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• More Earthquake Pictures

  Published: February 16, 2006, 4:58 pm

  Tags: Earthquake In Pakistan

  I have been back from Pakistan for several weeks now. I was going to write about it and post pictures. I never got around to it. Sorry. Most of my time in Pakistan was spent doing relief work with Sungi in both Kashmir and NWFP. I posted a little about it here during my first few days at the base camp at Bisyan. I also did some work for

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• Who is a Muslim?

  Published: July 18, 2007, 4:31 pm

  Tags: Islam, Pakistan, Progressive Muslims, Who Is A Muslim

  50 years, the government of Pakistan convened a council of Ulema to decide "Who is a Muslim?" Their decision in the end was that the State and community must recognize anyone who claims to be a Muslim to be a Muslim. That was the official position of the 2nd largest Muslim nation in the world--then the only "Islamic

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• On the Robert Jensen article quoting Farid Esack and Junaid Ahmad...

  Published: July 18, 2007, 2:03 pm

  Tags: Lal Masjid, Liberals, Pakistan, Progressive Politics

  All of which amuses this Pakistani liberal/progressive/whatever no end. (As a friend of mine just put it over the phone from Pakistan, "when it comes to Pakistan, the definition people seem to have is that if you're not a mullah, you're liberal"--a definition these gentlemen seem to subscribe to.) Especially since I am FROM one of

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• Pride and Human Rights in Pakistan...A New Blog

  Published: July 18, 2007, 2:10 am

  Tags: Human Rights, Pakistan

  pride in Pakistan. In something uniquely Pakistani. Not a word you will hear often given the news coming out of that country. We have heard about Mukhtaran Mai. And if you are a regular reader of this blog and my other blog, you will remember my quoting Dr. Adil Najam about how Mukhtaran Mai is the one Pakistani he's most proud to have met.

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• A Converstation in Muslim Nationhood

  Published: June 11, 2007, 6:16 am

  Tags: Blogs, Community, Nationalism, Pakistan

  athar.osama@gmail.com ---- * Pakistan Software Industry Study: http://paksoftwarestudy.vttp.org * Pakistan Inc. -- IT Industry Edition: http://pakistan-inc.blogspot.com * Pakistan Kaha'ni -- The Life and Times of a Nation: http://pakistan-kahani.blogspot.com * Pakistan Economy Blog: http://pakistan-economics.blogspot.com * Technology &

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• Inzamam courted by Indian league

  Published: July 29, 2007, 10:57 am

  Tags: Pakistan

  Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq is approached to join the unofficial Indian Twenty20 league.

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• Arts: This is Not Us; Muslim Musical Artists Join in Song Protesting Terrorism & Violence

  Published: July 29, 2007, 10:10 pm

  Tags: Arts, Pakistan

  Pakistani pop stars promote anti-terror hit Riazat Butt (The Guardian) In Pakistan they are as famous as Beyonc and Justin Timberlake, with 60m album sales between them, and their first musical collaboration has had 65,000 downloads and been number one on MTV. But the pop stars on one of the biggest Pakistani records of 2007 are not singing

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• Book: Unbroken Spirit, by Ferzanna Riley

  Published: July 29, 2007, 5:59 pm

  Tags: Forced Marriage, United Kingdom, Arts, Pakistan

  A visitor here, who I will call SK, wrote: I saw an interview on tv (This Morning) with a Muslim who wrote a book called Unbroken Spirit. I went out and bought the book and couldn’t put it down until I read it all the way through. It’s a very powerful book about her life as a British Muslim and how she tried to find her identity and

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• We Get Results

  Published: July 31, 2007, 6:01 am

  Tags: Liberal Nonsense, Terrorism, Media Morons, Pakistan

  frontier area of northwest Pakistan known as Waziristan. The question is: What is the United States going to do about it? Are you calling us out? Challenging the President’s manhood (when that flightsuit revealed exactly how much manhood he had)? Are you saying you want a fight? Amigo! For those who might have forgotten in the six

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• Speed Read Feed for August 2, 2007

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:32 am

  Tags: Speed Read Feed, Barack Obama, Bridge Collapse, Bumpshack, Elton John, Fisher Price, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Internet, Iraq, John Edwards, Lead Paint, Michael Vick, Mississippi River, Nasa, O J Simpson, Pakistan, Rape, Ron Goldman, Rudy Giuliani, Sex

  about sending troops into Pakistan- Yahoo! News Couple arrested for having sex in front of daycare center- Smoking Gun John Edwards says Rudy Giuliani is Bush on steroids- Rolling Stone Iraq war costs $4,000 dollars every second- Daily Mail Fisher-Price recalls 1 million toys made in China- Breitbart Elton John

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• Nick Saban Has the Best Hair...Ever

  Published: August 3, 2007, 7:33 am

  Tags: Nick Saban, Ncaa Football, Alabama, Jai Eugene, Pakistan

  comparison between Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf and Saban as well.Look how straight Musharraff's part is...Wow again!! Anyway as I was watching the SEC Media Days and the camera panned on Saban in the crowd, and he actually had to flip one of his big fluffy and unruly hair wings (or wing hair? or just a wing?) with his

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• Obama-Tancredo ‘08

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:43 pm

  Tags: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan

  ticket I could get behind! Pakistan has criticized U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama for saying that, if elected, he might order unilateral military strikes against terrorists hiding in this Islamic country. Top Pakistan officials said Obama’s comment was irresponsible and likely made for political gain in the race for the

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• Pakistan squad clear in drug test

  Published: August 4, 2007, 8:26 am

  Tags: Pakistan

  All 26 of the Pakistan players tested for banned substances return negative samples.

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• Obama’s war plans

  Published: August 1, 2007, 6:05 pm

  Tags: Power Games, Safe Negro Report, Troop Surge Plan, Troop Withdrawal, Political Expediency, Obama For President, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan, George W Bush, 2008, Politics

  to order U.S. forces into Pakistan if necessary to seek out and kill known terrorists. “When I am president, we will wage a war that has to be won,” Obama told an audience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. He added, “I will not hesitate to use military force to take out terrorists who pose

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• The Opinionator: A blog at the NY Times by Tobin Harshaw & Chris Suellentrop

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:30 am

  Tags: Suellentrop Chris, The Opinionator, Pakistan, Obama Barack

  Tags: Barack Obama, Pakistan The Wall Street Journal editorial page isn't exactly a target constituency for a Democratic candidate in advance of the presidential primaries and caucuses, but a Journal editorial nearly swoons over Barack Obama's statement [$] that, as president, he would target Al Qaeda in Pakistan if General Pervez

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