Greetings from chilly Islamabad where the air is warm with hope as Vajpayee is set to arrive tomorrow for the Saarc conference - and there are other activities...
Hello everyone Copying below a brief article by Dr Mubashir Hasan, and a note from a friend in Nepal, re: a daily 4-min discussion re: Saarc that Bharat ...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/010204A.shtml 10 Good Things About a Bad Year By Medea Benjamin AlterNet Wednesday 31 December 2003 No two ways about it, 2003...
January 12, 2004 issue of The Nation, New York http://thenation.com Despair Is Not an Option by William Sloane Coffin Many people believed at the time that the...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=478389 Israeli colonel resigns over army's 'immoral' actions By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem 05...
Thanks to Isa Daudpota for sending this on, from Rinku Dutta Subject: An Indian Hindu woman in Lahore talks of blurred identities and exhorts us to be humane...
published in Pakistani daily papers The News, January 13, 2004, The Nation January 14, 2004, Daily Times January 14, 2004 Time to deliver By Dr Mubashir Hasan ...
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/jan2004-weekly/nos-11-01-2004/lit.htm#2 Short story The flower pot By Sehba Sarwar It is 1965. She is one year old as India and ...
This is from friend Asim Awan, who used to write for us at The News on Sunday, & was on a break in Sargodha where I guess he had some time on his hands! beena ...
http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat/index.html#report LOSING PERSPECTIVE IN THE WAR ON TERROR Dr. Jeffrey Record normally teaches strategy and tactics at the U.S....
Greetings from Bombay everyone, this is a quick note followed by the brief report I sent to The News yesterday. In all the rush, I forgot to mention that the...
US war on terror is a violation of international law: Ramsey Clark From Beena Sarwar exclusive to The News MUMBAI (Guregaon): "If India and Pakistan can't live...
Piece in Toronto Star by Tarak Fatah, in which he suggests that Muslims are justified in protesting against the racist French law. However, their silence in...
Wrote this for 'The News on Sunday', before going to WSF. The News on Sunday, Jan 18, 2004 http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/index.html Muna's ordeal As usual, it...
excellent piece by filmmaker Anand Patwardhan in Bombay. beena Source: The Hindu (http://www.hinduonnet.com/mag/2004/01/18/stories/2004011800120500.htm) CINEMA...
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/printpage/0,5942,8464084,00.html Michael Costello: There is no missile defence, only perils 23jan04 NATIONAL missile defence....
Hello all, Sharing the two articles I recently wrote re: Kashmir, one based on discussions and meetings at WSF, for The News (www.jang.com.pk) today, and the...
GUSH SHALOM - pob 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033 - http://www.gush-shalom.org/ Nobody killed in al Nabi Saleh; just 500 old and young forced to stand hours in the cold -...
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 From: Jay Shaft/EDITOR CFTM <freethoughtinmedia@...> Two US Soldiers ask: "When will we stop dying so senselessly?" Interview by...
A.Q. Khan might be a 'scapegoat', but personally many of us have to admit to feeling rather pleased that he's in the dock - he has made millions not just...
Thanks to Tarek Fatah in Canada for sending out this piece by Naeem Mohaiemen, a US based Bangladeshi historian and media activist - who was instrumental in...
News on Sunday, Feb 1, 04 http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/feb2004-weekly/nos-01-02-2004/dia.htm For a just order Washington's response to the terrorist attacks...
Two pieces by me on freedom of information - for the News, and a paper on the same issue presented at a seminar in Karachi recently (some people might find the...
hello people, those who get Geo TV, please look out for the three special discussions with Indian and Pakistani activists that I produced, the first of which...
Excellent piece exposing unofficial and official kinds of censorship, as brought out by the Mumbai International Film Festival and the parallel protest fest...
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/021904A.shtml The One You’ve Been Waiting For By William Rivers Pitt t r u t h o u t | Perspective Thursday 19 February 2004 ...