Articles with tag: protest
Save Pakistan!
Usama Khilji Mar 14, 2009 interacts: 186Skeptics will say that there is no future left for Pakistan. They are wrong. Pakistan certainly has a future; it is every single one of us. It is you, and it is me.
Democracy, Pakistan Style
Chad Haines Mar 17, 2009 interacts: 13Unlike 1990s, when demonstrations were carried out by PPP or PML hired thugs, today’s rallies are full of people, Pakistani citizens demanding accountability and full restoration of democracy.
Long March Poem
kashkin dabruski Mar 13, 2009 interacts: 1In all these years in our memory
In all these moments in our sight
Never that rapture or passion
Never there was a moment
To unite for purpose and oppression
To break this silence, to protest
For our rights, until now
Pakistan, Can You Hear Me?
Rakesh Mani Feb 24, 2009 interacts: 374Pakistanis come out on the streets to protest against the Taliban, against violence and against the murder of their own people. And for peace and dignity and friendship with their neighbors.
Aitzaz’s Monumental Blunder
saeed qureshi Jun 15, 2008 interacts: 351There is all quiet in Pakistan after the lawyers’ long march. The struggle of more than one year was wasted away in matter of hours.
Long March
kashkin dabruski Jun 11, 2008 interacts: 43In thousands, we will march, for change
Hear you will my friends, not far away
The days of change and nights of comfort
Walk with me, as each step gathers its storm
Race to the Finish
Feroz Qutabshahi Apr 29, 2008 interacts: 77860 years ago, when Jackie Robinson, first Black Man to play in US Major League Baseball, walked onto the field, he was taunted, ridiculed, and booed, but despite all adversity, he delivered.
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.
Resist, resist, resist: ‘The gift of a crisis’
Beena Sarwar Nov 24, 2007 interacts: 197General Musharraf’s announcement of an ‘emergency’ on Nov 3 stunned many among this otherwise complacent generation -- enough to finally act upon their convictions.
Muffled Voices on Campuses
Ahsan Raza Nov 23, 2007 interacts: 2As private universities are abuzz with anti-emergency chants, students of Government College and FC College, Lahore have also adopted ways to express themselves politically.
Pakistan: Media Under Siege
Beena Sarwar Nov 23, 2007 interacts: 138Police have attacked and arrested journalists demonstrating all over the country. Over a hundred journalists offered themselves for mass arrest in Karachi on Nov 20.
Kolkata on Fire
Torsa Ghosal Nov 21, 2007 interacts: 70On 21st November the protest was more violent than any imagined in recent times in Kolkata and almost all our lives have been violently affected by it.
Pressures Mount on Pervez Musharraf
Beena Sarwar Nov 15, 2007 interacts: 11"The judges by not taking oath, the lawyers and civil society by resisting have shown the way. The media is standing by them. This is one battle the General is sure to lose"
Cholesterol Say Paak
Nadeem F Paracha Nov 8, 2007 interacts: 129I usually get my news by driving around the city. I see a look of uncertainty on the faces of the people, but no great movement.
Where's the news?
Nadeem F Paracha Oct 14, 2007 interacts: 83The so-called "movement against Musharraf" and the unfolding "democratic revolution" seems like a shrinking reality no bigger than a 26-inch TV screen.
A Nation Reborn
Shaheryar Akbar Mar 20, 2007 interacts: 71Just when I thought my people would once again silently ignore this new form of oppression, and resign themselves to a fate written by politicians and generals, they responded! They awoke! They said in one voice, “enough is enough!” I have ne
The Spirit of Pakistan is Failing
Mubashir Butt Dec 30, 2006 interacts: 33Our great General-President himself admitted in a televised interview that the federation has weakened in the recent past but did anyone question why?
Celebrity Courts and Kangaroo Justice
Farzana Versey Apr 18, 2006 interacts: 116I protest against this abuse of a cause by people like Aamir Khan, for it is gimmicky and counter-productive. News channels are behaving like nautch girls and social butterflies as the nawabs of vigilance. Page 3 justice is the latest fad
Notes from Latin America
Rezwan Bajwa Oct 14, 2005 interacts: 27A teacher of mine once said that if Intezaar Hussein were a Spaniard or an Englishman he would have been acclaimed as a phenomenon.
The State Strikes Back
Rezwan Bajwa Jun 16, 2005 interacts: 7Many expected this to take a bit of time but the State pulled a surprise this past Saturday. The Rangers moved in to occupy all PTCL installations in the country and the Army signals core moved in to take over operations so that the workers could no long
The Book is also Just a Book
Farzana Versey May 23, 2005 interacts: 349Forget about killing myself. I felt no anger, no hurt, no disgust when I read the Newsweek report regarding the ’desecration’ of the ’holy Quran’. The Quran is at various levels merely a symbol, and an individual one at that.
Graffiti
Nima Shirali Oct 21, 2004 interacts: 4Officer Don said this was a sign that the same kids who painted the school walls ended up in jail. I thought it was the silencing of free voice that led to a colorful outbreak of anger.
The Responsibility of Students
Nima Shirali Sep 16, 2004 interacts: 15I started my university studies with the expectation of elevating my level of academic understanding. I was of the notion that I would be entering a “sanctuary for free thought”. Yet, the notion of this “sanctuary” was violently br
Loudspeaker Victory
Beena Sarwar Apr 25, 2004 interacts: 15Most people suffer the loudspeaker menace in silence.
Adrift
Ali Hasan Cemendtaur Apr 22, 2004 interacts: 10The path of violence seems to be the easiest path to follow ... Only if countries could grow stronger and prosperous on murder and mayhem!
