Journeys to Democracy

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• Pakistan Hazara genocide and NotreDame: Waiting for Jacinda?

     
  15 April, by beenasarwar
  Had the Hazaras who were killed in a bomb blast in Quetta died in the Notre Dame fire instead, there might be more outrage about their persecution and targeted killing in Pakistan, comments a designer friend disgusted by the apathy of Pakistan’s elites to the Hazara community’s ongoing sit-in, (...)

• Women warriors for peace and a viral Punjabi music video

    
  6 April, by beenasarwar
  There’s been so much going on that I haven’t shared any updates here for a while. On Tuesday 11 Feb., Bilawal Bhutto Zardari gave a talk on Pakistan and the Welfare State at Harvard that I reported on: “We can’t say we’re too poor to look after our people”, published in The News on Sunday, 17 (...)

• India, Pakistan #SayNoToWar: Global StandOut for Peace in South Asia

     
  1 March, by beenasarwar
  As tensions between India and Pakistan continue to keep the region hostage people everywhere are stepping up to urge the governments to resolve all issues through dialogue. They include: An upcoming Global StandOut For Peace in South Asia in over 17 cities around the world Sunday — updates on (...)

• Asma Jahangir: A meaningful life, an inspiring legacy

        
  10 February, by beenasarwar
  I wrote this piece for a web dossier produced by Heinrich Boell Foundation for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights‘ 70th anniversary 2018 – Asma Jahangir – ein bedeutungsvolles Leben, ein inspirierendes Erbe. Sharing now, a year after Asma Jahangir has passed on. This piece doesn’t include (...)

• Celebrating Fahmida Riaz in Delhi

       
  6 February, by beenasarwar
  Post updated to add the programme just received from Delhi; gratified that it includes the poem I posted here earlier, “Palwashe Muskurao”. Great to know that friends in Delhi are organising this wonderful event to commemorate the great poet Fahmida Riaz – Fahmida Khala to me, she called my father (...)

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