Published in Daily Times on April 14th 2014 Both Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund and Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe believe there is one way of saving Japan from the slowing growth rate because of an aging population and shrinking labor force. That...
Published in Daily Times on April 6th 2014 Appeasement knows no bounds in Pakistan. The interior ministry has released Taliban prisoners in a “good will” gesture. As we have it, there is no uproar that these mass murderers will roam the streets our children play in....
Published in Daily Times on March 30th 2014 I was at a social media event in 2011, in it an expert from the US was talking about how he follows news in Pakistan. “I just follow @razarumi and I know what is going on in Pakistan –...
Fayyaz Ul Hassan Chohan from the party of our hopes, PTI went on television on March 13th 2014 and when asked to comment on polygamy answered by telling a ludicrous joke about a man and his two wives. These women bickered. They were first threatened...
Pulished by Global Information Society Watch By Aisha Sarwari, Gul Bukhari and Shahzad Ahmad www.bytesforall.pk PAKISTAN Introduction This report seeks to provide a broad overview of the status of women’s rights in Pakistan, to identify unique areas peculiar to Pakistan, and to contextualise them in terms of the impact and...
Published in The Daily Times on February 16, 2014 By Aisha F. Sarwari The cure to the exploitation and oppression of women is more freedom for them, not less. The Taliban do not agree. In fact, women factor in the equation as the ones to be eliminated, purged,...
Published in Daily Times on February 02, 2014 By Aisha F. Sarwari In 1878, the US passed the Ku Klux Klan Act, also known as the Third Force Act, to authorise President Ulysses S Grant to declare martial law, impose penalties against terrorist organisations and use military...
Published in The Express Tribune, December 12th, 2013. Underneath the fierce nationalism of some statesmen, a new narrative has emerged. It talks of the cultural repression of Muslim women, the drift towards bigotry and the wondrous architecture of buildings and language — this narrative says that...
Interview on NPR on October 25, 2013: http://www.npr.org/2013/10/25/240749015/do-pakistanis-support-us-drone-attacks?ft=1&f=1014# Drone strikes in Pakistan are in the spotlight after that country's Prime Minister visited the U.S., and a new report detailed hundreds of civilian casualties from American attacks. But how do people in Pakistan view drones? Host Michel Martin...
Our message to young girls reads as: you can be shot in the head for fighting for your right to an education; you could be imprisoned if you are framed for blasphemy, and you could be gang-raped for being what 5-year-olds are: vulnerable. The stories...