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  • Collection Drive for IDP Relief team to Swat

    UN estimates there are 980,000 people being displaced out of NWFP – there is tremendous suffering and a severe lack of funds and Volunteers. Facebook Event – Collection / Donation appeal for IDP’s in SWAT I plan to lead a team to the affected areas hopefully to depart from Karachi on the 18th of May…

  • Monitor the Swat Crisis via Live Blog

    It has been for some time that the online community has found a great utility of monitoring events as they unfolding. We utilize the CoverItLive application which allows timestamped live updates while at the same time the application monitors twitter of the latest updates appearing there. Presenting the entire event in one concise framework. Our…

  • Shameful Flight – Redux

    “Only in the desperate days and weeks after those celebrations of mid-August did the horrors of Partition’s impact begin to emerge. No viceregal time had been wasted in planning for the feeding and housing and medical needs of ten million refugees. No British officers or troops remained to keep the peace in shattered Punjab, or…

  • Survey shows 52% people NOT favoring Army incursion in NWFP | 72% supported Peace Deal

    International Republican Institue which has since 2006 been conducting some valuable opinion polling in Pakistan has just recently released their tenth survey – You can download the charts and graphs using this link [PDF] | While the descriptive review can be read here [PDF] The poll was conducted March 4-30, 2009 comprised of a randomly…

  • Swat Crisis: Support the Internally Displaced Persons [IDP’s] in Pakistan

    Credit – Chowrangi There is a very serious military offensive in the northern areas of Pakistan [Swat, Dir, Buner and adjacent locations] the offensive is to uproot the terrorists from the region but innocent Pakistani are suffering and are actually being displaced out fo that region migrating to safer regions like Mardan, Charsadda and Peshawar.…

  • The Writ of Government

    It’s the most popular mantra of the Ruling Elite & its intelligentsia to justify military operation to counter the existing wave of terrorism. Here are some of the examples from Pakistani Ruling Elite that fall under the writ of Government according to them. If a minister marries her sisters to The Quran by taking Ruling…

  • 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,…

  • What is happening in Buner

    This email was submitted by Zia ur Rehman on the Peoples Resistance mailing list I noticed some news from the inhabitants of the Buner who are regularly in touch with their families via phones. The military is targeting the civilian population instead of hideout of the militants which resulted the casualties more than 100. The…

  • Two Washingtonians On Pakistan

    Pakistan. ‘s neo-conzix point man Husain Haqqani in Washington wrote in WSJ: Now that the Taliban have been driven out of Buner, and Pakistani forces have militarily engaged them just outside their Swat Valley stronghold, it should be clear to all that Pakistan can and will defeat the Taliban. Leap of logic by a person…

  • Talibanization: National Achievement Awards

    In due recognition of our government and military’s efficiency in reducing the spread of Talibanization over the years, it is recommended that land be allotted to each official in scenic locations in Swat, Bajaur and Waziristan. Please note that this is a partial list only – the contributions are endless and further nominations are welcome.…

  • Where is the Pakistan Army?

    Dr. Farrukh Saleem writes for The News analyzing the strategic deployments of the Pakistan Army according to his rough estimates a total of 89,568 square kilometers of Pakistani territory is either under complete ‘Taliban control’, ‘contested control’ or ‘Taliban influenced’; that’s roughly 11 per cent of Pakistan’s landmass. The sickening reality is that having lost…

  • The Forthcoming Horror in Swat

    This is an update on the Swat situation which was posted onto the Peoples Resistance Mailing List by Dr. Riaz Ahmed on 24th April [three days back]. I believe this analysis is worth reading and understanding the ground reality from the people in swat and their concerns surrounding Sufi Mohammad and the possible incursions by…

  • 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…

  • Taliban factions potentially joining forces against Obama, Zardari & Karzai

    We have long since known that the Taliban entity is not a mere single unified front waging a war in the North Western regions of Pakistan but a hodge podge of various groups working independently for their own vested interests. There are potentially three Taliban factions one headed by Baithullah Mehsud which was working against…

  • Pakistan is Not going to Collapse!!!

    These days you will see massive campaigns against Pakistan identifying its security failures, deal with Talibans and the ultimate fall by loosing Nuclear Weapons to the extremists putting every inch on earth in danger. Stop getting afraid of this massive propaganda campaigns spreading fear among the Pakistani people that Pakistan is going to collapse. Pakistan…