Sui Incident: A PR Disaster
Riffat Jahan Mar 16, 2005 interacts: 37Officers operating in this institutional milieu can go to any length - sometimes on the orders of their chiefs, sometimes responding to their own lust.
A Rapist-Friendly System
Nauman Nisar Mar 7, 2005 interacts: 38The verdict is out. Five of the six men received a non-guilty verdict and for one the death sentence was reduced to life imprisonment.
flying kites, playing flutes
Temporal Feb 6, 2005 interacts: 17
wine and tharra flowing unabashed
right beneath the minaret’s shadow
who deludes whom is for whom to wonder
A Call for Justice
Abrar Akbar Feb 1, 2005 interacts: 8More than four weeks have passed since the print media first reported about a gang-rape of a lady doctor, allegedly by military personnel, at Sui.
Black Sheep of Layari
Dean Ali Jan 24, 2005 interacts: 6The following story is about the drug dealers and negative elements of Lyari, original theme of which is provided by a native Baloch dweller of
Flouting International Laws-What is Dubyas Rationale?
B Waraich Jan 20, 2005 interacts: 54There were two articles in the news today. “Charles Graner sentenced to 10 years for the abuse of the Abu Ghraib prisoners.” The second was
Gang-rape in Sui
Malik Imran Jan 20, 2005 interacts: 47Outrage is hardly the word, this is just dreadful. So far there are no reports accusing Americans of raping, let alone gang-raping, Iraqi women.
The “D” Word
Aisha Farooqui Jan 18, 2005 interacts: 235I sometimes joked that had we had blackened eyes and bruised bodies as proofs of torture it would have been easy to sell our “D”
’NO’ to Ostentatious Displays and Wasteful Expenses
Salil Kader Dec 17, 2004 interacts: 43Supreme Court had banned serving of meals at hotels, clubs and marriage halls for marriage ceremonies. The Court, in its order, specified that ‘no meals
The Hazardous Mix: A Peculiar Act and the Perilous Energy
Udayakumar Dec 3, 2004 interacts: 2India's Atomic Energy Act 1962 - its intent and the reality
Jirga injustice
Beena Sarwar Nov 15, 2004 interacts: 17From an informal body meant to settle small claims, the ‘jirga’ in Pakistan has been allowed to emerge as a powerful extra-judicial force protecting the
Is Islam Anti-Semitic?
Gibran Bham Oct 13, 2004 interacts: 85To work towards peace requires an acceptance of criticism from both sides. Unfortunately, the scars on the psyche of the Jews have not healed, and
The Dream of a Crime-Free Society
Ali Hasan Cemendtaur Sep 17, 2004 interacts: 5He seemed agonized. I asked him what was wrong. He had called his folks in Karachi and learnt about a robbery next door to where
The Price of Love
Beena Sarwar Sep 15, 2004 interacts: 17Hameed may not find it so easy to dispose of his daughter, who has refused to accept her fate lying down; before being locked up,
International Law: Applicability and Real Politik in the Middle East
Nisreen Zain Jul 19, 2004 interacts: 72For the first time since 1948, an Israeli prime minister or government elect has publicly stated what the Palestinians have been crying out for years
The Mullah and the Munir Report
Yasser Latif Hamdani Jul 11, 2004 interacts: 178Never again did any judicial officer in Pakistan speak his or her mind so clearly and so eloquently.
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