You say faux pas, Sudan says plot against Islam.
A British school teacher was tried and charged today for allowing her 6 and 7 year old pupils at Unity High to vote the classroom teddy bear be named Mohammad. She could have been subject to 20 lashes, but escaped with 15 days in Omdurman women’s prison […]
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Afghanistan Gambles on Cannabis Crop
Posted in drugs, Afghanistan on Nov 27th, 2007
During the 2002 Super Bowl, TheAntiDrug (a White House sponsored campaign) depicted American drug users as knowing instruments of terror. They were quoted saying, “I helped a bomber get a fake passport… All the kids do it,” and other far-fetched and sharply criticized farces.
One of the specific counterpoints was that they drew and unfounded link […]
Cartoon: Russistan
Posted in News on Nov 26th, 2007
Mike Luckovich in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (published on Nov. 21).
Insurgent or just inconvient?
Posted in Free Speech on Nov 20th, 2007
Bilal Hussein, a renown and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer with the AP, has been detained by U.S. authorities in Iraq since Apr. 2006. They suggest that the Fallujah-native’s unique access to terrorists and his inaction in fighting them makes him suspect. His defenders maintain that it is his compassion for all Iraqis, whom he has sheltered […]
Medical tourism is on the rise. Housewives are drinking Tahitian Noni juice, America’s elderly are jumping the border into Canada for hip replacements, and Michael Moore has firemen and women flooding his inbox with questions about when the next boat is leaving for Cuba.
Last week, UK-based The Evening Standard reported of an untold form of […]
Mohammedmian Soomro is expected to swear in tomorrow as Pakistan’s interim PM, along with other newly appointed cabinet officials. The signal is supposed to mark a restoration to order and a concession by Musharraf that puts the country one step closer to parliamentary elections.
But after the stunts of the past few weeks, its hard not […]
Benazir Bhutto, or BB as she’s know in Pakistani media, planned to march across the country. The government deemed it illegal, and said they’ll do what they need to stop it. BB refused to restart negotiations with General Musharraf and decided to protest in Rawalpindi. They put her on house arrest.
And simultaneously, the brazen heads […]
Dismay Spreads Beyond Pakistan
Posted in News on Nov 7th, 2007
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By the time I got there, the protest wasn’t much more than a sparse gathering on the corner of Grove and Van Ness. A child in pink hid behind her mother […]
There are, by whatever strokes of geopolitical fortune, places where political markers place very little ink on every-day life.
And then there is Pakistan. Where one signature?inked in the obscured hours on Saturday night by a military man who?s been ?rescuing? his country for 8 years?at once dissolved the high courts, repealed Gutenberg?s contributions to Pakistani […]
You may not have seen it, but its out there. Just in case you wanted to check. To confirm your suspicions that not all Pakistanis are terrorists.
After the jump is a music video that came from the collaboration of 8 pop singers in Pakistan who want to clarify? what our Western eyes might be seeing, […]
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