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Okara Military Farms... HRW Report compiled by Danny
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Pakistan army has often been alleged of oppression
against its own people. Pakistan Army faces today;
the allegations of cruelity and injustice in East Pakistan,
Allegations of violation of human rights in Karachi during the
operation in 90s, creating chaos by operating in Wana and
crushing the poor farmers movement in Okara.
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Jeet lo Dil...by Rehana Sheikh
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After a gap of over fourteen years, Indian cricket team is finally
here to play on Pakistani soil. Hopes are high on both sides of
the border with film stars taking the lead in mending ties with
the neighbours. PM Vajpayee, himself a big cricket fan, endorsed
his team asking them to win hearts of Pakistanis...
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To vote or not to vote?...by Rehana Sheikh
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"Elections again already?" "Dont these guys ever give up?"
"Ahh atlast another holiday" "Could I spend a day at mom's
on election day?" "finally I could checkout that new movie"...
Just a few of the views among people waiting desperately for the election..
..or the day-off rather.
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| I remember that day...by Rehana Sheikh
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One year has passed since hijacked airplanes hit
the World Trade Center in NY and the Pentagon in Washington. The
Editor of humPakistan Online, Rehana Sheikh shares her memories
of the 11th of September 2001.
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| 55 years of freedom?...by Rehana Sheikh
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We celebrate our freedom.. attend some seminars,
make a speech, meet friends, have dinner, all because we are free...
But sometimes I fail to understand the very concept of Freedom.
Some people around make one think do they even share our ideas
of freedom, even after over half a century?
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| Women Sky Marshals for PIA...by Aamir Ashraf
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Twenty-four-year-old Sumra Niazi had always dreamed
of seeing the world, but not as an undercover air commando
trained to kill with her bare hands.
Three months ago she was selected for training as one of
Pakistan's first female sky marshals.
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| Declining sales and squeezing margins...by Nasir Jamal
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Go to any market or a department store, you'd find it
brimming with people. Yet the retailers complain of declining
sales and squeezing margins. In bazaars that are catering to the
demands of the middle classes the situation is worse.
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| All dressed up and nowhere to go...by Dilawar Hussain
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As one drives along I.I. Chundrigar Road in Karachi -
the Wall Street of Pakistan - it is difficult to miss the sight
of some shutters pulled down, where once used to be banks and
business offices. A few of those disappeared on mergers, others
on the back of scams and still others drowning under competition
and economic recession.
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| Citizenship Act violates women's rights...by Niaz A. Kakakhel
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After browsing through the Citizenship Act 1951 of Pakistan
the inescapable conclusion one draws is that 'man is the
fulcrum' of and 'woman an exclusion' in the law governing
citizenship in Pakistan.
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| It’ll be one more Partition...by Jyoti Punwani
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Three months ago, Mansur Darvesh’s household was abuzz
with his sister’s forthcoming visit. Together the families made
plans for a 25-strong baraat from here to Karachi for a
favourite niece’s wedding in February. Now, what’s staring them
in the face is a quiet affair in Dubai, with a few elders from
both sides attending.
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| Where education meant Jihad...by Salman Masood
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Outside a small patchy, dusty road twisted and turned
through green rice fields, curved through a cluster of brown
bricked small houses and cattle, crossed a railway line and many
people on bicycles and on foot under a dim blue December sky
towards Markaz-e-Dawat-ul-Irshad, an educational complex of
Lashkar-e-Taiba in the outskirts of Muridke, a small town 32
miles south of Lahore.
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| Christmas Cognition...by Anwar Abbas
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Christmas approaches once again, signifying not merely
the end of another year, but what has been for 20 centuries, a
time of joy and festivities and thinking of the Prince of Peace.
Not just for the Christians but for many other peace-loving
people all over the globe. For the Pakistanis, Dec 25 each year
is an occasion for celebration, twice over.
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| Plight of refugees living in stinking tent city...by Tim Meo
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Jalozai is Pakistan's most notorious refugee camp.
Just a few months ago, aid workers were calling it the worst in
the world. Only the desperate end up in the Jalozai refugee
camp, a stinking makeshift tent city for the displaced and
dispossessed in a dried up river bed outside Peshawar.
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| Hospitals not ready for bio-terror attacks
...by Naufil Hasan
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The mystery of the anthrax case at the office of
Daily Jang continues. While the powder in the envelope
reportedly tested positive for anthrax strain, the staff member
who is said to have opened the envelope and got exposed to the
strain through inhalation is healthy, going about his daily chores.
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| A Quiet City simmering with Confusion
...by Salman Masood
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The dull blue sky, dimly lit by the sunlight that is
choked by the dust clouds, is witnessing the slow incursion of
autumn in this city surrounded by the Margalla hills. The war
clouds that are hovering around Afghanistan have cast their grim
shadows over the lives and thoughts of people in this city..
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| Terrorism and Minorities in America
...by Mahbubul Karim
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Before last week’s horrendous acts in the USA,
many of us never thought we would be going through this time of
insecurity and feelings of humiliation in our lives. But it is
here, whether we had foreseen it or not.
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| The notorious Silent Majority
...by Rehana Sheikh
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"President Musharraf calls it Pakistan's silent majority...
for the common man, staying silent is a part of life."
The so-called 'Silent Majority' of Pakistan proved its point
on the National Solidarity day that it wishes to remain silent
in all circumstances whatsoever.
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| Beneath the veil
...by Saira Shah
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Saira Shah traveled to Afghanistan to see the effects
of the Taliban's rule on her father's homeland.
She discovered public executions, allegations of human rights
violations like massacres and torture, and a place where women
are forced to beg because they are prevented from working.
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| NOSTRADAMUS -The Doomsday Prophet
...by Daniel Rosario
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"The third big war will begin when the city is burning..."
A hoax, yes. But, ever noticed how whenever there's trouble, a
certain sixteenth century French alchemist and astrologer called
Nostradamus has always been the undisputed celebrity of the moment?
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| Hooliganism -National Pride
...by Rehana Sheikh
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Come the 14th of August and National Pride is at its peak
but so is Hooliganism on the streets as hordes of wild youth
clad in jeans 'n t-shirts with national flags wrapped over their
heads take over the Independence Day celebrations in a totally
absurd fashion.
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| Old is Gold
...by Rehana Sheikh
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"Those were the days", he says,"we lived in a Rs10
per month 2 bed house and our monthly expenditure was not more
than another 5 Rupees. Today I cant even buy an apple worth 5
Rupees. Its a shame when I realise that we made no progress in
all these years while they (League leaders) lured us back in '47
towards a better future and a better life..."
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| Apathy of a System
...by Rehana Sheikh
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Wet and shivering, Solat Bibi sits on a soaked
charpai (local bed) with two kids sleeping by her side. A few
belongings the family has managed to save are lying around them.
They are just one of the many families in similar conditions
lying through out the neighbouhood.
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| A Vendor's Tale
...by Rehana Sheikh
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His name is Allah Ditta, a 45 years old man with
four children: two sons and two duaghters. He lives with his
mother, wife and kids in a jhonpri (shack) near Gilani Station,
Karachi.They have no electricity, gas or water as one could
imagine, they cook food by burning wood and have to steal water
from someone else's well.
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