Tag: Flogging

  • Op-Ed: Flogging my Sentiments

    My first Op-Ed for Express Tribune Flogging my Sentiments has been published in the Saturdays The Express Tribune, talking about the ever controversial flogging video which has already been extensively debated on my blog running into a very heated debate. In the Op-ed I again take a swing accusing the Pakistan Army and our covert…

  • Women to Reclaim Public Spaces – A Seminar by WAF

    A Programme of Defiance & Resistance by the Womens Action Forum Karachi Press Club 8th May, 2009, 5:30 – 7:30pm Womens Action Forums invites you to a programme highlighting the implications of Talibanisation for women, artists, and minorities in particular, and to our country in general. The Talibans have created terror through slaughtering of people,…

  • ABC: Torture Tape implicates UAE Sheikh

    I seriously don’t know how to react, on one hand we here in Pakistan are fighting a battle against the illiterate Talibans who continue on their rampage of brutality releasing video after video of flogging, beheadings and even suicide bombings, but it shocks me to watch the ‘educated’ stoop exactly to the same level, now…

  • You Asked for it Col. Harish Puri!

    This is in reference to the article of Colonel Harish Puri – “An Open Letter to Gen Kayani” A majority of Indian authors including this Col (R) Harish Puri, are always keen to convey their loaded messages from across the border with laden sarcasm. Indian writers have a convincing way to convey the message in…

  • HUMOR: Job Vacancies in Swat

    Guest Blog by Islamabad Observer Emirate of Ameerul Momeneen Sufi Muhammad, Khalifah-i-Awal, Sawat JOB VACANCIES IN SWAT ABOUT US Emirate was founded and funded in September 2004 by various international intelligence agencies in Sawat and is recently recognized by National Assembly of Pakistan. Our group takes pride in our tradition of successfully delivering numerous projects…

  • View from the other side – An open letter to Gen Kayani

    This article appeared in The News yesterday 14th April 2009, a letter from an Indian Colonel to Pakistans COAS General Kiyani, it raises some very valid questions but more importantly the mere fact that the Signal Corps of the Pakistan Army cannot locate the broadcast center of Mullah Umar’s weekly radio transmission, broadcasted on a…