In 1999, Nawaz Sharif’s government passed a Nizam-e-Adl bill that got harsh criticism from the Awami National Party. Asfandyar Wali gave a fiery speech on the floor of the National Assembly that I am still looking for, but I stumbled across this comment that he made and thought I would share it as food for [...]
Read more →Mr. Prime Minister, first remove from the Federal Cabinet those who have stood up in our August assemblies and defended the right to torture and punish women. Your words fall on deaf ears when you sit in a cabinet meeting with those who believe that women have no rights in Islam or based on their [...]
Read more →What a disgusting example of what is coming for the people of Swat! I read about it in the newspaper this morning and then saw the video on Geo and Dunya TV. It is disgusting that this should be tolerated. Yesterday, in a busy bazaar in Kabal, Swat, became a disgusting courtroom for the dispensation [...]
Read more →Do you have any ideas on what can be done to empower the people of the nation rather than complaining about not having the high-powered tools to fight terrorists after they have launched an attack? I, like many other Pakistanis, have spent a lot of time getting pissed off over the sheer number of terrorist [...]
Read more →In a story posted today on the Times of India website, Lt. Col. S. P. Purohit’s name has been added to a charge sheet for the 29th September blast in Malegaon remanding him and Pragya Singh Thakur into judicial custody till January 20. On September 29, 2008, a motorcycle laden bomb went off in Malegaon [...]
Read more →I was reminded of a comment made by Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilani that Palestinians risked a “shoah,” the Hebrew word for a big disaster and for the Nazi Holocaust. While his colleagues insisted to the international media that he had not meant “genocide” the events of the past few weeks would lead us [...]
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