Articles with tag: human rights
Self Rule For Gilgit Baltistan
zafar sopoori Oct 27, 2009 interacts: 3The enforcement of self rule regulations in Northern Areas and other current Pakistani measures are a visible sign that Kashmir and Kashmiri people are no more in Islamabad’s policies and priorities like the previous decades.
Pakistan Crisis - Seven Problem, Seven Solutions
Khalid Sohail Aug 7, 2009 interacts: 129Pakistan is experiencing a major existential crisis. But crises are mixed blessings which can lead to regression or progression. They can cause a breakdown or become a fertile ground for a breakthrough.
Denial of Right of Self-Determination to Kashmirs
Nauman Asghar Jul 9, 2009 interacts: 162July 13th is commemorated as the day courageous Kashmiris laid their lives in a struggle against despotic and barbarous rule of Maharaja in 1931.
Greatest Challenge Before Obama
Ikramul Haq Jun 29, 2009 interacts: 64 July, 2009 is a special day for the people of United States of America. The dream that Martin Luther King visualized has attained reality.
The Guantanamo Millstone
saeed qureshi May 24, 2009Guantanamo Detention Center and its inmates have turned out to be a millstone around the neck of the United States.
Human Trafficking: The Great Commodity Exchange
Shantanu Dutta Jan 16, 2009 interacts: 3While no comprehensive study of forced and bonded labour can ever be completed, there are estimates that the trafficking “industry� touches 20 to 65 million Indians.
Swat Calls For Civil Society to Act
Zubair Torwali Jan 7, 2009 interacts: 135Government writ is a faded vision; elected councilors and Nazims are killed, women no more allowed to visit bazaars; markets are deserted, police stations vacated.
Hop Aboard the Interfaith Express
Feroz Qutabshahi Nov 19, 2008 interacts: 24Ironically, the main organizers of Interfaith conference at UN was His Majesty King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, country with the worst record in history on religious tolerance.
New US President Must Review Pakistan Policy
Beena Sarwar Nov 4, 2008 interacts: 28Tensions between the United States and Pakistan -- on the eve of the keenly-watched U.S. Presidential elections -- accompanying a visit by U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus
Celebrating 61 Years of Broken Dreams
AliHasan Cemendtaur Aug 24, 2008 interacts: 6"Missing in Pakistan", a 29-minute documentary capturing Pakistan's gross human rights violations tacitly supported by the US Government, followed by a talk by Safdar Sarki.
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful
Azra Rashid Apr 20, 2008 interacts: 1022According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, in 2007, 1205 women were reported to have been killed in the name of honor. Each year the number is doubling.
Why Me?
Awais Memon Nov 30, 2007 interacts: 1He created the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS, received the first Annual AIDS Leadership Award, and addressed the United Nations on World AIDS Day.
The Empire Strikes Again in Pakistan
Karamatullah K Ghori Nov 5, 2007 interacts: 158Throttling democracy and shackling human rights of 160 million Pakistanis, Musharraf still has the gall to liken his ignoble daylight robbery to Lincoln’s historic nobility.
The Hegemony of the “Cause”
Sangeeta Mahapatra Jul 12, 2007 interacts: 3There is something inherently flawed about the notion of placing a cause, however just and noble, before human life.
Talking Tall on Human Rights
Joe Athialy May 15, 2007 interacts: 13India talks tall on human rights in its attempt to seek re-election to the Human Rights Council.
Guddi
Tahera Sajid May 9, 2007 interacts: 17'Am I forever destined to wish better luck to others when nothing good ever comes my way?'
A Profile In Courage
Rakesh Mani Apr 22, 2007 interacts: 6A recipient of the Sitara-i-Imtiaz Award in Pakistan and the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious human rights honour, she declined an offered post as the first female judge on the Pakistan Supreme Court, stating she thought she could effe
Mirza Tahir Hussain – the ongoing tragedy
Musa Sami Oct 31, 2006 interacts: 18Prince Charles’ visit to Pakistan has brought into sharp focus the case of Mirza Tahir Hussain, a 36 year old dual British and Pakistani national who has been on and off death row for the last 18 years.
Children of a Lesser God
Ishrat Saleem Sep 27, 2006 interacts: 9Last week, a number of eunuchs holding placards gathered in front of the parliament building to protest against the excesses of their leader, Bobby Guru. They also made it a point to support the debate on the Hudood laws in parliament, thereby maki
Siachen’s Non-paper and the Non-people
M I Khan Apr 10, 2006 interacts: 31Calls for restoring road links between Baltistan and Ladakh, two perfectly peaceful places, have so far fallen on deaf ears in Delhi and Islamabad
33 Years and Counting
B Waraich Aug 26, 2005 interacts: 85The issue of 54 prisoners from the 1971 war continues to fester- when will the truth come out?
Towards a shackled society, perhaps
Omar R Quraishi Jul 20, 2005 interacts: 121The vague and ambiguous provision of “ensuring Islamic values at public places” is bound to open a Pandora’s box because it would be safe to assume that the person whom the NWFP government will appoint as ombudsman will share the MMAR
Implications of Iraqi Instability
S F Hasnat May 31, 2005 interacts: 27In the presence of 138,000 American troops, the first seventeen days of May witnessed 21 car bombings in Baghdad, while there were a total of 25 in all of the year of 2004.
Child Camel Jockeys
Reza Malik Oct 25, 2004 interacts: 26Inhumane practice of using little children as camel jockeys in the UAE and the resulting mental and physical torture they go through.
