Monday, March 31, 2008

Fitna, the film

Fitna, the much talked about movie can be accessed in Pakistan, over here. At the moment, at least, before the ISPs block YouTube again.

It is ignorant in the truest sense of the word. Wonder what the fuss was all about. Nothing constructive can really be expected from anyone who thinks someone else's culture is 'retarded'. I don't know why did I even bother.


There has just been (or around 2 hours or so ago) news of a bomb at our university. They evacuated us all out. Most probably a rumour. Don't know the details at the moment. Was fervently praying for a day off ever since morning. Had a test. Funny way for a prayer to be granted. A friend said I should specifically mention, while asking, no bomb blasts God.

Just a related link ==>
More bomb hoaxes at schools:Rumour mill grinds on.

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Where are the Iraqis in the Iraq War by Ramzy Baroud

Five years after the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, mainstream media is once more making the topic an object of intense scrutiny. The costs and implications of the war are endlessly covered from all possible angles, with one notable exception -- the cost to the Iraqi people themselves.

Through all the special coverage and exclusive reports, very little is said about Iraqi casualties, who are either completely overlooked or hastily mentioned and whose numbers can only be guesstimated. Also conveniently ignored are the millions injured, internally and externally displaced, the victims of rape and kidnappings who will carry physical and psychological scars for the rest of their lives.

Read more.

Friday, March 28, 2008

Earth Hour

From the WWF page: Earth Hour is a global event created to symbolize that each one of us, working together, can make a positive impact on climate change - no matter who we are or where we live.

Created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, Earth Hour has grown from a single event into a global movement. In 2008, millions of people, businesses, governments and civic organizations in nearly 200 cities around the globe will turn out for Earth Hour. More than 35 US cities will participate, including the US flagships--Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix and San Francisco.

Earth Hour brings together communities, local governments, corporate and nongovernmental organizations to heighten awareness about climate change and to inspire our nation to take practical actions to reduce their own carbon footprints.

Earth Hour: March 29, 2008 8 - 9 PM

- Cities around the world will join together in literally turning off the lights for one hour to offer leadership and symbolize their commitment to finding climate change solutions.
- Lights will be turned off at iconic buildings and national landmarks from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
- Local businesses and restaurants will also be asked to turn off their lights.
- People at home can take advantage of the hour by replacing their standard light bulbs with energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs.

"This is the perfect opportunity for individuals, governments, businesses and communities around the world to unite for a common purpose, in response to a global issue that affect us all."
- Carter S. Roberts, President and CEO WWF.

Visit Earth Hour's website over here.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

World Peace or Pax Americana by Mir Adnan Aziz

President John F Kennedy made a commencement address at the American University in Washington. The day was June 10, 1963. Later, US intelligence reports had the Soviet Communist Party Secretary, Nikita Khrushchev, term it the best speech ever by a US president. The speech had a profound effect on world opinion as it reflected a total commitment to a future of hope and the possibility of real world peace.

An excerpt from that famous address has President Kennedy describing the road to world peace as: ' I have therefore chosen this time and place to discuss a topic on which ignorance too often abounds and truth is too rarely perceived - yet it is the most important topic on earth - world peace. What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave.
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In today's world, the search for a tragically missing four year old, Madeleine McCann, creates worldwide media frenzy and the recent Tibet unrest attracts immediate undivided global attention and condemnation. Mind numbing though is the global acceptance of thousands of human fatalities in Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Chechnya and Gaza. These barbaric horrors are callously described as collateral damage; a hateful euphemism invented to justify killing of the defenseless.

In this 'strategy of annihilation', out of a total Iraqi population of about 27 million, more than 700,000 have been killed, millions wounded or maimed and 4.5 million have become refugees. In more just times this could have well been termed a holocaust - a genocide. The capital cost of the Iraq war to date is in the $500 billion bracket and as some economists suggest, might end up in the $5 trillion one. Oil, at $36 a barrel before the Iraq war, has been traded at a record high of $111 this month.

