Posted in News Briefs, tagged Judiciary, Nawaz, PML-N, PPP, Swat, Violence on February 27, 2009 | 8 Comments »
[Image from the AP, PML-N supporters following a demonstration in Rawalpindi]
As the political turmoil mounts following the Sharif Supreme Court ban [see related post], several Pakistani news agencies threw in their two cents on the matter. Today’s Dawn editorial asserted:
…the PPP has opted for a dangerous path of confrontation. Nawaz Sharif, who himself is guilty [...]
Posted in News Briefs, tagged Judiciary, Nawaz, PML-N, PPP on February 25, 2009 | 41 Comments »
[PML-N supporters protest in Islamabad, AFP]
On Wednesday, Pakistan’s Supreme Court nullified last year’s election of Punjab’s chief minister, Shahbaz Sharif, and “also declined to rule on a challenge to an electoral ban on…former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, effectively maintaining a bar on him standing for election,” reported Dawn. GEO and AAJ News reported that Punjab [...]
Posted in Events, tagged Media on February 24, 2009 | 33 Comments »
So I’m happy and humbled to report that Tea Break, a network/community for Pakistani blogs, has named me their Blogger of the Month. Thanks for the support and the honor, I really really appreciate it! Here is a link to my interview with them.
Posted in Contributions, Jackie's Guest Posts, tagged Balochistan on February 23, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The violence against foreign aid workers in Pakistan, [see CHUP's related post] has garnered significant Western media attention. Jackie, an American working for a social enterprise in Karachi and CHUP’s correspondent, [see all of her past posts] commented on the recent kidnapping of John Solecki in Balochistan, [read more about his kidnapping]. Although media [...]
Posted in News Briefs, tagged Al Qaeda, FATA, NWFP, Swat, Taliban on February 23, 2009 | 12 Comments »
The NY Times.com featured a really fantastic and powerful short documentary on the issue of female education in Swat Valley. The Times’ Adam Ellick and Irfan Ashraf profiled a Pakistani girl on the last day before the Taliban shut down her school, [click on the image below to watch the video].
At one point in the [...]
Posted in Interviews, tagged Education on February 20, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Last week, CHUP reported that Ali Nawazish broke a world record when he passed 23 A-levels in subjects including pure mathematics, travel and tourism, and sociology. The 18 year old from Rawalpindi, Pakistan received 21 A grades and a B and a C, and will be a part of the Guinness Book of World Records. [...]
Posted in Op-Eds, tagged Al Qaeda, Media, Taliban, U.S. on February 19, 2009 | 23 Comments »
[Image said to be from 2006]
A friend passed along an article yesterday from the UK Times, which reported that the United States “was secretly flying unmanned drones from the Shamsi airbase in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan as early as 2006, according to two images of the base taken from Google Earth.” The pictures, first [...]
Posted in News Briefs, tagged Media, Swat, Taliban on February 18, 2009 | 30 Comments »
On Wednesday, media outlets reported that a reporter for GEO News, Mosa Khankhel, was killed in Matta Town in Swat Valley. According to GEO’s breaking news report, Khankel was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while he was on duty. However, later news reports cited GEO News journalist Hamid Mir, who said, “Mosa was not only [...]
Posted in Contributions, tagged Swat, Taliban on February 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Below, Ahsan Mirza, a student based in Toronto, Canada discusses Pakistan’s conflict in the FATA. Due to the fact that his best friend is helping IDPs in Swat Valley, the piece is a personal reflection on the current situation:
As I sit here comfortably in my Toronto apartment browsing my usual rotation of blogs, my best [...]
Posted in News Briefs, tagged Islam, Swat, Taliban on February 17, 2009 | 23 Comments »
[Residents in Mingora, Swat distribute sweets in celebration of the deal]
On Monday, Pakistan agreed to suspend military offensives and impose Islamic law in the Malakand region [which includes Swat Valley], “making a gesture it hopes will help calm the Taliban insurgency while rejecting Washington’s call for tougher measures against militants,” reported the Associated Press. According [...]
