Journeys to Democracy

Articles

• You are free to pray…But please do it at home

    
  23 April, by beenasarwar
  Please stay home… Even if the government isn’t requiring you to. Doctors in Pakistan have demanded a “strict lockdown to contain rapid spread of COVID-19” but Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan after ‘conferring’ with the ‘ulema’ has chosen to go with the latter, justifying his decision by saying that (...)

• #PakistanFightsCorona: Lending a helping hand

           
  19 April, by beenasarwar
  What to do, who’s doing it, and how to do it… A poetic fundraising resistance to despair “You can’t be lazy and not do your homework” Organisations working on the ground A poetic fundraising resistance to despair The current coronavirus pandemic, and lockdown that is essential to prevent even more (...)

• “The biggest win is to survive without becoming vindictive and not become that which we are fighting”

   
  18 April, by beenasarwar
  — Jailed chief editor’s son after accountability court in Pakistan again extends father’s physical remand “Today was disappointing for us all…. But let me tell you why I am still standing. Because our Mir Shakil ur Rahman is”, wrote Mir Ibrahim Rahman in a note to a WhatsApp group of Geo TV reporters (...)

• Remembering Mashal Khan at a time of despair, hope, and healing

    
  13 April, by beenasarwar
  “Pandemics don’t mean that we forget our national tragedies”, reminds a friend, paying tribute to Mashal Khan, the bright, questioning journalism student, lynched to death by a mob, 13 April 2017, at his university campus in Mardan on the flimsy pretext that he had committed ‘blasphemy’. A joint (...)

• V for virus, V for vendetta… In ongoing case against media boss, calls to #FreeMirShakilurRehman fall on deaf ears

             
  10 April, by beenasarwar
  It is outrageous that for nearly a month now, chief editor and owner of the country’s largest media group has been behind bars. Mir Shakilur Rahman was arrested by Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau on March 12, in connection with a 34-year old land case. Leading lawyers agree that the (...)

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