South Asia Citizens Web

Qandeel Baloch is dead. Seems like the woman had earned the ire of way too many men . . . women have better talents that merely looks . . . she has been conditioned by our patriarchal society . . . Qandeel’s honesty and defiance of patriarchal norms that actually points out how dishonourable our society really is. She was alone, powerful, influential. And she told all the haters out there that she refused to be suppressed under their patriarchal standards of morality.

We, the undersigned, condemn the murder of Qandeel Baloch by her brother, Waseem, and demand that the government put the alleged killer on trial.

Two of Kashmir’s leading newspapers said that Jammu and Kashmir police raided their office on Saturday night, seized their printed copies and arrested their employees – a clear act of choking and gagging media in crisis-hit Kashmir valley.

How does one address words to Kashmir? What do you say in a political context where all texts are sub texts, all ends dead ends?

On "World Youth Day," I pray for children and young people, the future of every and any nation, the world over. I condemn the use of unwarranted force, pellet guns, the policy of shoot to kill employed to disperse crowds in Kashmir! I condemn the glorification of the"matrydom" of our young, whose families will be devastated forever and will never know any relief! The physical and psychological incarceration of our alienated young people is part of the problem, not the solution!