Published in The News on Sunday, Political Economy section, Aman ki Asha page today, May 2, 2010 - http://tinyurl.com/33yze2n April 22 2010 Dear Beena, I know...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
May 9, 2010 2:07 pm
1. Why I hate Mother's Day: "Mothering has been the richest experience of my life, but I am still opposed to Mother's Day. It perpetuates the dangerous idea...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
May 10, 2010 7:33 pm
'What I understand about Faisal Shahzad' - I enjoyed this piece by Pakistani American Wajahat Ali on the Faisal Shehzad issue in Salon.com. Excerpt: Pakistanis...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
May 16, 2010 2:49 pm
Lovely photos of Happy Home school kids participating in the Aman ki Asha peace hankies campaign at my Flickr site -...
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Beena Sarwar
bsarwar1
May 21, 2010 2:22 pm
Quick update from Delhi - from where events in Pakistan look even more bizarre: 1. Pakistan Quashing Net Freedoms, Citizens Speaking Out: http://bit.ly/976TxU...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
May 26, 2010 6:30 am
Here is the message I just tweeted: "We remember departed loved ones every day. So why does the 'barsi' assume such significance? Doc, yr guiding spirit & love...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
May 29, 2010 8:58 am
I signed this petition to Stop Constant Harassment and Mental Torture of Diep Saeeda Indo Pak Peace Activist – pls read and sign also. I hope they're going...
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Beena Sarwar
bsarwar1
May 31, 2010 8:33 am
Dear friends: There was a front page photograph the day after the Lahore massacres, of an elderly Ahmedi with a cap and small white beard, hands 'clasped...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
May 31, 2010 6:15 pm
Just since Friday: First the Maoist train attack in West Bengal, then the Ahmedi massacre in Lahore the same day, and today, just as we're getting our breaths...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Jun 6, 2010 9:59 pm
We got lots of rain in Karachi, and pleasant weather (not so pleasant for those poor souls whose homes got flooded), but after much suspense, Cyclone Phet...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Jun 7, 2010 6:17 am
Thanks to Sandy Tarlin in NY for this update from Tikkun (magazine@...) including: - Editors' note on the assault on Uri Avnery, 86, after he spoke at...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Jun 10, 2010 5:57 pm
Mansoor Saeed was special. Friends in Lahore, do attend REFERENCE In the beloved memory of COMRADE MANSOOR SAEED (Nov 1, 1941- May 24, 2010) Sunday, June 13,...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Jun 22, 2010 5:43 am
My curtain raiser in The News yesterday about the new Milne Do (let people meet) campaign launched by Aman ki Asha, the peace initiative between the Jang Group...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Jun 27, 2010 8:26 pm
Hello everyone. Three items below - and congratulations to Shah Nawaz Khan Achackzai of Chaman for winning first prize in a speech competition in Balochistan...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Aug 15, 2010 9:35 pm
Dear all, This is a very long overdue post. I'll start with some sad news - Dr Ayub Mirza, stalwart of the Democratic Students Federation (DSF) and Communist...
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Beena Sarwar
bsarwar1
Aug 16, 2010 6:49 pm
Please see email below from friend and activist Naeem Sadiq. This is a highly trustworthy (Aitemad in fact means 'trust') & group of people working for flood...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Aug 17, 2010 9:45 pm
Dear all, Please see my blog www.beenasarwar.wordpress.com <http://www.beenasarwar.wordpress.com/> for more links to reliable organisations. Another one I...
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Beena Sarwar
bsarwar1
Aug 19, 2010 8:52 am
Dear all, Karachi Relief Trust is a disaster management organization, originally started by a group of individuals (many of whom I know personally) to help...
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Beena Sarwar
bsarwar1
Aug 19, 2010 8:47 pm
Friends in USA: Send $10 through your cell phone by texting the word "FLOOD" to 27722 (I guess +1-27722 from outside the USA). Set up by US State Dept Pakistan...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Aug 24, 2010 6:14 am
Re: the brutal mob lynchings of two brothers in Sialkot – there is outrage, and various young people have organised protests against the brutality: Karachi...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Aug 28, 2010 8:20 pm
My article Beyond politics in Aman ki Asha page Aug 25, 2010 (www.amankiasha.com) below - re joint flood relief efforts by Indians, Pakistanis & others. Also...
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Beena Sarwar
bsarwar1
Aug 29, 2010 5:35 pm
Dear all - I've sent out mails and postings about Karachi Relief Trust before - but thought this personal note was worth sending out again. One of their most...
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Beena Sarwar
bsarwar1
Sep 5, 2010 10:25 am
Dear all, please see below information about the forthcoming PWA conference in Birmingham, and let friends who'd be interested know. Here are links to my last...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Sep 10, 2010 9:52 pm
1. The Indo-Pak Express: Aisam ul Haq Qureshi (who had in 2002 teamed up with Israeli Amir Hadad at Wimbledon & the US Open) the other day became the first...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Sep 12, 2010 8:51 pm
I enjoyed this comment by Reena Satin in Varanasi: "For me (an opportunist atheist) ALL festivals are great excuses for eating sweets (re Eid & Ganapati & Rosh...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Oct 6, 2010 6:13 am
Hello everyone. 1. LONDON VISIT: Am going to be in London this coming week for a Pakistan journalists tour of London October 11-17 with some other journalists:...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Nov 12, 2010 1:48 pm
Hello everyone - long overdue post - been traveling a lot and also updating more on twitter and on my blog. A couple of recent articles on Pakistan & India -...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Nov 16, 2010 9:04 pm
Eid greetings to all those celebrating. Hope people heed Sadiqa Salahuddin and Pakistan Animal Welfare Society suggestion to donate breeding goats to floods...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Dec 9, 2010 8:57 am
Dear all Below: links to some of my recent articles, including about the 'blasphemy law' and secularism in Pakistan, followed by an appeal from Avaaz.org that...
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beena sarwar
bsarwar1
Dec 20, 2010 3:59 pm
DSF DOCUMENTARY SCREENING: Friends in Karachi are invited to T2F on Dec 30th at 7.00 pm for a screening of 'Aur Niklei.nge Ushhaq ke Qafley', the documentary...
