All told, one has to credit the AI researchers for being uncompromising in their denunciation of army abuses. This has always been the honest liberal’s central virtue: unremitting defense of everyone’s right to have rights. Years ago, in his conclusion to The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon observed acerbically that those who never...
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Amnesty’s approach seeks to surgically extract the conflict in Pakistan from its broader geopolitical context. Back in April 2012, Pakistan’s Parliament unanimously called on the United States to end its drone strikes in the country. The resolution was backed by the country’s powerful military apparatus. Nevertheless, the US has continued its drone strikes in...
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This is a live project by Josh Begley. The Twitter stream below is continually being updated. Josh Begley, maker of the drone app that Apple rejected, has been tweeting every American drone strike since 2002 on Twitter @dronestream. The project, which began on Dec 11th and was supposed to last only 10 minutes, is now...
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Waziris Mourn Their Dead After Army Attacks | Tanqeed from Tanqeed on Vimeo. VIDEO: Waziris carry the coffins of their dead in a massive funeral procession and march following an attack by the Pakistani Army on its own citizens. The Pakistani Army subjected Mir Ali, one of North Waziristan’s heavily populated areas, to heavy...
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Pakistan and the world needs to change its approach to secure women rights. What happened to Malala Yousafzai was a horrific act that shows that the Taliban will not hesitate to use terror as a weapon to create fear amongst the population. While the world has the option to choose its stories, we, in...
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It’s heartening to see Pakistanis take an eager interest in the fate of Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old shot in the head and neck by the TTP. Our capacity for collective horror at this insensible act is a marker of our ability to be moved by the tragic and to be shocked by the cruel....
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