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Category: Human Rights

  • Protests in Karachi & Lahore against the Flogging incident

    A number of protests are being organized across the country to condemn the flogging incident in SWAT where a young woman was flogged in public for being seen with another man on the street KARACHI Labor Party Pakistan & Peoples Resistance LOCATION: Press Conference and protest at Karachi Press Club TIME: 4:00pm on Saturday 4th…

  • Public flogging of a woman in SWAT – is this the Islamic way of handing out justice?

    A shocking video which is making news across the local media in Pakistan of a women being publicly lashed in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. Her crime being that she was seen publicly with a man who was not her husband. I think merely watching this video makes me cringe at the skewed concept of…

  • Umeed-e-Sahar – LAAL

    Umeed-e-Sahar an inspirational video by Laal It is my belief that the fate of the country rests on its citizens – considering how are politicians are committed on looting and plundering Pakistan to their hearts desire the fate of our country rests upon the citizens to join hands and say STOP The question to all…

  • Open letter to citizens of Sri Lanka

    by Samad Khurram and Sara Seerat Published in Daily News (Sri Lanka) This letter is our expression of deep sorrow and grief at the savage attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket team while they were touring our country. As Pakistani citizens, we are shocked, angered, and greatly embarrassed at being the source of such anxiety…

  • Revolution in the Islamic World by Women

    Guest post by Farrah K Raja Recently I have been frequently coming across the word REVOLUTION over and over again. Thinking hard at what sort of revolution people might be talking about, particularly in Pakistan. There are officially two sorts of enthusiasts camped on either side of the divide, one being the Islamists and the…

  • The Wounds of Gaza – a report by two Medical Doctors

    Two Surgeons from the UK, Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah and Dr Swee Ang, managed to get into Gaza during the Israeli invasion. They describe their experiences in a medical journal Lancet, share their views, and conclude that the people of Gaza are extremely vulnerable and defenseless in the event of another attack. On the first…

  • No Honor in Killing – Making Visible Buried Truth

    This is an art exhibition of 5 victims of the brutal Nasirabad honor killings it is an attempt to keep tehir memory alive via art and dialogue and seek justice for these women whose murder outrages teh entire nation Art Exhibition and Dialogue ‘No Honor in Killing, Making Visible Buried Truth’ Location: Benazir Gallery Institute…

  • Deconstructing Human Conflict: My Thoughts

    Guest Blog by Hassan Baig Conflict has been one of the centerpieces of our existence since the dawn of the human race. Different millennia may have seen different markers of our species’ cultural and technological progress, the constancy of conflict has never fluctuated. And the present day is no different – us Pakistanis know that…

  • Mukhtar Mai being pressured by Federal Minister to drop case

    Mukhtar Mai is due to appear in the Supreme Court of Pakistan tomorrow on 11th February for a hearing on her outstanding case. Since a few days reports have been emerging that she was under pressure from high level authorities to drop the case, specifically Federal Defence Production Minister Abdul Qayyum Jatoi elected from Muzaffargarh…

  • The Oppressed Have Become the Oppressors

    After the downfall of Nazi Germany, the German people “washed their hands” of any complicity in the Jewish extermination camps by pleading ignorance. Lower rank German soldiers excused themselves by saying that they were only following military orders! Today, in the Holy Land, the Zionist Jews, with the support of the majority of Israel’s population…

  • CBS 60 Minutes Exposes Israeli Apartheid

    CBS 60 minutes aired on 26th January 2009 a section called No Peace Deal Read the entire story on CBS News – Time Running Out For A Two-State Solution?

  • Video – Israel Ambassador to Sweden – Shoe’d

    This video appears to be taken just after the shoe went flying out of control, as the students are irate, but very soon later two books are hurled at the podium and some hot words exchanged. Seems a little satisfying considering how intensive the Israeli government has been in grazing the Gaza strip

  • Shoe hurled at Israeli ambassador in Sweden

    A woman in Sweden has thrown a shoe at the Israeli ambassador Benny Degan and it him in the chest as he was giving a lecture on Israel’s forthcoming elections. While another person hurled two books but unfortunately missed the dignitary. Ylva Kornheffer, a board member of the Stockholm Association of Foreign Affairs, the student…

  • Insurgency in Swat – An analysis

    Abdullah Saad writes a very thought provoking article trying to understand the insurgency in Swat. In the first, he makes an attempt at describing the history of Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shareeat-e-Muhammadi and their political and religious motives behind this war. While in the second part of his analysis he tries to divulge the details of Pakistan Army’s current…

  • Rafia Zakaria: Swat, Somalia and Sharia

    Guest post by temporal from Baithak Blog Speaking of the former rickshaw and truck driver’s reincarnation as PakTaliban Rafia Zakaria writes in today’s News: The hijacking and effective recasting of sharia as a populist tool meant to convert the poor into accepting violence and barbarity as emblematic of Islamic justice is a tragedy. Viewing it…