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• 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 (...)

• Desperate Fasadis trying to change Sindhi culture

   
  31 January, by beenasarwar
  Shikarpur and other areas of Sindh have always been famous for their tolerant, syncretic Sufi culture — and sweets. Not suicide attacks. That is obviously something that cowardly Takfiri Fasadis are trying desperately to change. From kidnapping and forced conversions of Hindu girls, to attacks (...)

• Pakistanis against terrorism: global protest vigils #ReclaimYourMosque

     
  25 January, by beenasarwar
  Shehroz Hussain was a foreign student from Pakistan, a freshman at college in the USA, when Taliban or their affiliated groups shot dead his father, Dr Riaz Hussain Shah, in front of his clinic in Peshawar in January, 2013. “In August 2012, as I stood at the airport to say goodbye to my family, (...)

• India, Pakistan: Build on goodwill, not hate

   
  23 January, by beenasarwar
  I wrote this for The News on Sunday’s Jan 11, 2015 issue: Build on goodwill, not hate In the wake of escalation of tensions between India and Pakistan, people on both sides of the border continue to express solidarity through peace initiatives In an unprecedented and heart-warming gesture from (...)

• No country for Shia men!

  
  21 January, by beenasarwar
  Originally posted on The Indus Ripple: The bus is stopped. People are pulled out. Without asking any questions armed men start filtering the crowd. Almost everyone is asked to get back inside the bus but your family is left behind. You suddenly realize it is because you look different. As (...)

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