WASHINGTON, DC: There's a reason they say that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Eventually, someone throws a few rocks your way. And you suddenly find yourself surrounded by shards of broken glass, wondering what hit you. The (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: Scenes of rejoicing in Washington and New York accompanied the news that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed by US special forces on Sunday. But in Pakistan, many remained glued to their television sets, wondering what (...)
KARACHI/WASHINGTON, DC: A week after the recent WikiLeaks disclosures, two local non-profit organizations held a seminar in Karachi called, “Freedom of Information: Access to Information, Using Freedom of Information for Advocacy”. Participants in (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: While Pakistan grapples with the worst recorded flooding of the Indus River Delta, the country's financial capital, Karachi, is on the brink of what is being described as a civil war. A sprawling metropolis of 18 million people, (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: While Pakistan grapples with the worst recorded flooding of the Indus River Delta, the country's financial capital, Karachi, is on the brink of what is being described as a civil war. A sprawling metropolis of 18 million people, (...)
KARACHI, Pakistan: As the Pakistani media has become more influential, government efforts to curtail it have become more creative. In early July, the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting proposed a new media code of conduct. The (...)
KARACHI, Pakistan: As the Pakistani media has become more influential, government efforts to curtail it have become more creative. In early July, the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Broadcasting proposed a new media code of conduct. The (...)
KARACHI, Pakistan: Sadly, the recent violence against the Ahmadi community, which left 80 worshippers dead at an Ahmadi mosque in Lahore, is not a new phenomenon. Religious minorities in Pakistan – particularly Ahmadis, Christians, Shi'ites and (...)
KARACHI, Pakistan: Sadly, the recent violence against the Ahmadi community, which left 80 worshippers dead at an Ahmadi mosque in Lahore, is not a new phenomenon. Religious minorities in Pakistan — particularly Ahmadis, Christians, Shia and Hindus — (...)
KARACHI, Pakistan: As soon as I heard that gunmen had attacked two Ahmadi houses of worship in Lahore on 27 May, I posted a despairing comment on my Facebook page, condemning the violence and wondering out loud why we, as a nation, had let it come (...)
KARACHI, Pakistan: As soon as I heard that gunmen had attacked two Ahmadi houses of worship in Lahore on 27 May, I posted a despairing comment on my Facebook page, condemning the violence and wondering out loud why we, as a nation, had let it come (...)
KARACHI, Pakistan: Gathered around a table with Karachi-based bloggers one evening last week, Farah Pandith, the US Special Representative to Muslim Communities, asked, “Can’t a person do more than one thing at a time?â€
The question was (...)