Entries Tagged as ‘pakistan’

January 2, 2008

More on Pakistan

One of the emails that I posted in my last entry was from my friend, Sheena Hadi, in Pakistan. She’s quoted below in today’s New York Times article. (I shortened Sheena’s name to S but since the girl is hot in the international press, I suppose I can reveal who she is).

Sheena was [...]

December 30, 2007

News from pakistan…

Dear S,
Thank you so much for your email and for thinking of us. This is probably one of the worst things that could ever have happened to Pakistan.  Regardless of whether one agreed or disagreed with her politics, this is absolutely awful. Everyone in Aahung is safe, and everyone eventually made it home or to [...]

December 27, 2007

No one should die like this

I’m not writing anything here that you aren’t going to hear somewhere else, but I have to write it. Pakistan has been on my mind a lot between convos with friends and activists that live there and all the craziness in the news. We know that Musharaf is gonna steal these elections, but damn, was [...]

November 7, 2007

Pakistan: Musharaf is losing his marbles…

I got this email today from my friend, Rahal Saeed, at Aahung. I have worked with Asma Jahangir but have yet to meet the fabulous woman. Here is an inside account of what’s happening with detentions of human rights activists…

Subject: FROM ASMA JAHANGIR

Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 10:56:39 +0500

Dear Friends,

The situation in [...]