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The current American claims of standing up to 'evil' religious groups in the name of universal values are extremely bitter and deeply ironical. It was precisely their earlier disregard of democracy in the Middle East and South Asia which helped give rise to a layer of apparently 'radical' Islam. This was the logical result of elevation of its own powerful interests over the needs and desires of local people everywhere. What we have today is not a World War between a principled America and 'psychotic' groups from another civilization. It is rather the messy bloody residue of their decades of meddling the world over.

Initially justified by false claims about WMDs in Iraq, the war is now being redefined as a 'decisive ideological struggle' of our time. This oracle though is impossible to fathom logically. The perpetually shifting cross hairs are focusing on Pakistan too. With a constantly increasing shriller pitch our tribal areas are being referred to as the most dangerous place on earth. This has been accompanied by a constant litany to do more, meaning thereby, to annihilate our own to rid America of its phantasmal demons.

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Read full article over here

US steps up missile strikes in Pakistan

Owner of the truck involved in FIA blasts dies mysteriously

Owner of the truck involved in FIA blasts dies mysteriously:

From the page:
LAHORE-The owner of a mini-truck that was used in the suicide attack on FIA Headquarters building on March 11 was mysteriously found dead in the Sabzazar police lock-up on Wednesday.

Muhammad Afzal was being considered as an important suspect who could have helped the investigators get a major breakthrough and find the culprits behind this gory incident.

He was was kept in Sabzazar police station for interrogation.

The DSP Sabzazar Ashiq Jutt told The Nation that the accused was in good health and was not tortured by the policemen. He said, Afzal was depressed and on Wednesday asked an on-duty policeman that he and his family are going through deep crisis after his arrest in this high profile case. He later asked the policeman to arrange a cup of tea for him.

The DSP further said that the cop informed the SHO about his demand of tea, which the SHO permitted.
However, when the policeman returned with a cup of tea, he found the accused Afzal lying unconscious in the police lock-up. Other policemen present outside his lock-up rushed inside but at that time it was too late as he had already died, he said.

The body has been sent to the morgue for autopsy, he added.

A police source said that the Muhammad Afzal died due to severe torture during interrogation while police high-ups have denied the allegation saying that he died under mysterious circumstances.
Police further said that the body has been sent to the City morgue for autopsy and his post-mortem report would establish the real cause of the death.

It is pertinent to mention here that the Muhammad Afzal was the only accused arrested by the police in this case.His death in police custody has exposed police acute negligence and carelessness which the provincial capital’s senior police officers showed while interrogating such a high-profile crime accused.

Afzal’s arrest was also being thought to be the only ray of hope for law enforcement agencies to extract important information. His death has also put up a question mark on police ability to handle such a high profile case.

After his death, it is being said that this has put the investigators in a dark alley.

A police source said that the victim Muhammad Afzal was arrested during investigations of the blast incident. The officials of the law enforcement agencies traced him through the registration documents of the mini-truck (used in the FIA blast) from Excise and Taxation Department and later arrested him. According to department’s official record, Muhammad Afzal was the owner of the truck.

When contacted the CCPO Lahore Additional IG Malik Muhammad, said that accused of the case, Muhammad Afzal was found dead in the police lock-up and to establish real cause of his death police was waiting for his post-mortem report.

About the report, he said that a board comprising senior doctors would conduct his post mortem on Thursday(today).

He said that three policemen have been suspended immediately. A case has been registered against the suspended policemen Muhammad Naeem (Muharrar), and two constables Amjad and Sadaqat, the CCPO said.
According to the police handout, Muhammad Afzal, a resident of Bilal Gunj, Lahore was arrested after the official record established him as the owner of the vehicle used in FIA building blast.

During investigations, police came to know that Afzal purchased the vehicle (ST 3985) from Toyota King Motors, Abbot Road but during interrogation he failed to produce evidence that to whom he has sold the said vehicle.

On Wednesday, during course of interrogation Afzal was found dead under mysterious circumstances, the handout further revealed.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Hum Dekhain Gay

I came across this ghazal the other day, Hum Dekhain Gay (We shall see) by Faiz Ahmed Faiz sung by Iqbal Bano. There is such pure intensity in the words, I loved it.

Here is a version on YouTube.



Full song can be downloaded from here too.

