Archive of South Asia Citizens Wire

  • Pilgrimage to nowhere: A year on from Benazir Bhutto’s assassination

    by Fatima Bhutto, 12 January 2009

    [New Statesman >http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2009/01/benazir-bhutto-pakistan-legacy]
    A year on from Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, Fatima Bhutto visits the family mausoleum and reflects on the poisonous legacy of her late aunt, a woman "without principles"
    “A Disney version of the Taj Mahal”: devotees of Benazir arrive at the remodelled Bhutto family mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bux, Sind Province
    The old Bhutto mazaar, or graveyard, is in a small town called Garhi Khuda Bux. It is (…)

  • And Then They Came For Me

    by Lasantha Wickrematunge, 12 January 2009

    In the death of the Sunday Leader editor, Lasantha Wickrematunge , Sri Lanka lost a very courageous and visionary journalist who strived to expose corruption, human rights abuses and supported the rights of minorities in the face of great personal danger. He had obviously anticipated his own demise and the manner of it as is evident from his last editorial.

  • It is Darwin Time: Will We Accept It?

    by Q. Isa Daudpota , 12 January 2009

    The failure of Pakistan’s Natural History Museum to recognize Darwin’s Theory of Evolution as fundamental to Biology and Medical Sciences needs to be corrected. Public awareness through TV programs is essential in this year of Darwin.

  • Gaza and India: A view from Pakistan

    by Faheem Hussain, 11 January 2009

    counterpunch.org
    The horror and the massacres continue in Gaza. The scenes of carnage being broadcast by Al-Jazeera are unbearably painful. Police stations, schools, universities, ministries, houses, crowded mosques, ambulances, paramedics, etc. were and are being targeted by the Israeli air force and now ground troops have entered to “finish the job” as the Israelis call it. Hundreds of innocents have been killed and thousands injured and there seems to be no end in sight. This is not a (…)

  • What Partition did to her mother and her family

    11 January 2009

    Radio Netherlands International
    The legacy of separation
    by Dheera Sujan
    09-01-2009
    Sarla Sujan was born into a Hindu family in the city of Hyderabad Sindh in 1931. She’d always taken it for granted that she was Indian - yet suddenly, on the stroke of midnight in August 1947, the Muslim state of Pakistan was created - and she became Pakistani overnight.
    In the chaos following Partition, more than ten million people migrated over the new border. In some places, Partition was (…)

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