Aafia siddiqui – my thoughts

We Pakistanis love to react, and do so rather emotionally. The Aafia siddiqui case in a prime example of this.  I was among the bloggers who reacted in the most knee jerk way possible here when news of this person broke out. Nobody can deny that the way she was treated in Bagram was despicable…

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Desperate times

Everyone knows the story by now, how could they not? Its been blasted to us from every corner of our input receivers on all forms of media and has spiraled into something resembling a circus pretty quick. A well spoken man receives a large sum of money in a hotel room in England, allegedly to spot fix…

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Building a future

Much has been lost in the shape of lives, property and material well-being due to the worst floods in history. It is however, pure folly to consider each one of the IDPs as people who were always downtrodden and impoverished. Some of them were just as full of stomach and pocket as you and me…

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Help Jolie save the Pak flood victims

On several of my excursions with the Pk relief team in Sukkur, Shikarpur, Thatta and Jacobabad we have witnessed UN presence on the ground as well as UNHCR and UNDP doing credible work. Please assist them in the cause of the flood victims of Pakistan by spreading this message far and wide and take some time out to donate to your…

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Pk relief update # 2

Ever since the start of our first flood relief mission to Sukkur on 14th August 2010 the sheer number of lives that we may have impacted is truly unimaginable PkRelief has to its credit the following statistics Provided 36,800 persons with food/ration hampers, enough to last them a week Provided 25,000 people with immediate ready…

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Pk relief mission 5 report

Even though we had not gone back to shikarpur in two weeks the off roaders had kept in mind the SSGC degree college camp witnessed by us while we were on ground there. We contacted Mr Mukesh the pointman of this camp and found that the food situation there was getting desperate. This camp houses…

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