Nor Niaza was trapped in the bombardment with her paralyzed husband and mentally ill son.
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Posts Tagged ‘ drones ’
“Her Head Was Ripped Apart” | Voices from North Waziristan
A New Kind of War is Being Legalized
There's a dark side to the flurry of reports and testimony on drones. Those responsible for the crimes are being asked to define what is and is not legal.
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Accounting for the Drone Debate
Irrespective of whether statistics on “civilians” and “militants” are being used to endorse or undermine the drone campaign, this dialogue addresses FATA residents only as denizens of a neo-colony. The new year has brought a redoubled American drone campaign to Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Region (FATA). Support and condemnation have been vociferous, with evidentiary statistics deployed...
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Drone strikes, factory fires and imperialism in Pakistan
The factory fire in Karachi is no less an outcome of imperialism in its neoliberal capitalist face, than drone strikes are the outcome of imperialism in its armed warfare face. Let’s talk a little bit about what imperialism looks like. Pakistanis and Muslims in general talk a lot about imperialism—mainly about American imperialism—but we...
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How Not to Talk About Malala
Critics are exploiting Malala’s attack either to prove a point about drones or to “prove” Muslim barbarity. Many analysts and critics across a spectrum are exploiting Malala’s attack to justify their own political ambitions whether it’s a position on drones or a moment to allegedly prove the barbarity of the Muslim world. Those who...
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On Malala
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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