South Asia

Articles

• India must back Shahbag and the quest for war crime justice
  14 March 2013, by siawi3

  Why the protests swelling in Dhaka since February 5 are not like the Arab Spring as many have written? Said blogger MM Parvez, one of the founders of the Bangladesh Online Network for National Interest, that gave the original call for Shahbag. “The Arab spring in general, and Tahrir Square protests in particular, fought dictatorial regimes but ended up benefitting religious extremists and bringing them to power. In Shahbag, we are fighting religious extremists of the Jamaat e Islaami (JI), we want them out of politics once and for all”.

• Pakistan: Women Action Forum accuses Taliban and other sectarian groups of crimes against humanity
  12 March 2013, by siawi3

  On International Women’s Day, Women’s Action Forum stands in solidarity with all sectarian and religious minorities against terrorist groups. WAF condemns all extremist, armed militant forces that invoke religion as their ideological justification for mass killings, terrorist attacks and brutalities against citizens of Pakistan. We believe the way out is to be found within the Constitution and democracy. WAF reiterates the necessity of a secular dispensation.

• Afghanistan: the blind pursuit of peace and reconciliation
  11 March 2013, by siawi3

  Putting criminals back to the community without making them pay for their human rights offences is like tinkering with a time bomb. It will not take long before the quench for justice of offended citizens collides with their returning offenders, to the detriment of peace in communities. Our peace process is actually a vessel for enabling more human rights violations to ensue in the near future.

• Pakistan: ‘Secularism is the way forward’
  12 March 2013, by siawi3

  “Secularism is the message of humanity; it is not against religion.”

• ‘Secularism only remedy to present turmoil in Pakistan’
  12 March 2013, by siawi3

  Pakistan can not come out of its present turmoil unless its society and polity are organized on genuine democratic and secular values, declared the members of Forum for Secular Pakistan on Sunday.
  “We wish to emphasis on secularism without which even democracy does not bear fruits”.

• Pakistan peacenik Iqbal Haider dies weeks before Mumbai visit
  12 March 2013, by siawi3

  Death of a tireless peace and secular activist in Karachi.
  Deeply disturbed by the growing influence of fundamentalism in Pakistan and elsewhere, Haider never missed an opportunity to criticise Taliban and other extremist forces in his quest for a ’secular Pakistan’.

• Pakistan’s Education Crisis: What Ever Happened To Malala’s Friends?
  8 April 2013, by siawi3

  In the past 40 years, there has been a huge expansion of private schools in Pakistan. In the 1970s, barely 1 percent of schools were private, says Mr. Zaidi. Today over a third of all children attend private schools, a statistic that reveals the huge appetite for education in Pakistan. But the quality of education remains low, and there is also a simple shortage of girls’ schools.

• Pakistan: women stand against religious militants, and for secularism
  8 April 2013, by siawi3

  We refuse attempts at differentiating ‘good’ and ‘bad’ militants and reject efforts of negotiations and peace building with them. We demand that militant religious organizations face public criminal prosecution through due process of law. WAF reiterates the necessity of a secular dispensation.

• Afghanistan : « Les femmes font mauvais usage de la démocratie »
  1er avril 2013, par siawi3

  cet article analyse le contenu de ces paniques et étudie les performances publiques de ces jeunes filles qui, confrontées à de nouveaux modèles de féminité, tentent de trouver une expression qui leur soit propre tout en restant fidèles à la « religion » et à la « tradition ».

• In Taliban heartland, villagers declare ‘enoug
  26 March 2013, by siawi3

  An uprising against the Taliban that began last month in this southern Afghan village has now spread through dozens of towns, according to residents and Afghan and US officials, in the most significant popular turning against the Islamist insurgents in recent years.

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