Translation by Ayesha
Kaljuvee:

Hum Dekhain Gay
We shall see
Lazim Hai ke hum Bhi Dekhain Gay
It is necessary that we shall also see
Woh Din ke Jis ka Wadah Hai
That day which has been promised
Jo Loh-e-Azl pe Likha hai
Which is written with God's ink
Hum Dekhain Gay
We shall see

Jab Zulm-o-Sitam ke Koh-e-garaan
When the mountains of cruelty and torture
Ruii ki Tarah Urd Jain Gay
Will fly like pieces of cotton
Hum Mehkumoon ke Paun Talay
Under the feet of the governed
Yeh Dharti Dhard Dhard Dhardkay gi
This earth will quake
Aur Ehl-e-Hukum ke Sar Uper
And over the head of the ruler
Jab Bijli kard Kard Kardke gi
When lightening will thunder
Hum Dekhain Gay
We shall see

Jab Arz-e-Khuda ke kabay se
When from God's Mecca
Sab but Uthwaaiy Jain gay
All the idols will be shattered
Hum Ehl-e-Safa Mardood-e-Haram
Us people standing in the mosque
Masnad pe Bithaaiy jain gay
Will be elevated to a higher platform
Sab Taaj Uchalay jain gay
All the crowns will be tossed
Sab Takht Giraaiy Jain gay
All the thrones will be toppled

Bas Naam rahay Ga Allah ka
Then only God's name will remain
Jo Ghayab Bhi hai Hazir Bhi
Who is both absent and present
Jo nazir bhi hai manzar bhi
Who is both the observer and the view itself
Uthay ga Analhaq ka Naara
When the anthem of truth will be raised
Jo Main bhi Hun aur Tumbhi ho
Who I am and you are as well
Aur Raaj karay gi khalq-e-Khuda
And the people of God will reign
Jo main bhi hun aur tum bhi ho
Who I am and you are as well

Hum Dekhain Gay
We shall see
Lazim Hai ke hum Bhi Dekhain Gay
It is necessary that we shall also see
Hum Dekhain Gay
We shall see


I am not familiar with Faiz Ahmed Faiz as a poet. Not very familiar with ghazals/Urdu poetry/Urdu literature as a whole. Things happened in such a way, that I got farther and farther away from Urdu. I feel that I am losing myself in this process, of forgetting, losing my bearings. A sense of the external world.

I suppose I should start reading some of the works, as my brother never fails to tell me. I really should. Losing, have lost, so much.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Gillani vows to free judges

Its funny that he vows only to free, and not to re-instate. Not being a cynic, I really am happy they were released.But I am having second thoughts about the resolution. Such is our history, you cannot be sure. Should we celebrate. For this apparent restoration of democracy. Or should we not.

I got across this late: Aitizaz Ahsan advising his lawyers to forget the May 12th incident. I find it very disturbing. Even though, now that MQM is forming an alliance with the PPP, it might be forgotten anyway.

I do not really understand this PPP's alliance with the MQM. At the provincial as well as the national level. MQM needs it but why PPP? Doesn't signal much stability. Cracks are bound to appear. And then of course there is our dear old General present
(why can't he resign) , waiting to exploit them. He's waiting, he's waiting. He will not resign.

Pakistan resists capitulation by Abdus Sattar Ghazali

11 fresh US demands:

1-The US military and auxiliary personnels should be granted a status that is accorded to the technical and administrative staff of the US embassy in Islamabad. Meaning diplomatic immunity.

2-These personnel be allowed to enter and exit Pakistan on mere National Identification (for example a driving license) that is without any visas.

3-Pakistan should accept the legality of all US licenses, including the arms licenses.

4-All these personnel should be allowed to carry arms and wear uniforms as they wish, across the whole of Pakistan.

5-The US criminal jurisdiction be applicable in Pakistan to US nationals. In other words, these personnel would not be subject to Pakistani laws.

6-They should be exempted from all taxes, including indirect taxes like excise duty, etc.

7-They should be allowed inspection-free import and export of all goods and materials.

8-Allow free movement of vehicles, vessels including aircraft, without landing or parking fees.

9-Selected US contractors should also be exempted from tax payments.

10-Free of cost use of telecommunication systems and using all necessary radio spectrum.

11-A waiver of all claims to damage to loss or destruction of others' property, or death to personnel or armed forces or civilians.

