Journeys to Democracy

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• Pakistan Elections: Democracy, Dichotomies, and Shades of Grey

          
  16 May, by beenasarwar
  Here’s the piece I wrote for the Economic and Political Weekly, India, published on the web today, copied below with minor changes, photos and added links. The recent elections in Pakistan show that the country is finally on the right track notwithstanding the rigging, the violence and the (...)

• Pawns and prisoners of manufactured hatred

    
  9 May, by beenasarwar
  Tragically, Sanaullah, the Pakistani prisoner whom a fellow inmate had attacked in prison in Jammu in Indian administered Kashmir on May 3, finally succumbed to his injuries on May 9. The attack took place on the day of the funeral of Sarabjit Singh, the high profile Indian prisoner who died on (...)

• Boston bombings: A Pakistani perspective and a Cambridge cabbie

   
  9 May, by beenasarwar
  “You know, I think the Chinese student who was killed, I took her there,” said the cab driver. It was a few days after the Boston Marathon bombings of April 15, and after the police had chased the perpetrators, killing one and capturing the other. Everyone was still talking about the unfortunate (...)

• Parveen Rehman. Keep the Torch Alight

       
  9 April, by beenasarwar
  The cold-blooded murder of Parveen Rehman on March 13 this year came as no great surprise – in the lawless concrete jungle that is Karachi, one always expects the worst. That doesn’t mitigate the shock and immense grief at the gunning down of the gentlest of human beings, someone who had devoted (...)

• Pakistan Elections: protest unethical and undemocratic electoral process

    
  8 April, by beenasarwar
  Pakistanis are vocally protesting the trend of over-zealous Returning Officers knocking down prospective electoral candidates like nine pins on “moral” and “religious” grounds related to Articles 62 and 63 inserted into the Constitution of Pakistan by the military dictator Gen. Ziaul Haq. Recently, (...)

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