Whither Human Rights
From the Blog iabhopal In speeches and press conferences, America is tells the world of her love for human rights. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed during the past 15 years in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, including hundreds killed in Tribal Areas of Pakistan. That, perhaps, doesn't involve human rights because the men, women, children and infants killed are mostly Muslim and countries are far away from America. But what goes on in America itself, do the coloured Americans have any right or they also don't belong to the category enlisted by US Administration as "Human Beings"? Every now and then black Americans are beaten / tortured / killed. Only in this year 123 black Americans have been killed after torture. Recent killing of 2 black Americans within few days evoked large pakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
The importance of history and being human
From the Blog beenasarwar With rising racial tensions in the USA exacerbated by bigots like Trump and easy availability of weapons, I wanted to share my friend Jaspal Singh's recent 'Reflections' that he emailed to a few friends from his base in Cambridge MA (visuals added). Also see this post by Partha Banerjee, an activist friend in New York City, on the racism of South Asians (he talks about Indians but it applies equally to others in the region) and the need to contexualise injustice and violence and demand "justice for all the sufferers" and "punishment for all the criminals". [image: Andover PD-Jul 8-2016] #Edhism #BlackLivesMatter #Kashmir #Police We could all use a bit more humanity. A powerful little story shared on Facebook by the Andover Police Department about what happens when we see each opakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
I like Raheel Sharif But He Should Retire on Time
From the Blog pakteahouse [image: raheele] *Raza Habib Raja* Despite considering myself a critic of Pakistan army, I really like Raheel Sharif. He is perhaps Pakistan's most popular person right now. But why is an army officer so popular? The reasons are several. First , he is responsible for the military action against the Taliban. This is a huge achievement. Since 2001, almost 50,000 people have died due to terrorism and yet literally all the governments showed complete impotence to do anything. Unfortunately over the years, Pakistani media instead of condemning terrorists mostly tried to weave conspiracy theories according to which either foreign powers were responsible for terrorism and Taliban militants were actually "innocent". Some elements also presented a narrative that all the terrorism inpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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