The Seven Demands of September 2001 were nothing compared with the 11 new demands given to Pakistan's Defense Ministry this time. What do they mean? Two of the demands are especially galling. The first is that the personnel posted in Pakistan be exempt from Pakistan's laws and instead be covered by the US criminal system. Tied to this is a demand for waiver from any claim to damages for loss of property or death caused by US personnel. This implies that the US troops would not be asked to account for killing Pakistani citizens, whether military or civilian, or destroying their homes, villages or fields. It is not a license to kill in a way?

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As if the US intrusion was already not enough of it, a set of new demands, which according to a contemporary Washington has come up with, portends making of Pakistan virtually a sprawling Wild West and its citizens another Indian aborigines of America.

The only difference is that instead of settlers, cattlemen and ranchers, here it will be the American diplomats, soldiers and private security militias, having a free run of the country, setting shop wherever they liked and the way they liked and poaching on whoever they want and wherever they want, and with a free ride to kill whoever they wish and maim whoever they desire, without any questions being asked and without being held to account at all.

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More in the link.

Friday, March 21, 2008

On Sarabjit Singh, the Death penalty and Khalid Mehmood

Where do we go from here by Kuldip Nayar

Why Sarabjit Singh should not be hanged by Beena Sarwar

On the subject of death penalty, I am reading ' The Last Day of a Condemned Man' by Victor Hugo these days (the little I can read before going to bed). Using a first-person narrative, it describes the mental and physical anguish of a man sentenced to death. Very moving so far.

Here are the first few paragraphs:
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Condemned to death!

These five weeks have I dwelt with this idea,--always alone with it, always frozen by its presence, always bent under its weight.

Formerly (for it seems to me rather years than weeks since I was free) I was a being like any other; every day, every hour, every minute had its idea. My mind, youthful and rich, was full of fancies, which it developed successively, without order or aim, but weaving inexhaustible arabesques on the poor and coarse web of life. Sometimes it was of youthful beauties, sometimes of unbounded possessions, then of battles gained, next of theatres full of sound and light, and then again the young beauties, and shadowy walks at night beneath spreading chestnut-trees. There was a perpetual revel in my imagination: I might think on what I chose,--I was free.

But now,--I am a Captive! Bodily in irons in a dungeon, and mentally imprisoned in one idea,--one horrible, one hideous, one unconquerable ideal I have only one thought, one conviction, one certitude,--

Condemned to death!

Whatever I do, that frightful thought is always here, like a spectre, beside me,--solitary and jealous, banishing all else, haunting me for ever, and shaking me with its two icy hands whenever I wish to turn my head away or to close my eyes. It glides into all forms in which my mind seeks to shun it; mixes itself, like a horrible chant, with all the words which are addressed to me; presses against me even to the odious gratings of my prison. It haunts me while awake, spies on my convulsive slumbers, and re-appears, a vivid incubus, in my dreams!

I have just started from a troubled sleep in which I was pursued by this thought, and I made an effort to say to myself, "Oh, it was but a dream!"

Well, even before my heavy eyes could read the fatal truth in the dreadful reality which surrounds me,--on the damp and reeking dungeon-walls, in the pale rays of my night-lamp, in the rough material of my prison-garb, on the sombre visage of the sentry, whose cap gleams through the grating of the door,--it seems to me that already a voice has murmured in my ear,--

"Condemned to death!"

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Very powerful.

Khalid Mehmood's dead body arrived at Wagah, in a sack, his body bearing torture marks
. Such degrading treatment is despicable, heinous beyond words. They have some serious explanation to do. There is a strong anti-Sarabjit feeling over here, blood for blood you see. But the hanging, apart from being completely inhumane, really is going to make matters much more worse.

P.S There is something very odd happening with the font size of the last paragraph, dunno why.


Thursday, March 20, 2008

Rachel Corrie's case for justice

Rachel Corrie's case for justice by Tom Wright and Therese Saliba

The darkness is infinite
As I leave the curtain's edge
It is filled with watchers
Silent judges

- Rachel Corrie, about 11 years old

As their plane touched down in Tel Aviv recently, Cindy and Craig Corrie marked five years since their daughter's death. On March 16, 2003, Rachel Corrie, 23, was crushed to death beneath an armored Israeli bulldozer. The Corries are a short distance from Gaza, where Rachel was killed, and where in the past few weeks, an Israeli military incursion killed over 100 Palestinians, including many women and children.

