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, by BBC, The News (Pakistan)
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Editorial
The News, August 09, 2007
Not a day goes by these days without news of extremist violence emanating from some corner of the country. On Tuesday night, to take just one of the incidents of this kind, a police check post was destroyed in a bombing in Bannu; (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan), The News International
THE beheading of two women accused of ’immoral’ activities in Bannu has shocked us beyond belief. Apart from the implications this episode has for the safety and esteem of women in our society it also has a frightening dimension - in respect of the war on terror. With Islamic militancy gathering (…)
, by JENSEN Robert
Islamabad, Pakistan.
For my first three days in Pakistan, no conversation could go more than a few minutes without a reference to the crisis at the Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) compound. I had landed in Islamabad on July 8, and by then it seemed clear that government forces would eventually storm (…)
, by HOODBHOY Pervez
Many well-known Pakistani political commentators seem bent upon trivializing Lal Masjid. Although the mosque’s bloody siege has now entered into its fifth day, for them the comic sight of the bearded Maulana Abdul Aziz fleeing in a burqa is proof that this episode was mere puppet theatre. (…)
, by NAQVI M B
The Lal Masjid drama goes on after six months. One regrets the loss of valuable lives irrespective of the exact numbers; numbers vary and a possible final impends. There is little that the state will prevail because of its obvious military superiority. How long this will go on looks (…)
, by HASAN Khalid
Nobody had ever taken the Dodo Party very seriously. That was the reason it managed to take over the country one dull Friday morning when half the men were out shopping and half the women were busy cursing their house help. Those not out shopping or cursing the house help were parked in (…)
, by AFZAL-KHAN Fawzia
As a Pakistani-born feminist academic living in the USA for almost thirty years, I have been horrified, yet fascinated, at the phenomenon that has had the Pakistani public and press in its grip these past six months: the terrorizing tactics of Pakistan’s self-appointed “moral police,” the band (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
“IF Pakistan is to move forward as a democratic and progressive state it is necessary to firmly check sectarian activities, otherwise Pakistan will be reduced to a retrogressive medieval state.”-Punjab CID chief, 1952
ONE of the most relevant ways of looking at the Lal Masjid affair is (…)
, by BABAR Aneela Z.
A friend who is coordinating Samar Minallah’s visit to Washington (DC) to receive the Perdita Huston Award (Minallah has won the 2007 Perdita Huston Activist for Human Rights - the Award itself was established in 2002 to celebrate the work of Perdita Huston, and to recognize the life and (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan), YUSUFZAI Ashfaq
Editorial
Taliban’s ban on music
Dawn, May 30, 2007
THE government can no longer afford to ignore the threats being posed to society by Islamic militants, the latest being the Taliban ordering the shutting down of music shops by July 1 in Darra Adam Khel. By ignoring the question of (…)
, by BAABAR Mariana
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Sherry Rehman, politician “Women today have more to fear than even in Zia’s time.”
Sara Javeed, Consultant “When I drive, I don’t smoke now. I don’t want people accosting me.”
Rehana Hakim, Editor, Newsline “It’s open season on the women of Pakistan.”
Moneezae Jehangir, TV journalist (…)
, by The News (Pakistan)
That the ruling party — or an influential and reasonably large segment of it — often acts as a mirror image of the MMA was shown again on Tuesday by the actions of the parliamentary affairs minister who quite ruthlessly shot down a bill moved by a minority MNA, M P Bhandara, to amend the (…)
, by WILLIAMS Angela
How many Mukhtaran Mais must become the victims of male gang viciousness and have their lives marred forever? When will the ’influential people’, who seem to crop up like fungus in every case, perverting and distorting the process of law, develop a sense of decency, justice and conscience (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan), Khaleej Times, The News (Pakistan)
DEBILITATING SCAREMONGERING
Khaleej Times Online, 16 February 2007
EDITORIAL
THE news that parents disallowed approximately 24,000 children in northern Pakistan to be administered polio vaccines last month on hard-line religious grounds is disturbing and needs immediate attention.
The (…)
A ’religious fanatic’ murdered Punjab’s welfare minister, Zille Huma Usman, in broad daylight Tuesday as she was about to address an open session of her ’meet-the-people’ pre-election routine at the Muslim League House in Gujranwala. The killer was Maulvi Sarwar and the press has tried to play (…)
, by AZMI Razi
Extreme conservatism, the preaching of jihad, Islamist supremacist chatter and terrorist attacks in Europe and America have allowed one Israeli academic to advance a theory that life can become untenable when the Muslim population of a non-Muslim country reaches about 10 per cent (…)
Two separate incidents involving yet more grisly cases of so-called ’honour’ crimes provide further — albeit extremely distressing — proof of the fact that this barbaric phenomenon is still very much alive and well in Pakistani society and culture. They also remind us that the passage of (…)
, by SAYEED Saad
Finally, seven years into his rule, General Musharraf has changed one of the most repulsive laws enacted by Ziaul Haq. Women no longer need to produce four witnesses when filing rape charges or fear they might in turn be convicted of adultery. However, the Women’s Protection Bill (WPB) has (…)
, by JAHANGIR Asma
Zina [all sex outside marriage] remains an offence but the procedure for its complaint has been made stricter and those making an accusation of rape cannot be punished for zina. Thus, false accusations of zina will dramatically drop.
The myth that the Hudood Ordinances cannot be touched (…)
, by Daily Times (Pakistan), Dawn (Pakistan)
PESHAWAR: Governor urged not to sign Hasba bill
Dawn By Bureau report
PESHAWAR, Nov 19: The All Pakistan Minorities’ Alliance has urged the NWFP governor not to give assent to the Hasba bill. The alliance’s chairman Shehbaz Bhatti led a protest demonstration against the bill at the press (…)
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