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Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Tale of two. Pakistan has been described by Newsweek magazine as "the most dangerous place in the world". However, as intense fighting continues and casualties rise, Mohammed Hanif in Karachi says that for the moment there is still a thriving social life. Last week I received an e-mail from the foreign editor of a European newspaper who said: "So I wonder if you could write a story for us about living in Pakistan which, looking from here, seems to be the bottom of hell. " I was tempted to write to him and tell him that we were not at the bottom of hell yet, but we were trying hard to get there. Or something like, yes, we are at the bottom of the hell but at least the weather is fine.
I also thought of asking whether the bottom of hell is supposed to have hole-in-the-wall cash machines and art galleries. Do they allow children to play cricket in the street there? 'Bad name' I did not write it because I realised that I was thinking like a certain kind of Pakistani. They do care about these things. The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily. Girl thrown to dogs was pregnant. Chapati Mystery » Wherein I Give Deets.
The non-juicy kind, at least. Look, I know dissertations are supposed to be shameful and to be hidden in the attic. I agree. Still, I thought that my gentle readers would want to know what I have been up to, when not putting up youtube songs. So, below the fold, you can read my defense presentation (with a section missing). It is customary, at Chicago, for the candidate to have 20 minutes to lay out the case, before the grilling begins. Keep in mind that I wrote this as an oral presentation, so some of the verbiage is awkward in print. The Many Histories of Muhammad b. This dissertation began with the question, Why Muhammad b. As a school child in Zia ul-Haq’s Pakistan, I produced more than a healthy share of panegyrics to Muhammad b. All this anecdotal evidence serves only to highlight the context from which I began this study. Why did General Zia ul-Haq’s nascent government choose to build a nation out of the mythography of this particular conqueror.
Exiles’ return - The National Newspaper. Police exhume bodies of two women buried alive -DAWN - Top Stori. QUETTA, Sept 1: Police exhumed on Monday night the bodies of two women allegedly buried alive in the Baba Kot area of Nasirabad district last month. “Police opened up the grave pointed out by the arrested accused and two bodies were found,” DIG Ghulam Shabir Shiekh told Dawn. Police cordoned off the area and arrested three people. Sources said police opened up graves on indications given two of the arrested men -- Umaid Ali and Ghous Bakhsh Umrani --, but did not find any body was found in these places. Later the two spoke about a spot in Gopang Leri area. This time police did find the two bodies after opening up a grave in the presence of a magistrate and a team of leady doctors. The victims were identified as Izzat Khatoon and Mai Siyani.
According to an initial medical report, the skull of one of the women was found broken and there were bullet wounds on the other body. There are conflicting reports about the number of victims. The hearing was adjourned to Sept 22. Woman shot dead in Pakistan 'honor killing' - INQUIRER. LAHORE -- A man in a small Pakistani town killed his Danish sister-in-law because he suspected her of having a "bad character", police Tuesday said. Faisal Bashir shot dead 31-year-old Tahira Bibi, who was of Pakistani origin, local police official Mohammad Shahbaz Cheema told Agence France-Presse.
"It's a case of honor killing as Faisal suspected his brother's wife had bad character," Cheema said. He added that police arrested Faisal, his two brothers and father after a complaint by the parents of Tahira, who settled in Kharian -- 150 kilometers (93 miles) northwest of Lahore -- after marrying Mohammad Shehbaz 10 years ago. Her parents accused Shehbaz of asking his family to kill Tahira for not delivering him a baby boy. "However, Faisal told us during interrogation that he shot dead his brother's wife in June after receiving numerous anonymous phone calls that she had a bad character," Cheema added. He said the police had yet to complete investigations. Turkish Schools Offer Pakistan a Gentler Islam. Pakistani women gang raped.
AROUND a dozen men gang raped two women in Pakistan's eastern province of Punjab to avenge a love marriage, the police said today. "The men abducted the women, one of them pregnant, and raped them in a nearby jungle for two days last month in the Rohallanwali area of Muzaffargarh district," Mohammed Rafi, a police investigator, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur. The gang was allegedly led by a man identified only as Latif, whose daughter had eloped with the nephew of the two rape victims. "It seems the accused wanted to take revenge for the loss of their honour," Rafi said. The police have filed a case against the accused and are waiting for results of medical reports.
Romantic relations between unmarried couples are generally viewed as an offence in Pakistan, often resulting in humiliation or physical retribution by parents and relatives. Muzaffargarh is the same district where Mukhtaran Mai suffered a gang rape of the similar nature in 2002. Honor-killings in pakistan. Society - The Diary of a Gay Man from Karachi. South Asia | Why Pakistani ex-PM was deported. By deporting former premier Nawaz Sharif to Saudi Arabia hours after he landed in Pakistan, the country's military-led government has made a difficult choice. It has opted for a confrontation with the Supreme Court instead of allowing Mr Sharif, an unpredictable rival, to set Pakistan's political agenda ahead of elections due later this year.
But will this choice make life easier for Gen Pervez Musharraf, the embattled president of the country? The Supreme Court ruled in July that Mr Sharif could return to the country, ending a seven-year-long exile. His deportation to Saudi Arabia on Monday, say legal experts, breaches that verdict and constitutes contempt of court. So what was the government thinking when it decided to exercise this option? Perhaps the answer lies in the choices Gen Musharraf faces during the next couple of months Eight years after he toppled Mr Sharif's government in a dramatic coup, Gen Musharraf has lost much of his earlier glow.
Losing battle Backfire Temptation Fraught. International Campaign Against Honour Killings › News › Sindh se. The Blog | Ali Eteraz: Pakistan Violence Erupts: President ". Bush + Musharraf = Busharraf. This is what Pakistanis call their "enlightened moderate" (or is it, moderately enlightened) dictator. I met President Musharraf after 9/11. He held a talk and a dinner at the Marriott in DC, and the Pakistani Embassy invited members of the Pakistani-American community. He gave a short talk and then announced that dinner would be served. What kind of dinner was it? Musharraf and his wife came out, sat down on their table all by themselves, which was then cordoned off from the rest of the tables, and we could go to the edge of the restricted area and take pictures of the couple as they ate.
"Thank you for coming all this way," I said to them. Musharraf pretended not to hear me (even though he was no more than six feet from me). "We really appreciate what you and the general are doing with Pakistan," I said to Mrs. When they merely smiled back I felt I needed to take the conversation further so I stammered: "I'm a writer! " "That's great," she replied. Mrs. 80% women in Pak face violence in their lives: Oxfam.