Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people campaigning for human rights for all.Amnesty’s ’Counter terrorism with Justice’ movement roared a global wave of awareness.The illegal imprisonment of detainees in Guantanamo was widely criticized. Amnesty members arranged worldwide demonstration protesting the ill-treatment of detainees in such prisons. Being a member our motto was to demand humanitarian [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 26, 2009
Plea to Allah
O Allah please mend my ways. Give me the courage to withstand the changing face of life. The strength to accept your decision in the best way possible. The ability to seek your happiness in everything I do or even hope for. O Allah please help me be among your loved ones. Rid me of [...]
January 15, 2009
King Abdullah a disgrace?
*DISCLAIMER* This could appear to be very blasphemous for those who dont believe in the fact that respect lies in a persons character and not determined by Power specially the kind which is ‘inherited’. With the death toll in Gaza almost over 1000 it is indeed shameful that the Muslim world is yet to take [...]
January 14, 2009
Voices from Gaza :In remembrance of Rachel Corrie
Its hard to fathom how memoirs from the past can have such drastic effects. Back in 2003 while I stood ashamed of certain things there wasindeed an incident that still makes ones heart swell with pride. Ironic it is to imagine how life can teach you through its odd ways. While the so called leader of [...]
January 14, 2009
Sects in Islam, in the light of scripture -Guest Post
The following article is a guest post by Waqas Ali Khan. The author is a Canadian( by nationality) Pakistani( in everything else ) pursuing a career in Civil engineering and a future Geo technical engineer to be . Also a very dear friend. This happens to be one of favorite pieces of writing of course [...]
January 13, 2009
Hollers from Gaza and the hypocrites
Today I stand ashamed of myself just as I was in the wake of 2003 when Gen. Pervez Musharraf recognized ‘Israel’s’ right to exist as a state. Opening diplomatic ties to the state of Israel and also accommodating Israeli Merits a discussion. Five years later the wounds of Gaza still spite our nation. As Israel [...]
January 8, 2009
Guantanamo from both sides of the wire
The US continues to run illegal detention centers. Continuous protests have been registered against the likes of Guantanamo bay. However it is important that protests are registered via different means globally. To initiate a global awareness against the barbarism justified under the ‘war of terror regime’. The work of cage prisoners need to be highlighted. [...]
January 7, 2009
Pro-Pakitsan: Hosting Pakistan’s first Blog writing competition
This is a great pleasure to announce that we’re holding Pakistan’s first blog writing competition. The competition is open for all established and no established bloggers and aspiring bloggers of all ages round the Pakistani Blogosphere. The purpose of this competition is to promote the blogging trend in Pakistan, and to explore the ideas with [...]
Apart from being on a Shameless self marketing spree the author is a Feature Editor (South Asia) at BEE magazine. BEE is a quarterly journal published in Britain, focusing on Asian Women. The author identified the need for a magazine that brings out the intellectual side of Asian women and accepted read *grabbed* the opportunity. A very proud member of Amnesty International Online Community where she helps gain focus for the humanitarian Crisis at hand. This is her personal space where she plans to store all her published and unpublished rants.She is also known to be very lucky with her readers which explains her presence on several other Blogs Pro-Pakistan,Global Voices
