The uproar in Pakistan continues over Musharraf's arbitrary removal of the Chief Justice on charges of 'misuse of authority'. Protests reported on private...
Today, some 1200 lawyers battled police in Lahore for three hours; several were injured, 50 arrested. They were protesting Musharraf's dismissal of Pakistan's...
Hello all Wanted to share with you the International Women's Day event here yesterday (March 8, 2007). The Students Alliance for Gender Equity (SAGE)along with...
Why it's called Kidney Hill, I don't know. But I do know that the Karachi public needs more parks. Housing too - but not on alloted parks that are grabbed and...
Note: I wrote this article for a Nieman Reports issue focusing on courage in journalism. Shortly after it was published, the journalist Hayatullah Khan, whose...
How to stop genocide in Iraq Offering the carrot of U.S. withdrawal may be the best way to end ethnic cleansing in Iraq. By Samantha Power, a professor at...
Naeem Bokhar is a very well known lawyer and television personality. This is a brilliant and courageous letter. Worth reading in full. Thanks to ZAK for...
Hello again - here's something else I wanted to share with everyone, from friend Isa Daudpota in Islamabad, posted to his list after I sent out Chomsky's...
Another email from the Pakistan-India Peoples Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) yahoogroup, forwarded on behalf of Jatin by Sukla Sen. Please support the...
Horrific news, this. See BBC for details: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6375749.stm beena ... From: Ravi Stephen <peacemaker@...> Date: Feb 19,...
Foreign Policy in Focus http://www.fpif.org/ Commentary - Chomsky on Iran, Iraq, and the Rest of the World by Michael Shank Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist,...
Greetings all An uncle in Glasgow, Eric Rahim, sent an email yesterday, saying "A former student of mine (large, bearded associate professor in Peshawar) has...
Hello all 1. Link to a Reuters video clip about Pakistan's disappeared. 2. Follow up report on the young man who was beaten and stripped by the police in 'The...
Dear all 1. Details about the ongoing Newsline case (follow up to my last posting re: pressures on the Pakistani media) 2. Report by Marianna Babar (The News)...
Hello all Pakistan's military-led government is very edgy about its public image. They don't seem to realise that you can't build a 'soft image' on unpleasant...
As 2006 ends, there's so much to take stock of - the unending nightmare of the Iraq war and the worsening situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan - where the...
Dear friends below, an essay by friend Nalaka Gunawardene in Sri Lanka- email: alien@... - published in OneWorld South Asia. He says: "Feel free to ...
Thanks to Naeem Sadiq for sending this on beena [image: SignAndSight.com] Features » Politics And Society http://www.signandsight.com/features/1071.html and...
Akbar Zaidi makes the interesting point in the latest issue of EPW that military dictatorship/rule in Pakistan has never been really actively resisted (except...
Dear all We're having a couple of events here on Dec 5 that I thought you'd like to know about, details below 1. Seminar: Pakistan : State Aggression and its...
Thanks to Murtaza Solangi for bringing this to my attention: With Hayatullah Khan already dead, today Dilawar Khan Wazir, Urdu language correspondent for the...
1. Thanks to Adil Najam for this piece, marking November 5 - the 25th anniversary of the creation of the Women's Action Forum (WAF) in Pakistan. From his blog...
This makes the situation even more ominous than it first appeared. Thanks to Paul Fitzgerald and Liz Gould for sending this on. beena p.s. On another note - we...
Bad news this morning re: the Pakistan army bombing a madrassah in Bajaur. When will they understand that force will not stop 'terrorism'. Good report at: ...
From Dr Shabir Choudhry, a Kashmiri writer and activist based in the UK. beena 28 October 2006 When I became a 'Jihadi' Dr Shabir Choudhry Jihad has become a...
Thanks to Rao Abid in Lahore for sending this important email on. Mirza Tahir has been in jail for 18 years since a visit to Pakistn during which he killed a...
Below: - Gems from Mush's visit to Empire compiled by David Barsamian - Pervez Hoodbhoy's excellent article published on the anniversary of Pervez Musharraf's...
Rahimullah Yusufzai in The News on Sunday this week 'Transending borders' It appears that both sides have realised that military solution of the conflict with...
A couple of stories in the latest issue of Binu's Countercurrents jumped out that I'd like to share - a comment in the Washington Post by scholar Tariq...
Hello all First, a quick correction re: my account of Musharraf on the The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Sohail Habib says: "Actually he was asked who (Bush or...
