Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Pakistan: Do school texts fuel bias?

    by Issam Ahmed, 21 January 2009

    Pakistan: The curriculum, critics charge, promotes revisionist views and intolerance.

  • India - Pakistan: Civil Society Mounts Peace Offensive

    by Rita Manchanda, 21 January 2009

    Inter Press Service
    New Delhi, Jan 20 (IPS) - A visit to India by a delegation of civil society activists from Pakistan as part of a ‘peace offensive’ is expected to help keep the two South Asian neighbours from going to war over the Nov. 26-29 terror attacks on Mumbai city.
    The Jan. 21-23 high profile ‘track two’ visit hopes to woo Indian political leaders, reason with hawkish security experts and appeal for cross border solidarity and, at a people-to-people level, make the point that (…)

  • Petition Against continuing violence in Swat and Taliban’s closure of girls’ schools

    by sacw.net, 21 January 2009

    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/airra1/index.html
    Please Rise to the Occasion & Raise Your Voice
    The petition by Aryana Institute for Regional Research & Advocacy www.airra.org
    Militants in Swat have threatened to blow up all female schools if they are not closed by January 15, 2009 which will plunge 119248 girl students into the darkness of ignorance and render 3425 women teachers jobless. There has also been slaughtering, beheadings and extortion in the name of Islam in (…)

  • Bangladesh: Unfinished Justice for the crimes of 1971

    by Fayazuddin Ahmad, 20 January 2009

    The Daily Star
    The Bangladesh Collaborators’ (Special Tribunal) Order was enacted by the Parliament in 1972 (President’s Order No. VIII, 1972) to hold trials of those accused of collaboration with the Pakistan army. This was followed by the adoption of International Crimes (Tribunal) Act of 1973 (Act No. XIX of 1973) to “provide for the detention, prosecution and punishment of persons for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and other crimes under international law”.
    Its (…)

  • If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Ask the peace caravan

    by Jawed Naqvi, 19 January 2009

    Dawn
    It’s curious that while millions of Indians have to produce a dozen proofs to get a passport or a driving licence, and brace the ordeal of getting elusive police certificates, gazetted officers’ signatures and the neighbourhood politician’s goodwill, Pakistanis who are caught on the wrong side of law in India are readily identified by the wrapper of the chewing gum found in their pockets, or a matchbox made in Karachi, or a cigarette packet from Lahore.
    There is of course the (…)

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