Posted in TV, video, cartoon, Pakistan, Free Speech on Feb 24th, 2008
It was just months ago that Pakistan’s emergency government shut down outlets of traditional media — TV channels, newspapers, magazines, but only few internet resources — in hopes of controlling a brewing public opinion that the government needed to be checked. In a more recent crack down, they appear to have gotten the memo about […]
In the days after 9/11, we Americans huddled together and told one another that if we give up on everyday life — and the soy mocha frappuccino lattes that get us through them — then the terrorists win. We had to go through the motions. It felt unnatural at first. But the mind is plastic.
After […]
Mohammedmian Soomro is expected to swear in tomorrow as Pakistan’s interim PM, along with other newly appointed cabinet officials. The signal is supposed to mark a restoration to order and a concession by Musharraf that puts the country one step closer to parliamentary elections.
But after the stunts of the past few weeks, its hard not […]
Benazir Bhutto, or BB as she’s know in Pakistani media, planned to march across the country. The government deemed it illegal, and said they’ll do what they need to stop it. BB refused to restart negotiations with General Musharraf and decided to protest in Rawalpindi. They put her on house arrest.
And simultaneously, the brazen heads […]
There are, by whatever strokes of geopolitical fortune, places where political markers place very little ink on every-day life.
And then there is Pakistan. Where one signature?inked in the obscured hours on Saturday night by a military man who?s been ?rescuing? his country for 8 years?at once dissolved the high courts, repealed Gutenberg?s contributions to Pakistani […]
You may not have seen it, but its out there. Just in case you wanted to check. To confirm your suspicions that not all Pakistanis are terrorists.
After the jump is a music video that came from the collaboration of 8 pop singers in Pakistan who want to clarify? what our Western eyes might be seeing, […]
Posted in Pakistan on Sep 8th, 2007
When looking down the list of Pakistan?s GDP and its major exports, soccer balls may very well not come up near the top. But nevermind, its a source of pride for the sports-hungry country. Football players and athletics manufacturers, including Nike, are happy with their output.
So much so that a South African telecommunications firm, along […]
Posted in Pakistan on Sep 5th, 2007
Apparently, ?progress is being made? in the call for elections in Pakistan. Fears of an Emergency government are a thing of the past. The 1999 coup d?etat that brought down Benazir Bhutto and crowned General Pervez Musharraf the military and political leader of Pakistan may be sprouting its first seeds of true Democracy.
Or so it […]
Pakistan’s General Pervez Musharraf is a perfect politician. And now, that’s got himself into a perfect mess. His mouth can’t find where the money is - so he’s not sure what to do with it.
Previously, years of inaction escaped his benefactors–both foreign and domestic–about as easily as $1 billion of annual U.S. aid escaped Congress […]
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