Tag Archive for Pakistan

Elections 2013

by Masood Raja • May 9, 2013

We have created this live blog to report results and other events related to 2013 Pakistani elections. Please use THIS FORM to report latest events, results, or election irregularities in your area.

by Masood Raja • May 7, 2013

It is fascinating, and a bit embarrassing, to watch the daily drama that has now become a life for our erstwhile dictator, patriarch, general and commando leader. That once his word was law and his will was carried through the…

by Fawzia Afzal-Khan • March 24, 2013

Bridging Cultures Through Film: From the Melody Queen to the Muslim Madonna: A History of Pakistan Through its Female Singers 1947-Present This is a project about mediation in the sense of bringing cultures together; in this case by creating…

by Masood Raja • March 22, 2013

INAUGURAL ISSUE: CALL FOR PAPERS: “CITIES” The Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture is pleased to announce the launch of its new academic journal, Indus, and to invite submissions for our inaugural issue. Indus is seeking essays, research papers,…

by Juan Cole • March 11, 2013

On Sunday, Pakistani police rounded up 70 suspects in the mass arson attacks on Saturday on the Christian neighborhood of Joseph Colony on Noor Road in the Badami Bagh district. The incident has its origin in a misuse of Pakistan’s…

by Shaikh M. Ali • March 9, 2013

12:30 a.m. – A review of the movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, hunting Obama Bin Laden (Oops)! http://www.google.com.pk/imgres?imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/77/ZeroDarkThirty2012Poster.jpg/ ‘Waterboarding’ in the first two minutes just puts you off. A CIA thriller however, Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark ‘Freakin’ thirty; despite its many…

by Qaisar Abbas • March 7, 2013

All religions teach communal harmony, respect for human rights, and high moral values as their mission but at the same time they have been a major source of conflict and war throughout the human history. To George A. James, a…

by Pervez Hoodbhoy • February 24, 2013

Shahbag Square — where’s that? Abdul Kader Mullah — who’s he? A bunch of university students in Islamabad, with whom I was informally conversing yesterday, hadn’t heard of either. Of course, they knew of Tahrir Square and Afzal Guru’s recent…

by Masood Raja • February 22, 2013

This is to share the news that the website for South Asia Democracy Watch (SADeW) has now been launched and can be accessed at http://sadew.org. SADew is a Dallas-based international organization that describes itself in the following words: South Asia…