“First they came …” is a popular poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. In Niemöller’s first utterance of it, in a January 6, 1946 speech before representatives of the Confessing Church in [...]
President Zardari’s struggles against a ‘belligerent’ Geo News seems very strange,if seen in isolation. Supposedly Geo News is working for ‘freedom of expression’ previously against a dictator and now against a democratically elected president. Geo and its parent Jang group are well versed in judging the ‘trend of the time’.
Zardari is unpopular due his alleged [...]
Mirpur city of Kashmir is often called the ‘eastern most city of United Kingdom’ due to big population of British Kashmiris (Pakistanis or just Muslims, whatever they want to be known as).Jars of Marmite(a British peculiarity which I have never tasted) and tins of tuna fish and ‘baked beans in tomato sauce’ are easily available [...]
Like Agusto Pinochet and American interference in chile, CIA, Ronald Regan General Zia Ul Haq and Afghan Jehadis played a dangerous game with the destiny of Pakistan.
Tariq Ali’s Book “The Leopard and the Fox- a Pakistani Tragedy” sheds light on role of Thatcher government and BBC in extending a lifeline to Brutal Dictator General Zia [...]
Six Rover Scouts died on the spot and over 25 other Scouts of the Pakistan Boy Scouts Association were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up during a religious gathering in Karachi, Pakistan on 28th December 2009.
Akmal Shaikh’s journey from a minicab business in north London to death row in a remote part of north-west China is a labyrinthine tale involving eastern European gangsters, harebrained business schemes and a dream of international pop stardom.
It began in Kentish Town, north London, where Shaikh lived with his British wife and children. The couple [...]
My wife Zahra and I recently decided to move back to Pakistan. Many friends in London seem puzzled by our decision. That is understandable. Pakistan plays a recurring role as villain in the horror sub-industry within the news business. It is, we are constantly told, a place where car bombs go off in crowded markets, [...]
This Lal Masjid, actually a converted old Victorian church, built (originally) in Yorkshire stone is just like the other inconspicuous buildings lining the Leeds road Bradford moor, Bradistan an area famous for posh Pakistani curry restaurants competing with wilmslow road Manchester for the title of Curry Capital of the North of England.
But I am talking [...]
So this my gift, a poem, to you Mr. President and
all the casualties of
women, men, children, animals
and the house mice, you are going to drop bomb at.
Ich bin ein Tamil and Pustun. We are all Tamil and Pushtun today, back in 1960s American President J.F Kennedy chanted for the freedom of Berliners. We should show our humanitarian solidarity with the civilian victims of terrorism in Tamil and Pushtun areas.
The Top news story, across the global media, is the human suffering resulting [...]