Read more over here.

Check this out too:
Excerpts from an e-mail from Rachel Corrie to her family on February 7, 2003

Another US strike inside Pakistan’s border region by Peter Symonds on WSWS

An air strike on Sunday on a compound in the Pakistani tribal area of South Waziristan that borders Afghanistan has left up to 20 people dead. While Washington has not acknowledged responsibility, there is little doubt that the US military or the CIA carried out the attack as part of a widening covert war against anti-American militants entrenched in the Pakistani border areas.

Up to seven missiles or bombs flattened the compound just south of the regional centre of Wana at around 3 p.m. “When I heard the explosions, I rushed to the place where it happened. I saw dead bodies scattered everywhere,” a villager Aziz Ullah Wazir told the Washington Post. Local residents and officials claimed that the house belonged to a Taliban sympathiser, Noorullah Wazir, and was frequented by “Arabs”—the term used to denote foreign supporters of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Veteran journalist Sailab Masood told the Guardian, however, that local tribesmen were angry that innocent civilians had been killed.

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Both Washington and Islamabad are deliberately playing down the attack, which will only further fuel anger at Pakistan’s support for the US-led occupation of Afghanistan. President Pervez Musharraf’s involvement in the Bush administration’s bogus “war on terrorism” and tacit approval of US operations inside Pakistan were a major factor in generating opposition to his regime.

The issue remains highly sensitive as the winners of last month’s elections—the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)—prepare to form a government. Whatever their limited criticisms of US militarism during the campaign, both parties have a long record of supporting Pakistan’s alliance with Washington and collaborating with the US military. Significantly, neither party has protested against the latest missile strike, an indication that the new government, like Musharraf, will acquiesce to US strikes in the tribal areas.

There are many signs that the Bush administration has expanded covert operations inside Pakistan since the beginning of the year. In early January, the New York Times reported that a top-level White House meeting, involving Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and other senior officials, discussed in detail “far more aggressive covert operations” inside Pakistani border areas.


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In its report of Sunday’s strike, the Times noted that Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence and General Michael Hayden, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, reached an agreement in January with the new Pakistani army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, to allow the US greater freedom to strike targets in the tribal areas without specific permission from the Pakistani Army. The article claimed that the US was receiving “better on-the-ground human intelligence” by providing “large cash payments to tribesmen”.

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At least two other US aerial attacks have taken place inside Pakistan this year. On January 29, a missile destroyed a compound in the village of Khushali Torikhel in North Waziristan, killing 13 people. US and Pakistani officials claimed that Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior Al Qaeda commander, was among the dead. On February 28, a missile strike destroyed an alleged Taliban safe house in the village of Kaloosha in South Waziristan, killing at least 10 people. A local tribal leader told the Washington Post that women and children were among the dead, and that at least six others were injured.

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It is not possible to confirm the identity of the victims of these attacks. In neighbouring Afghanistan, US officials routinely brand the casualties of US operations as “Taliban” and “Al Qaeda” and deny civilian deaths even in cases where locals have provided clear evidence to the contrary. On-the-ground intelligence provided by paid informants is often unreliable and coloured by local rivalries and animosities. Claims about the outcome of US strikes inside Pakistan are undoubtedly just as uncertain.

Other attacks on targets within Pakistan are taking place from US bases inside Afghanistan. Pakistani officials lodged a formal complaint with the US military after artillery fire from Afghanistan hit a house in North Waziristan last Wednesday, killing two women and two children. According to the Pakistani-based News, last Friday four missiles fell on the village of Botraki, just inside the Pakistani border.

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I've just quoted portions. Read the entire article over here

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Palestinians in Gaza lose their livelihoods


The Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) continues its tight siege and prevents movement of people and goods in and out of the Gaza Strip. This includes patients who are close to dying due to denied access to hospitals abroad. Sources from the Palestinian Ministry of Health have indicated that more than 100 patients have died since mid-June 2007. On top of this, the imposed siege has caused the economy to collapse, thereby robbing tens of thousands of Palestinians from their livelihoods.

