Pakistan’s prime minister has escaped an attempt on his life.
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Fatemeh
A Pakistani senator defends the honor-killing of five women: “these are our norms which should not be highlighted negatively.”
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thabet
Ali Eteraz says ‘the Taliban is trying to destroy Pakistan’. And Jihadica has a couple of posts on the “Pakistani Taliban” (1, 2).
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Indian police arrest key leaders in Kashmir.
The Economist has some more background.
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Pakistan bans the Taliban as its coalition government falls apart. The reported quote from one the Taliban spokesman is instructive:
“We are slaves to no one.”
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aasem
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An interview with Ahmed Rashid.
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A leading Pakistani pro-democracy activist has accused a senior British diplomat of undermining his country’s rule of law.
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Pervez Musharraf resigns as president of Pakistan.
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thabet
At the end of 2007, Radio 4’s Robin Lustig predicted that we would hear a lot more about Pakistan in 2008. So far he has been right. And it may not just be the US which puts the pressure on Pakistan; China may have something to say too.
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Suspected ‘Suspected’ pro-Taleban militants have burnt down three more girls’ high schools in the Swat valley of north-west Pakistan, officials say.
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Pakistan’s ruling coalition threatens to impeach Pervez Musharraf.
The US says, “Sayonara, Pervez!”
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Pakistan’s “rat people” forced to beg on the streets.
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Prostitution in the Islamic nation of Pakistan, once relegated to dark alleys and small red-light districts, is now seeping into many neighborhoods of country’s urban centers.
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The Times reports that US troops are gathering close to the Afghan-Pakistan border ready for a possible attack on al-Qaeda and Taleban bases in the lawless North Waziristan tribal belt in Pakistan.
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The Taliban say they have set up permanent Islamic courts in Pakistan’s north-western Mohmand tribal area.
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muse
Few links about Muslim women in art. I can’t promise bikini shots in my links, but they’re interesting nonetheless.
Pakistani director Mehreen Jabar’s film Ramchand Pakistani is the only Pakistani movie featured in NY’s Tribeca Film Festival. (I’m excited to see Pakistani movies moving past depictions of rotund women gyrating their hips - not that there’s anything wrong with that…)
Clinton’s library in Arkansas is hosting an art show containing artwork by women from the Muslim world. It is called, what else, Breaking the Veil.
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Pakistani Harvard student Samad Khurram makes waves by refusing academic award from US Ambassador.
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koonj
Please welcome Lahore Nama. This young blog, brainchild of the talented and thoughtful Raza Rumi and his contributors examine the fascinating city of Lahore - historically, religiously, anthropologically, critically and aesthetically.
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Pakistan’s popular Geo TV news channel, which transmits from Dubai, says the United Arab Emirates has asked it to drop two talk shows.
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Pakistan’s military has condemned an air strike by Afghanistan-based US forces that killed 11 of its troops as a “cowardly attack”.
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NPR’s The Urban Frontier: Karachi series was an excellent, detailed look at the giant port city. My personal favorite episode was the profile on Amber Alibhai, an activist fighting against corrupt developers. When goons phoned up her family with death threats, she responded by using her contacts to have the phone traced - and called back:
“And then I rang up those people and I said, ‘Listen, I’m fed up of this cat-and-mouse game. Stop threatening. You really want to kill me? I’m standing on the road outside my house with my children and you come and kill us and you get it over with.’ Because we were fed up of it.
Aunty, you’re my hero.
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muse
Pakistani men getting a mani/pedi? Not something you hear about everyday. (Bravo LA Times, for your exemplary journalism).
Not content with raiding their wives’ cosmetics cases, Pakistani men are spending more on beauty products of their own, shopkeepers say. “They buy everything — hair products, skin products — and they want to talk and talk and talk about which one is the best,” pharmacist Riaz Assam said. “They take it all very seriously.”
Edit: My (Pakistani) husband just asked me to shoot him if he ever goes to the salon for anything other than a haircut. Ha.
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Ahmed Rashid, author of the popular Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, has a new book out this month: Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.
Ali Eteraz has reviewed Descent into Chaos for Jewcy.com.
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Pakistan’s economic woes worsen. Does it ever get better?
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thabet
Baitullah Mehsud, who heads the loose grouping of militants known as the Pakistan Taleban, has given a rare press conference to invited journalists. They included the BBC’s Syed Shoaib Hasan.
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Lawrence of Arabia
Pakistan seems to have said “No, thanks!” to the appointment of the former commander of Gitmo to the top U.S. military post in Pakistan. And one has to ask, what was the Pentagon thinking?
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