanks to Naeem Sadiq for sending this. Hard to believe that clerics who spread such hate, and completely misrepresent religion, are allowed to function openly...
Friend Naeem Sadiq from Karachi, currently based in Canada, sent the following letter to the 'cleric' who issued the so-called fatwa saying that Muslims...
The apology that wasn't... read on. Thank you Tarek. beena ... From: "Tarek Fatah" <tarekfatah@...> | This is Spam | Add to Address Book To: "TMC-The...
A peace effort by Generation Next: This is an email about an inspiring event that took place in Lahore recently, organized and participated in by almost 50...
Thanks to Naeem of Shobak_News for sending this - Some time back, I was sent another excellent article about a reservist who refused to serve, and what he's...
Thanks to friend Kalpana Sharma in Bombay for sending this on - another long, but really hard-hitting, open letterby a refusenik. beena ... Passover Eve, 2002 ...
dear all, from friend Kavita Philip in Atlanta. She writes: An inspiring story below. protestors CAN make a difference - and it means being aware of how...
Pervez Hoodbhoy is a well known educationist and anti-war activist, based in Islamabad. beena IS IT A WAR ON ISLAM? by Pervez Hoodbhoy Street opinion in...
See msg below from the editors at Opendemocracy.net - excellent website for debating current issues; second, an article from The Times (thanks Arun). beena ......
Dear MoveOn supporters worldwide, Yesterday, we launched a nationwide TV ad campaign in the U.S., which has received a great deal of national and local media ...
hello friends, for some time, there has been an attempt to start a website called goodnewspakistan - I'm pasting below a piece by Sehba Sarwar that might help...
thanks to Dilip D'Souza in Bombay for sending this. beena Subj: Call to Conscience from Vets to Active Duty Troops and Reservists Date: 1/14/2003 10:49:12 PM...
The western media is finally picking up the issue and paying attention to the hundreds of thousands that are protesting the possible US war on Iraq. Thanks to...
