Posts Tagged ‘Pakistan’
At Gawaahi.com, we urge you to speak out. Speak out against injustice, religious bigotry, violence against women, fascism and any number of problems that are increasingly visible here in Pakistan. At the end of a video showing how government school girls — not potential Taliban terrorist boys in training at madrassas — were parroting the […]
Filed under: Politics, Terrorism | 17 Comments
Tags: blasphemy laws, Gawaahi, Gawaahi.com, Gawahi, Pakistan, Pakistan blasphemy laws, Pakistan Christians, Pakistan minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti
Gawaahi.com — our story
This story has been cross-posted in my website, http://gawaahi.com. If you haven’t seen it yet, please go over and have a look. Gawaahi.com was conceived at a wedding. I know how that sounds, but it’s true. Sana Saleem had just returned from Islamabad where she had trained to record digital stories. I had returned from […]
Filed under: Child rights, Media, New Media, Social Issues, Socio-Economic, Women | 1 Comment
Tags: flood survivors, Gawaahi, Gawaahi.com, Mehreen Kasana, Naveen Naqvi, Pakistan, Pakistan floods, Pakistan NGOs, Pakistan websites, Sana Saleem
Six months after the floods
In the Keamari Town Camp for flood survivors relocated to Karachi, a woman with grey hair and strong capable hands sweeps the inside of her tent. It may be nothing more than a plastic sheet held down by four pegs, its makeshift doors flapping in the wind, but it is the hearth of her home. […]
Filed under: Child rights, Environment, Health, Social Issues | 5 Comments
Tags: Keamari Town camp, Oxfam, Pakistan, Pakistan floods, UNICEF
Power and fear
Last night I went to an unusual event in Karachi. Some of the wealthiest people of Pakistan sat next to the poorest, and when I say that, I mean it literally. Leaders of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party were invited to speak at the same stage as those of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and the […]
Filed under: MInority rights, Politics, Social Issues | 10 Comments
Tags: Citizens for Democracy, MQM, Pakistan, Pakistan blasphemy laws, PPP, Salmaan Taseer assasination, Salman Taseer
We buried a man not his courage
Ten years ago Pakistan was a different place. The country had many problems, and has had since its very inception, but it was not somewhere a man would fire forty bullets into an unarmed man’s back and be lauded as a hero. In the Pakistan of today there are rows of security checkpoints at every […]
Filed under: MInority rights, Politics, Terrorism | 17 Comments
Tags: blasphemy laws, Malik Mumtaz Qadri, Maulana Fazal ur Rahman, Pakistan, Salmaan Taseer assasination, Zia ul Haq
On November 25, 2010, Pakistan People’s Party MNA Sherry Rehman, submitted a bill to the National Assembly seeking amendments to the Blasphemy laws. Since then, the Islamist parties of Pakistan have been in a tizzy. Aside from the announcement of two major rallies – one on December 31 and the other on January 8 – […]
Filed under: MInority rights, Social Issues, Uncategorized | 25 Comments
Tags: Amendments to the Blasphemy Laws Act 2010, Pakistan, Pakistan blasphemy laws, Pakistan religious minorities, Sherry Rehman
Rising out of the Web
Today I learnt a new statistic. 95 percent of aggressive behaviour, harassment, abusive language and degrading images online spaces are aimed at women. This is a global phenomenon but one that can be and is overlooked. After all, when we think of violence, it is physical assault that comes to mind. What takes place in […]
Filed under: Media, MInority rights, New Media, Social Issues, Technology, Women | 6 Comments
Tags: Pakistan, TakeBackTheTech, TBTT
