Year: 2009

  • Solidarity Day 1st January 2010 – Karachi Press Conference

    At 3:00pm today representatives of the Aman Ittehad namely Justice Majida Rizwi, Senator Iqbal Haider, Anis Haroon, Bishop Ijaz Inayat, Uzma Noorani, Mumtaz Tanoli, Uzma Aslam, Barrister Zain and a few more people addressed the media at the Karachi Press Club today. The Aman Ittehad leaders shared with the media plans for the peace rally…

  • The Aftermath of the MA Jinnah Road Bomb Blast

    Following the bomb blast in Karachi – life generally goes on, but the people, the shopkeepers, the families who have suffered shall never forget the day an unruly mob changed their lives forever. Here I happened to photograph this shopkeeper on MA Jinnah Road who sits helplessly watching as many fire tenders try their best…

  • American forces Harass a Pakistani Citizen in Karachi

    Mubashir Lucman in his show Point Blank on Express News which was aired yesterday on the evening of 29th December presents some sweeping evidences of the role of American forces in harassing Pakistani citizens, specifically intimidation and interrogation of Dr Mehvish Baig in Karachi – a naturalized Pakistani American who has been trying to give…

  • MA Jinnah Road Bomb Blast of 28th Dec – Video of the devastation Next Day

    A Bomb Blast ripped through MA Jinnah Road on 28th December 2009 – this video of the kilometer long stretch of road shows that the mobsters ransacked a large section of the street leaving a hundreds of shopkeepers devastated and a loss of millions of rupees. A group of concerned citizens sympathized with many shopkeepers,…

  • Joint Press Conference by Aman Ittehad in Islamabad – Solidarity Day 1st Jan 2010

    A very well-attended joint press conference was held today at the Islamabad Press Club by the Aman Ittehad to announce the Solidarity Day across Pakistan in 37 cities on 1st january 2010 at 3:00 Mohammad Tahseen addressed the conference alongwith Dr. Said Alam Mehsud, Ali Asghar Khan, Rukhshanda Naz, Jaffer Memon, Prof Dr. Sarfaraz Khan,…

  • Collateral Damage and Pakistan’s (read American’s) War on Terror

    Guest Blog by Omar Javaid If Pakistan’s Establishment / Military intends to neatly wrap up the on going onslaught in Waziristan Area (Read America’s War ‘of’ Terror), then it must avoid killing civilians (watch the first two video) at any cost … why? To get an answer watch the 3rd clip in which Imran Khan explains…

  • Solidarity Day for Peace in Pakistan – 1st Jan 2010 – Aman Ittehad

    Considering the spiraling security situation in Pakistan a number of civil society organizations have joined forces across Pakistan to hold a peace rally on 1st January 2010 as a Solidarity Day at 3:00pm in 37 cities across Pakistan The Solidarity Day is organized under Aman Ittehad — a citizens’ platform connecting trade unions, media, students,…

  • Talibans want to Negotiate for Peace with Imran Khan as a mediator

    Today The News published a report of an audio tape delivered to their offices in Peshawar of a Taliban leader suggesting that they would like to discuss the possibility of a peaceful resolution in the region and offered the name of Imran Khan as a potential mediator. Looking at the news item published in the…

  • The Biharis, The Non Bengalis, The Stateless or The Pakistanis!

    By Dr. Mujahid Ghazi It is 16th December. Every year this day reminds me of the painful event in 1971 when Sonar Bangla, the East Pakistan fell and hundreds and thousands of patriotic Pakistanis became prisoners of ego and lost everything including their citizenship and became stateless. After 38 years those Pakistanis along with the…

  • 16 Dec decision of Supreme Court – A Critical Analysis

    By Barrister Amjad Malik 16 Dec Supreme Court short order was an expected response of superior judiciary. Federation and all provinces through their lawyers jointly consented to its repeal, and none came to rescue the beneficiaries and even academic discussion was not made possible on the topic of powers to issue and right course of…

  • Asher Hasan’s message of peace from Pakistan at TEDIndia

    Asher Hasan, CEO of Naya Jeevan who was a TEDIndia Fellow at the TEDIndia conference held in Mysore, Bangalore this November. Asher brilliantly articulated the message of peace from Pakistan within the short 5 minute TED talk, truly Asher did the entire Pakistani delegation proud that afternoon in Mysore.

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  • APC’s making their way to Quetta / Waziristan? (US/NATO?)

    UPDATE I – Observers have been trying to identify this APC and best guestimates are of a long wheel base US Stryker possibly an M1135 NAB-RV [Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle] UPDATE II – It is possible after observing the wide wheel base that this vehicle is actually a Short Range Ballistic Missle Launcher (upto…

  • NRO declared Null and Void – What Now?

    After a lapse of over two years, today a full bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan came through with a historic judgment declaring the 2007 National Reconciliatory Ordinance null and void. It must be recalled that the NRO was the mastermind of the then President of Pakistan General Pervaiz Musharraf who in October 2007…

  • He who is Not a Sinner should Cast the First Stone

    By: Amjad Malik, MA, LLM I have been vehemently advocating the need to erect a system of accountability by invoking a new commission and an Act of Parliament to curb mal practice, plundering and looting whilst one is holding a public office. This new Commission can truly ensure compliance with the Clauses of Article 62…