Jaswant Singh urges to look into past for future peace
“Our past is not our past. Our past becomes the present. Unless we get rid of the shadows of our history, peace will continue to elude us…if the governments fail the people, the people themselves must not fail themselves. Expand the constituency of peace and pursue it.”
Karachi: Indian politician and writer of Jinnah: India-Partition Independence Jaswant Singh gave a lecture [...]
Wiretapping in Pakistan
It’s an irony Benazir would have appreciated. Much of the ‘evidence’ that poisoned her voters, brought down her govt and even became the justification for her husband’s conviction was culled from wiretaps. Now again in 2010 wiretaps are being conducted while the PPP’s in govt.
Surveillance: Finding Orwell in Pakistan
Karachi: It’s an irony slain PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto would have appreciated. Much of the [...]
American Rose fights for Pakistani husband
ISLAMABAD: Rose, a 32-year-old American woman in Islamabad, is seeking justice for her Pakistani husband, Hasan, who claims that he was detained and tortured by officials of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) before being deported in 2006.
The couple, who have asked that their last names be withheld for security reasons, is currently appealing to the US embassy [...]
Returning to Benazir
Salman Siddiqui’s journey from Karachi to Garhi Khuda Baksh commemorates Benazir’s first death anniversary and documents her legacy as manifest in the memories of the people of Sindh. He meets those who believe her political fortunes have shaped Pakistan, whether for better or worse.
On December 23, 2008, Dawn.com reporter Salman Siddiqui set off from Karachi to travel to Garhi Khuda Baksh, former [...]
Drones: Made in Pakistan
‘Drone technology has existed in Pakistan for the last 20 years…If we consider the fact that drone development has been taking place in Pakistan for the last 20 years, I think the technology for flying long-range autonomous missions has existed for at least 10-12 years.’
KARACHI: Looking at the facility from outside, no one would guess what goes on within the [...]
On Friday, an explosion in Karachi targeted Shia mourners on their way to a Chehlum procession. A second blast hit the main public hospital where causalities from the first blast were being taken. According to agencies, the latest death toll is 25, while nearly 100 people were wounded in the twin blasts. These attacks come just a month after a [...]
KARACHI: Fauzia lies lifeless at Karachi’s largest public hospital after receiving a fresh doze of chemotherapy injections. Struggling to speak, all she says is, “I got cancer at age 24”.
“We hail from Mansehra. Initially, when Fauzia became ill, we all thought that it wasn’t a big ailment and suspected that she was suffering from weakness which some girls of her [...]
KARACHI: On Wednesday, more than 48 hours after a blast on M.A. Jinnah Road during a Muharram procession killed 44 people, sporadic flames continued to flare from burnt shops located between Denso Hall and Bolton Market. These are the lingering aftermath of riots and vandalism the erupted in the area in the immediate wake of the blast. Surveying the damage [...]
KARACHI: A deadly blast in the middle of the Muharram procession on M.A. Jinnah road has caused chaos and mayhem. Unbearable scenes of death and blood are everywhere.
“I was only 50 feet away from the site of the blast which took place just after Jama Cloth market,” said a completely shaken 45-year-old Muzaffar Hussain. “God saved me somehow. I saw [...]
The journey between two continents has transformed a Baloch, Babar Hussain, into a French musician, Francois Dumas. Click image below to view slideshow (produced by Salman Siddiqui):
Urban Journeys was the first multimedia audio/visual show series ever produced by an English-language Pakistani online news portal, Dawn.com. The series was produced and edited by journalist Salman Siddiqui. The concept of the series was to highlight socio-economic issues of Pakistan through the eyes of its people belonging to diverse backgrounds using the various modes of transportation available in a [...]
Urban Journeys was the first multimedia audio/visual show series ever produced by an English-language Pakistani online news portal, Dawn.com. The series was produced and edited by journalist Salman Siddiqui. The concept of the series was to highlight socio-economic issues of Pakistan through the eyes of its people belonging to diverse backgrounds using the various modes of transportation available in a [...]
Urban Journeys was the first multimedia audio/visual show series ever produced by an English-language Pakistani online news portal, Dawn.com. The series was produced and edited by journalist Salman Siddiqui. The concept of the series was to highlight socio-economic issues of Pakistan through the eyes of its people belonging to diverse backgrounds using the various modes of transportation available in a [...]
