RT @GulBukhari: “I didn’t fly out of any airport. I can’t tell you any more,” she said in an interview this week.
Gulalai escaped to the U… Tweeted 6 hours ago
RT @aa_hin: @SalmanSufi7 @beenasarwar exactly..this is my point as point as well..y do govts pay little heed towards this precarious situat… Tweeted 10 hours ago
RT @beenasarwar: Imagine your phone landline, internet, cell phone, all cut off. Not for an hour or week but over a month. Impacting medica… Tweeted 10 hours ago
RT @tajmahalfoxtrot: Meet the amateur pellet doctors of Srinagar who treat protestors too scared to go to hospital. A chilling report by @s… Tweeted 18 hours ago
RT @zofeen28: Death by #rabies on the rise! If the imported ones are in short supply,why isn’t the National Institute of Health asked to wo… Tweeted 19 hours ago
RT @gypsy_heart6: Every middle class uncle Pakistani uncle & a retired Supreme Court judge: “we need dams because most of our water flows i… Tweeted 19 hours ago
RT @sanjukta: GM.
Usually every @RahulGandhi tweet will make it to headlines along with BJP leader's most uncouth style of counter. But wh… Tweeted 19 hours ago
RT @gabeeno: Congratulations to all the people who’s representatives who’s voices were silenced and put into jail for 4 months ... more pow… Tweeted 19 hours ago
RT @Razarumi: I don’t understand a lot of #Pashto especially the grammatical structure. But the lyricism of Ghani Khan’s poetry and a good… Tweeted 19 hours ago
RT @titojourno: Javed Jabbar points out some parallels between the annexation of Hyderabad Deccan in 1948 and what is happening in Kashmir… Tweeted 19 hours ago
Over 100 Pakistani journalists, editors, columnists, media persons from across the media landscape in the country have endorsed this statement since it was initiated on 19 April, protesting against the ongoing curbs on freedom of expression in the country. It follows on the heels of astatement signed by prominent academics including Noam Chomsky. Besides the stifling of debate at university campuses, articles are being pulled off media websites in Pakistan like Babar Sattar’s oped (published in this blog) as well as three other pieces in The News on Sunday this past weekend. Others were not published to begin with, like Mobashir Zaidi’s oped in The News, and Gul Bukhari’s article on 16 April that The Nation didn’t run (published in Naya Daur). Statement and list below.
The late great poet Ahmed Faraz’s son Sarmad Faraz pays tribute to his father, by releasing a music video titled “Shayar”, which features the poet reciting his verses in his inimitable manner.
Sarmad is a musician and is best-known for being in the band Corduroy. He chose this particular poem of his late father because it espouses resilience, individuality and change.
The poem “Shayar” is part of Ahmed Faraz’s first-ever published book Tanha Tanha (1954). (Read more below).
Happy to get this email from fellow journalist and activist Naveen Naqvi:
“I am happy to report that our site, Gawaahi.com is now online. Gawaahi.com aims to archive digital stories of abuse, survival and resistance.
If you are interested in how we came about, please visit our site and read Gawaahi.com – our story.
You can find more information on our mission and team in our About page. If you see the page titled Our Partners, you will see the wonderful support we have received even before launch.”
Great going (and I love this visual by Zaina Anwar)!
