In response to Marvi Sirmed’s plea of innocence

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 

Raza Rumi couldn’t stand up to his own ideals and removed my post – by Abdul Majeed Abid

(The Following post was written by me for Pak Tea House and was even published today. To my utter surprise, there was a pandemonium created after this by people who are mentioned in this post and Raza Rumi, an otherwise reasonable person, couldn’t stand up to his own ideals and removed the post. That was an act of shameful capitulation in face of some “brouhaha” by some soul-less media personnel. I refuse to remain silent

Hamid Mir and Raza Rumi bully an establishment planted internet virus, Laibaah

Yesterday, Pakistan Blogzine (PB) published a guest post by an Indian blogger Ankur Desai evaluating Raza Rumi’s appreciation of Hamid Mir as “a brave journalist who continues his great father’s legacy in journalism”.

However, I am amazed to see the ferocious reaction in the aftermath of the guest post. Instead of acknowledging and tolerating the critical post, both Raza Rumi (liberal for some, pseudo-liberal for others) and Hamid Mir (a well known Taliban apologist, right-winger) started a

Raza Rumi loves Hamid Mir loves Hafiz Saeed: A tale of Pakistan’s pseudo-liberals – by Ankur Desai

Related post: Hamid Mir and Raza Rumi’s attack on Laibaah

In the last few months, certain apparently liberal (in fact pseudo-liberal) journalists in Pakistan have been trying to promote Hamid Mir and other dubious persons as anti-ISI, champion of free media and human

Jinnah Institute’s Extremist Watch report misrepresents Shias, Ahmadis and Pashtuns

I have had a quick look at the Jinnah Institute’s report titled ‘Extremism Watch: Mapping conflict trends in Pakistan 2010-2011″.

The Friday Times misrepresents the suffering of Pakistan’s Shias and Ahmadis

We are very disappointed to see misrepresentation of Shia genocide in Pakistan in at least four articles in the current issue of The Friday Times (March 02-08, 2012 – Vol. XXIV, No. 03).

Clearly, authors and editors at TFT have taken lead from their Editor in Chief Najam Sethi who himself was found misrepresenting Shia genocide in Pakistan only a few days ago on Geo TV’s Aapas Ki Baat (Talk Show). The details can be read at the following link: http://criticalppp.com/archives/73439

In addition to misinterpreting and misrepresenting the anti-Ahmadiyya legislation at least in one article by Raza Rumi (discussed next), TFT also published a misleading piece

Comparing Karachi Literature Festival with Difa-e-Pakistan Conference

Two key events took places in Karachi a few days ago (12 Feb 2012): Difa-e-Pakistan Conference (DPC) attended by about 50,000 Jihadi-sectarian militants and the Karachi Literature Festival (KLF) attended by dozens of English and Urdu authors, journalists and other participants (estimated number 800).

Both of these events signify all what is wrong with Pakistan today. Both groups (DPC and KLF) remain

Candid comment is not welcome, at least by Ali Dayan Hasan

I am cross-posting the following conversation from Twitter without any edits or comments. Please read from bottom to top, it is self-explanatory.

Omaidus Malik Omaid
@AliDayan I appr the way HRCP is workin bt the agreived parties want st fwd views, shia’s r being killed so they want open stances

AliDayan Ali Dayan Hasan
@Omaidus Please google HRW’s statements on Ahmadis and Shias.
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Omaidus Malik Omaid
@AliDayan nd at this boiling point HR shd hav