Posted on my blog (which contains several links for those interested in exploring further - www.beenasarwar.wordpress.com): Initiated by an Aman ki Asha...
"What Drives Societal Change in Pakistan - Faith or Economics" Eleventh Hamza Alavi Distinguished Lecture By Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy Saturday, 22nd December, 2012 ...
The newly formed India Pakistan Families Solidarity Association (IPFSA) alerted me to this case, that I wrote about for the Aman ki Asha page this past...
At last! On 12-12-12, the Indian Supreme Court acquitted Dr Chishty. Earlier, an unprecedented Indian SC verdict had granted him bail to return to Pakistan...
Dear all, Please sign and share the petition "Milne Do: India, Pakistan, let people meet" if you haven't already. Thanks in advance to those who have - and a...
I just posted this to my blog With the world commemorating November 10 as `Malala Day' (http://educationenvoy.org/ - link includes an inspiring video) in...
Dear all, It's been a while since I posted to this group (although I have been updating my twitter feed and facebook pages). Everyone knows what happened a...
The world watched in horror at the televised violence and mayhem let loose in Pakistan in the name of love for the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) last Friday. A few...
Dear all - the Aman ki Asha 'Milne Do' petition against visa restrictions has been launched ahead of the forthcoming Foreign Ministers meeting in Islamabad....
Dear all, Citizens for Free and Responsible Media is sending the following letter to Geo TV, Aamir Liaqat. The signataories' list is taken from the previous...
Posted to the blog www.drsarwar.wordpress.com - former journalist Eric Rahim's thoughtful obituary of Dr Ghalib Khan Lodhi, one of the founding members of DSF,...
Dear all, An exciting update to the story of the late Jagannath Azad's tarana for Pakistan, is that the talented young Shahvaar Ali Khan in Lahore has composed...
Tahir Wasti in London emailed recently that Dr Ghalib Lodhi expired in Karachi. I contacted some of Dr Ghalib¹s old comrades. None of them had heard of his...
Devastated at the loss of one of my oldest and dearest friends, from Lahore 1989; we shared a house in London in 2000, when my daughter Maha was four (her...
Here's the blogpost I just did putting the Prime Minister's disqualification in context, followed by a very clear analysis by Justice Markandey Katju, retired...
Dear all, Much going on, haven't updated this group in a while. To start with here's a link to my recent article "The Kohistan 'video scandal' in context"...
Dear all, I just realised it's been a while since I posted to this group – probably because I've been posting so many updates and article links (including my...
1. On March 28, 2012, Ahmed Raza Kasuri (aka 'black face') filed a petition for high treason (under Article 6, punishable by death) on behalf of the so-called...
Dear all, Some of you must have read Zubeida Mustafa's article about Zulfiqar Ali, a medical doctor on death row who has been educating himself and teaching...
Exciting news from Adil Najam, Vice Chancellor of LUMS - for those who don't know him, Dr. Adil Najam was the Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public...
Dear friends Citizens for Free and Responsible Media (CFRM) is sending the following letter to the mainstream TV channel heads as well as newspaper editors, ...
1. Update from the new lobby group Citizens for Free and Responsible Media, Pakistan re the A-Plus TV 'reality show': Dear fellow media consumers, once again...
So now there's a facebook group Citizens for Free and Responsible Media - https://www.facebook.com/C4FRM Here's the letter we are sending PEMRA and A-TV, as...
A morning show broadcast in Pakistan on Jan 17, 2012, on Samaa, a Pakistani television channel, has catalysed what could well be the beginning of a media...
In addition to the email we are sending Zafar Siddiqi, here's an online petition protesting that outrageous moral policing vigilante morning show - pls do...
Dear all, In a recent morning show, the host chased after couples in a park, humiliating, embarrassing and possibly endangering them, and then proceeded to...
Veteran progressive intellectual and an active member of Pakistan's communist movement, Dr. Manzoor Ahmed of Shah Faisal Colony Karachi, died in Islamabad in...
My recent article for Viewpoint Online <http://www.viewpointonline.net/> , published Jan 7, 2012: Salmaan Taseer: The political context of a `religious'...
