Some of the more sleepy guests at an awards breakfast held in Los Angeles last week might have missed the significance at the time, because, as revelations go, it worked better in print than when it was spoken aloud. As prize-winner Jodie Foster announced to her fellow guests at the Power 100 Women in Entertainment […]
Humiliating attitude of militants
‘Taliban militants have misbehaved yesterday with females of my family in Dara Adam Khel tribal area, the car in which my family female members accompanied by a male member of the family were coming from Peshawar towards Kohat were stopped by militants for checking, female members were compelled to remove their veils and male […]
Award Winning Egyptian Reporter Banned From Posting Reports On YouTube
YouTube recently blocked an internationally acclaimed Egyptian reporter from posting clips. The video platform suspended Wael Abbas’ account because his material was supposedly too violent. They depicted police brutality and ballot casting irregularities. Abbas, a professional reporter and anti-torture activist, saw his account shut down after uploading nearly 100 files on YouTube. The reports included […]
Musharraf shuts down Geo TV
ISLAMABAD: GEO TV, Pakistan’s premier Urdu news channel, also seen round the world as the main source of news and current affairs, was shut down at 1 a.m. Pakistan time (12 midnight Dubai time) after President Pervez Musharraf put tremendous pressure to silence a media outlet which had refused to bow down to his dictates. […]
Announcement of election date, and detention of Muhtarima Benazir Bhutto
Muhtarima Benazir Bhutto is detained in her residence in Islamabad today on Friday 9-11-2007. She was bound to address a rally in historical Liaqat Bagh of Rawalpindi today, and her party arranged a rally to protest against imposition of emergency rule in Pakistan. The opinion of the Islamabad administration is that as a security […]
Short story: A visit to Kandahar
I was in Kabul when a friend invited me to Kandahar, a southern Afghanistan province and former stronghold of Taliban, to join a mushaira, a gathering of poets and intellectuals. I accepted his invitation because I, too, wanted to appreciate their good activities in that restive province. It was my long-awaited wish to visit the […]