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‘Talibanisation’: Backwards, forward, twisted around
A journalist’s notebook By Beena Sarwar In November 1999, like many others, I thought that the Taliban were the ‘last gasp of a dying order’. They were isolated in Afghanistan. The world largely turned...
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The Taliban are coming….??? Myths and other realities
The Swat flogging video led to an alarmist, emotional, knee jerk response devoid of any political and historical context among the `bloggeratti’ (to borrow a term from Dr Omar Ali of Asiapeace),...
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The humanitarian crisis of Swat’s Internally Displaced People – Omar Foundation
Further to my earlier note on how to help those forced to become refugees in their own land – the largest internal displacement ever in Pakistan as the army finally takes action against the Taliban –...
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PAKISTAN’S INTERNALLY DISPLACED: Distribution is key. Plus: Women’s voices...
In this post: Update by Naeem Sadiq,report from Mardan camps by Bushra Khaliq and an appeal by the Muslim Canadian Congress 1. Email from Naeem Sadiq: There are numerous reports pouring in that...
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`Pakistan: Chaos unto Order?’ and ‘syllabus of hate’
1. `Pakistan: Chaos unto Order?’ by Haris Gazdar in EPW (Economic & Political Weekly, June 6, 2009 vol XLIV no 23). Extract: The Pakistani military finally appears to have embraced the war against...
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Zardari: two articles and a comment
Meant to do this earlier but didn’t get around to it – two interesting articles about Zardari and a comment July 12, 2009 ‘The advent of Asif Zardari’ by Kunwar Idris – http://tinyurl.com/ksbydc...
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Target killing of doctors; my article of 2002; Dr Sarwar on censoring Jinnah,...
A press release from PMA condemning the ongoing target killing of doctors in Pakistan reminded me of a piece I had written in 2002, published in the Indian Express – googled the key words and found it....
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“We Refuse to Be Held to Ransom By Terrorism”: Veena Masud, Pakistan Women’s...
Veena Masud announcing at a national swimming meet, Karachi, May 2009. Photo: Beena Sarwar I’ve been wanting to do a report on Pakistan’ women swimmers since March 2009, when I first heard Veena Masud...
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Pakistan army should butt out of politics: Asma Jahangir says it like it is
Clip from Crossfire in which Asma Jahangir, the indomitable Chairperson Emeritus of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan, says it like...
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Pakistan Must Discard its ‘Good Taliban, Bad Taliban’ Narrative
Pakistan needs to counter not just those who come out on the street in support of Taliban Inc. but also those who support them tacitly. Thanks to The Huffington Post for inviting me to write this...
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Youth-led, social media-powered movement in Pakistan gains ground – despite...
Woman at a PTM rally clutch photos of missing loved ones. Photo: courtesy Taqra Qabaili Khwenday (brave tribal sisters) via Amna Durrani When Scroll asked me to write something on the Pashtun movement...
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