Thousands sat in protest against the January 10 blast that murdered 100 Hazaras this weekend. However, the demand for army takeover ignored the institution’s incompetence, or unwillingness, to take on the killers. Hazaras had yet to recover from the pains of the twin blasts on Alamdar Road on January 10, when another bomb destroyed...
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Posts Tagged ‘ human rights ’
Demand for Army Takeover Ignored Causes of Killings
Reporter’s Notebook: The Second Dharna
A visit to the Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen dharna (sit-in) in Lahore–held in solidarity with the victims of the Kirani Road blast.
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Issue III: Solidarity Politics
From Bara to Quetta to Palestine, we consider solidarity politics this month.
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Abuses on the Path to Salvation
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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Obscuring Empire
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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