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Articles with tag: activist

A Profile In Courage

Rakesh Mani   Apr 22, 2007   interacts: 6

A recipient of the Sitara-i-Imtiaz Award in Pakistan and the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious human rights honour, she declined an offered post as the first female judge on the Pakistan Supreme Court, stating she thought she could effe

Get off her back…

Farzana Versey   Sep 14, 2005   interacts: 441

We elect leaders; it is our job to tell them how they must run this country, to ask inconvenient questions. Arundhati Roy has done this effectively. Use of hyperbole and rhetoric may get the message across. It does not mean they are replacing dedication.

To Saneeya Hussain (August 13, 1954-April 20, 2005)

Beena Sarwar   May 1, 2005   interacts: 21

There are tears at your untimely departure, but no, we’re not just sitting about mourning gloomily. Our grief runs deep, but when we meet and share your memories, there is also laughter, especially as we recall yours.

Of Rites and Rights: An Interview with Asma Jahangir

Anniqua Rana   Sep 23, 2003   interacts: 164

'Vajpayee took the effort to come to Lahore and in some ways it was not such a good experience with the army turning their back on him and Jamaat Islami going and washing Minare Pakistan after he left.'

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