More over here Palestinians in Gaza lose their livelihoods - Report, Al Mezan, 17 March 2008

The Only Lesson We Ever Learn is that We Never Learn by Robert Fisk

"Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in Iraq and I think of Churchill, who in the end called Palestine a "hell-disaster"."

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"And I will hazard a terrible guess: that we have lost Afghanistan as surely as we have lost Iraq and as surely as we are going to "lose" Pakistan. It is our presence, our power, our arrogance, our refusal to learn from history and our terror – yes, our terror – of Islam that is leading us into the abyss. And until we learn to leave these Muslim peoples alone, our catastrophe in the Middle East will only become graver. There is no connection between Islam and "terror". But there is a connection between our occupation of Muslim lands and "terror". It's not too complicated an equation. And we don't need a public inquiry to get it right."

From The Only Lesson We Ever Learn is that We Never Learn by Robert Fisk

Dawn.com: MINGORA, March, 17: Two policemen were killed and five others were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself in police barracks in Mingora on Monday.

DPO Waqif Khan told Dawn that a young man posing as a recruit and holding a police uniform entered the barracks at Mingora Police Line. He went straight to the wireless room and blew himself up.

Timeline of those killed and injured in 2008 by bomb blasts alone. I was counting from March upwards to February 17th till I reached 156, and then lost count. Mixed up numbers. Then started up again, missed them again. Such are cold, brutal statistics. You lose count. Then go back to your normal lives.

I will try counting them again, one by one.

To be honest, I can't, these days (not that I was ever able to), put anything in perspective. You turn on the news and there is a blast, somewhere. There is shock, then numbness. Watching the news, you can't wonder who did it, you can't hope for answers. Who? Why? How? No, No, No. You can't know. You just sit entrenched in a circle of indefiniteness. A vagueness, everything unclear, shrouded in thick greyey clouds. You can't see. You grope, feel blindly. Nopes, nothing.

Fear, creeps in too. Bomb blasts happen. You lament, grieve. But when they happen close to you, very close, then there is fear too. My mother passes the Mall every day, and ever since it became a hub for bomb blasts, I fear. I really do fear. There was fear when the FIA building was struck. Perhaps, its then, that I come close, or partially even begin to understand the torture of families suffering. When they lose the people they love. Have them missing. For no reason.

Perhaps there is hope in the recently elected Parliament. They are corrupt, yes. But perhaps Benazir Bhutto's assassination has changed something. Perhaps they have abandoned their nepotistic, dishonest ways? Don't feel like hoping too much for that. There is, though, a cause of celebration in the fact that both PPP and the PML-N have agreed to re-instate the judges. A fair and just judiciary is not in their interest, at least not the interests they have chased for years. Don't know how far they are going to go with this.

But if there is nothing else, then at least there are the lawyers. God bless them. Never stopping. The only hope Pakistan has had for years.

Here is a revealing piece on Pakistan's disappeared, in the Guardian by Declan Walsh, thanks to FAST Rising where I found it.

Fehmida Mirza is set to become the first woman National Assembly speaker. Her husband is Zardari's friend and some are leveling charges of nepotism.

Anyway

Gotta go

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Samabiya’s sacrifice by Anjum Niaz

I was moved by this. So I am posting it here.

A quiet hamlet north of Rawalpindi is the last resting place of a father and his two daughters. The graves are kacha and the air around them is sad. In a span of five months, Gul Zareen, the widow has buried two daughters.


Read more


Another blast

Another bomb blast.

I am just numb all over.

God help us.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

A New Beginning

Okay, so now that I've filled my sidebar with everything I could find on the web, I am ready to start posting again. I mean perhaps next week. I thought hard for a name, wanting to change 'An Unnamed Blog' to something less abstract, but the few names that did break into my limited imagination were already taken. In one form or the other. So well, an inane name again.

This blog might follow my usual blogging patterns. Inactivity. Not-upadated. But at least I managed to get a new blog. So there is still hope for me.

Anyway, I love the look of this one. Really do. Thanks to FinalSense for this beautiful template!

Gotta go