With Anti-American sentiment high in Pakistan from the continued drone strikes and the war on terror, a recent news report disclosed that the United States is planning a massive expansion of its diplomatic missions in Pakistan. While the State Department continues to claim that the expansion is to replace an already overcrowded, dilapidated and unsafe [...]
Read more →Governments and people are challenged to make difficult decisions each day. For most nations, those decisions are about the rights of citizens, the defense of an idea, or the solution of a problem. Few nations must make decisions that include the fight for their very existence against its own citizens. Today, Pakistanis, both inside and [...]
Read more →A friend posted this link on their Facebook profile and after watching, I can only say – wow. Taking nothing away from the people this song was written for and their fight, this should be our motivation in Pakistan also. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RmnBZOUTuI We will not go down without a fight!
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 [...]
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