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Category: Pakistan

  • GVSummit08: Day 1 Session 4: Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge

    MODERATOR: Ethan Zuckeman. SPEAKERS: Roger Dingledine (Tor), Nart Villeneuve (Citizen Lab), Isaac Mao (Digital Nomads project, China), Robert Guerra (Privaterra, Cuba), Danny O’Brien (Electronic Frontier Foundation) The tools to circumvent web filtering and other methods of online censorship exist, but they don’t always reach the people who need them as easily as they could. How…

  • GlobalVoices Advocacy Summit ’08

    I share with you the Global Voices Advocacy Summit help today on 26th June 2008 at Budapest, Hungary. I apologize for posting this live blog late after the event, it was more because I arrived in Budapest at noon after a 13-hour journey, and screeched into the meeting room just before lunch. The advocacy session…

  • Shedding Crocodile Tears over Inflation

    The News Tuesday, June 24, 2008 by Aqil Sajjad The PPP and its supporters argue that the “common man” cares more about inflation than the restoration of the judiciary. They insist that forcing the present government’s hand on the judges’ issue would create political instability, threaten the democratic process and make it difficult for the…

  • Zibahkhana, Pakistan’s First Horror Film

    Credit to Changing Up Pakistan Blog for reviewing the Horror Film released by a Pakistan entrepreneur and film maker Omar Ali Khan. Omar’s unique entrepreneurial skills can be best appreciated in this chain of desert shops across Pakistan called Hotspot which serves the people of Karachi and Islamabad with some mouthwatering deserts Zibahkhana [which literally…

  • STORY OF A SOLDIER: Samad Khurram!

    Guest Post by Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi Reference is the news item, published in the daily news, titled “Pak student refuses to receive award from US envoy“, dated 19th June, 2008 – The News In this world of hypocrisy, it takes guts to stand up for your beliefs. No one has the courage to challenge…

  • Student refuses award from US Ambassador

    Samad Khurram, an active member of SAC and an undergrad at Harvard Business School refuses an award from the US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson in protest of US policies regarding the support of an illegal President Musharraf and the Mehmand Agency attack. As the video shows that Samad Khurram is called on stage to…

  • Whatever is to become of the Movement for Justice

    a letter to activists of the People’s Resistance by Dr. Awab Alvi One issue which we all have dodged to question ourselves, is to decide what is acceptable when the powers-to-be talk about the ‘conditional’ restoration of the judiciary, either in the form of the much trumpeted 60-point constitutional package or separately. For me, this…

  • Pakistan; The Ongoing “Soft Revolution” towards a “Welfare State” – Part II

    Guest Post by Silence Part I of this series can be read here The first Cultural Revolution in history of sub-continent was the Sufi movement, from the 13th century A.D. Sufism increasingly attracted the creative social and intellectual energies within the community and with the passage of time it acquired new dimensions and began to…

  • Pakistan; The Ongoing “Soft Revolution” towards a “Welfare State” – Part I

    Guest Post by Silence A welfare state is a government that provides for the welfare, or the well-being, of its citizens completely. Such a government is involved in citizens’ lives at every level. It provides for physical, material, and social needs rather than the people providing for their own. The purpose of the welfare state…

  • Is Dr. A Q Khan a thief?

    Guest Post by Zubair Ahmed After reading Mr. Shakir Husain’s “Our Heroes” published in The News on 11th June 2008, I immediately dismissed one of my own hypotheses that said: ‘only’ senior military officers, given a chance to speak on high technology; reveal an uncanny ability to churn out opinionated nonsense. Mr. Shakir fears “Essentially…

  • Long March and… a new generation learns to Mobilize

    Burhan and Riaz Ahmed International Socailists of Pakistan History made an entire cross section of civil society of Pakistan learned and transformed from its own struggle against rules from above. Long march ended today at 6 am with thousands of agitators sending a strong message to those in corridor of power that they know how…

  • Capital Talk & Meray Mutabiq blocked in UAE

    Reports are coming in that Hamid Mir’s Capital Talk and Dr. Shahid Masood’s Merey Mutabiq on GEO both programs have been banned by UAE govt.  Hamid Mir on Aaj says it is because of Rehman Malik What’s the latest gossip? And why? It truly irks me to see Rehman Malik interfering with Pakistans affairs

  • Guantanamo Bay Prison in the Long March to Islamabad

    A special truck customized to represent the illegal prison run by the US Army at Guantanamo Bay is seen to be en route to Islamabad along with the Long March. Some student volunteers were rallied across various student networks to join on the float as mock prisoners. Catch the Live updates of the Long March…

  • Citizen Journalists cover the Long March

    I mentioned a few posts earlier that an initiative has been launched to help cover the Long March procession through its journey from Karachi to Islamabad. The first day I personally reported on the details of the journey from Karachi to Hyderabad and then Sukkur, it was later followed up by frequent SMS and Phone…

  • Ahmed Rashid at Asia Society

    Asia Society in New York recently hosted Ahmed Rashid the author of the latest book Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Rashid talked about complex geopolitics of the region in the aftermath of 9/11, focusing on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the United States, sharply…