Note: For privacy and confidentiality, names of the participants in this exchange have been withheld. First participant is denoted by P1 while the second one by P2.
P1:
Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen has announced to show its mass
Human Rights Advocacy and Media Watch
On Tuesday, 3 April 2012, at least six passenger buses were stopped by Al Qaeda affiliated Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ also known as Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan) militants in Bonar Das area in Chilas (Gilgit Baltistan), passengers were segregated by checking their identity documents or/and examining at their backs (to see self-flagellation marks on Shia Muslims), those found or believed to be Shia Muslims were brutally killed and many other Shias were kidnapped.
The 3 April 2012 massacre in Chilas was the sequel of the February 2012 massacre when ASWJ-SSP militants stopped buses and vans travelling to Gilgit on the Karakoram Highway in Kohistan, verified the
The perpetual attacks against Shia Muslims of Balochistan are particularly hurting Quetta’s Hazara community because it is relatively easy to identify and attack Hazaras due to their particular physical features.
The Hazara community has been living in Quetta for centuries with exemplary peace and fraternity. The
Pakistan’s self acclaimed liberal, columnist and rights activist Marvi Sirmed has written an article in Express Tribune (18 June 2012) to prove that the alleged list of Malik Riaz’s beneficiaries is fake, and that along with other “credible journalists”, her name too does not deserve to be in that notorious list.
While I have no means to confirm or challenge the authenticity of the Riaz Malik’s beneficiaries list, in this post, I seek to offer some quick comments on Marvi’s article which is
Appeal to concerned Pakistanis working at banks
MCB, NATIONAL BANK, HABIB BANK, NICB, UBL OR THE ROUTING BANKS.
Please provide us with the counter proofs. This is time for citizen journalism to build a corruption free Pakistan.
Despite vehement denials by those implicated in the Media Gate, the Bahria Gate list of journalists is not fake.
I am writing this brief post to confirm that the list of payments to journalist by the real estate tycoon Malik Riaz (of Bahria Town) is real. This has been personally confirmed to me by
On several occasions, Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and his several promoters and fans have stated that he does not have a house nor the resources to buy one. Well he owns one in Quetta Cantt, and has rented it out.
CJ Chaudhry is known to keep grudges, and could go very low when he gets an opportunity. The entire Balochistan high court is aware of this trait of his, where he has served as a justice and then eventually as CJ Balochistan High court. So when he came back after being restored, the entire Balochistan High court judges resigned, which is not a joke. Not one, not two, but the entire lot resigned. Why? I leave that to your imagination. This did not happen anywhere else, Why?
One has to give him credit for his journey. Being born in the house of a Police Hawaldar, having
Noted “liberal” Raza Rumi (Director of ISI-sponsored Jinnah Institute) continues his hate campaign against Pakistan Blogzine. This time, he chose an interview to the Herald magazine as the platform to vent his grievance against us.
“A website ostensibly working for human rights advocacy and media watch but in reality is dedicated to criticising Pakistani journalists, posted a blog about a journalist and blogger Raza Rumi. “My comments were taken out of context, making me sound like someone I could not recognise,” he says. “It is the worstread more »
Translation of Dialy Tawar editorial: 30/05/12
Exactly at the same time when PM Gilani was issueing statement about the increasing number of missing persons, two mutilated bodies from Quetta and one from Khuzdar were found of the missing persons. The PM was admitting that the number of missing persons was rising. He said he would talk