Journeys to Democracy

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• Pakistani Women Hit Hurdles in Medical Profession

      
  9 March, by beenasarwar
  My report for Inter Press Service, published on March 8, 2014 BOSTON, United States, Mar 8 2014 (IPS) - On one of her many visits to Pakistan recently, Sarah Peck, director of the US-Pakistan Women’s Council, spent some time talking to young women medical students in Pakistan. She was struck by (...)

• South Asian University response to question re: students from Pakistan

  
  5 March, by beenasarwar
  Application deadline for #SouthAsianUniversity fast approaching http://t.co/431QIXbmfD @SouthAsianUni #Delhi #SAARC — beena sarwar (@beenasarwar) March 5, 2014 Thanks South Asian University for the prompt response to my question about Pakistani students raised in my last blog post. See tweets: (...)

• Pakistan/India: One history, two narratives

       
  5 March, by beenasarwar
  My recent piece for The News, Pakistan and Hard News, India One history, two narratives Beena Sarwar How does a math student turned tech entrepreneur get involved in putting together a history book for children in India and Pakistan – a book that juxtaposes and highlights two conflicting (...)

• The nightmare must end – my op-ed in Dawn, 2009

        
  26 February, by beenasarwar
  Those who justify the Taliban uprising in Pakistan as an anti-imperialist movement forget that since the Taliban first swept into Afghanistan in 1996 (with the blessings of the Pakistani establishment), they have been a threat to women, pluralism and democracy in the region. Their oppressive (...)

• A migrant’s tragedy and a heartwarming response

     
  25 February, by beenasarwar
  Some days ago, a woman died in a fire in Cambridge, MA. The media initially reported that she was in her mid-30s, but within hours, the local Pakistani and Indian community was abuzz with the news that she was a Pakistani, in her 50s. They identified her as Farzana Khan, who lived completely (...)

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