Journeys to Democracy

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• An app for India Pakistan love, the patriotism question, and peace-mongering, regardless

        
  20 February, by beenasarwar
  My latest Personal Political post for Times of India blogs I have for some time been in touch with a young Indian software engineer turned project manager turned ‘digital nomad’, Amrit Sharma. Last week in the Aman ki Asha page that I edit published weekly in The News, Pakistan, we featured a (...)

• The ‘good’ Taliban strike again

    
  13 February, by beenasarwar
  Another attack at a Shia Imambargah in Peshawar. More loss of innocent lives as the “good” Taliban strike again. The Pakistan military machine goes after the “bad” ones, while those who kill Shias and Ahmadis are allowed to function as they further outdated foreign policy objectives re India / (...)

• #ChapelHillShooting All lives matter. “Terrorism, their’s and our’s”

     
  12 February, by beenasarwar
  #‎AllLivesMatter‬ My heart goes out to the family and friends of Deah, Yosur, and Razan, the beautiful young people whose lives were so cruelly snatched in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, ostensibly over a ‘parking dispute’. It’s not front page or breaking news in the US mainstream media the way that (...)

• It all comes together: Kashmir Day, banned organisations, and a warped narrative

     
  5 February, by beenasarwar
  It all comes together. When the Sindh government agreed on Tuesday to the demands of the citizens observing a sit-in for over 30 hours in protest against the Shikarpur blast, probably everyone forgot about Kashmir Solidarity Day. It has been observed annually in Pakistan every February 5 since (...)

• Shikarpur survivors’ update, urgent call for blood, and my article on the bombing: a deliberate attack on Sindh’s tolerant Sufi culture

    
  31 January, by beenasarwar
  UPDATE Shikarpur blast: Over 60 were buried in Shikarpur, funeral prayers attended by an over 10,000-strong crowd. 15 survivors were airlifted to hospitals in Karachi, of whom two have passed away. Urgent need for blood at the Agha Khan University Hospital laboratory in Karachi, including for (...)

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