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Roman Polanski, Unwanted and Undesired
2008-06-10 00:32:00 ?Father McGillicuddy would never do a thing like that.? you can hear the believers saying. Because to admit that he could and he did would take the roof off the church. Blaming a famous director for raping a child not only invalidates a lot of people?s meal tickets, it scares us. The only way to keep a comfort level is to blame the victim.
By: Kmareka.com
Suicide Attack at Danish Embassy in Islamabad: Dastardly, Cowardly, Inexcus
2008-06-02 15:47:00 Adil Najam The cowardly suicide attack on the Danish Embassy in Islamabad which has led at least eight people dead is not just an attack on a foreign embassy in Pakistan, it is an attack on Pakistan. There is and there can be no excuse for this dastardly action, and to make excuses is to become part ...
Just Wondering? (for May 26, 2008)
2008-05-26 15:29:00 ? …how President Bush and Senator McCain can in good conscience honor the memory of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of this nation (including the 4,082 American service members killed in the Iraq War) and yet continue to oppose a new GI Bill that has strong bipartisan support. ? …why the United ...
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Vigilante Justice: Horrible, Horrifying, Horrendous (Reader discretion advi
2008-05-16 17:49:00 Adil Najam For nearly two days now I have been debating whether to put up this post and, especially, the accompanying photograph. A shiver runs through my body to think about, let alone see, this picture. But as we have done before (here, here, here, here, here, here) we put up this picture of mob vigilante violence ...
Judges To Be Reinstated, Says Nawaz. But What Does That Mean?
2008-05-02 22:23:00 Adil Najam ATP has closely followed, what is now called the “Judicial Crisis”, carefully and with grave concern from its very beginning. We have been sad when things went wrong, been elated when they things went right, and rejoiced at the democratic sentiment that has often been expressed through this movement. In all cases, we have ...
Power Politics: The Violence of Energy Insecurity
2008-04-16 08:06:00 Adil Najam These pictures from the Associated Press are truly astounding (story in Dawn).
Growing violence in Pakistani politics - Arbab Ghulam Rahim and Sher Afgan
2008-04-09 00:47:00 Darwaish Last two days have been dramatic in Pakistani politics. Since February Elections, we have been hearing good news, atleast on political fronts. It seemed that Pakistan is finally moving towards national reconciliation and this time politicians are really coming together and serious about solving public problems. But things have suddenly changed since yesterday. In separate ...
Jesus Would be Really Mad
2008-04-07 20:45:00 While it is a great strength of our democracy that we allow freedom of religious practice within the boundaries of law and respect for others, there are some who have no respect and use religion as a cover for bigotry and disgraceful behavior.
By: Kmareka.com
Who Will Stop This Mayhem in Pakistan?
2008-04-02 04:20:00 Deeda-i-Beena They are happening everyday but receive attention only as news of the day. Next day there is a new bombing and another report. Here is a sampling of headlines: ??..(number).. died.? ?Head of the suicide Bomber found.? ?President ? PM (and other ?notable Leaders?) condemn the dastardly attack.? ?President ? PM issue strict orders to catch ...
March 23, 2008: What Jinnah Has to Tell us Today
2008-03-23 05:36:00 Darwaish Today is 23rd March, 2008. On this date in 1940 the historic Lahore Resolution (Later Pakistan Resolution) was passed. Last year in the series of March 23 posts (here, here and here), Adil Najam had written about ‘Owning Mohammad Iqbal.’ This year I thought it would be a good idea to share some of my ...
Bomb Blast in the Heart of Islamabad
2008-03-15 21:40:00 Adil Najam A bomb blast at Luna Caprese - a top-end Islamabad restaurant, located in the very heart of the Federal Capital (near Super Market, Islamabad) frequented often by foreign diplomats and high-level government officials - extremist violence to Islamabad. According to The News: Two persons including Turk female citizen have died and over 15 others have injured ...
Lawyer?s Black Flag Week: The Judiciary Remains a Defining Issue in Pakista
2008-03-09 16:49:00 Adil Najam The judiciary issue remains an irritant to the mainstream political forces in Pakistan - including not just the current establishment but the current opposition forces struggling to become part of the new establishment. The announcement from Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif that they intend to restore the judiciary within 30 days of the formation ...
Police Reform in Pakistan
2008-03-09 05:22:00 Hassan Abbas “The first observation I would like to make is this. You will no doubt agree with me that the first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the state.” - Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s address to the ...
YouTube Blocked in Pakistan. Why?
2008-02-22 16:14:00 Adil Najam It seems that YouTube is down in Pakistan. Possibly it is blocked. Blocking websites is a rather bad habit that the government authorities in Pakistan have gotten into (here and here). This is something that we have written about before. It is silly habit, because technologically it does not work. But, much more importantly, it ...
A Message from Alan Shawn Feinstein
2008-02-10 17:44:00 This message came home with my daughter’s notes from school. Her school is a Feinstein Junior Scholar School. The IMAX Corporation has sold the Feinstein IMAX Theatre, ignoring their promises to me of thousands of tickets yearly and admission discounts to our 155,000 Feinstein Jr. Scholars — and much more. I am asking for damages from ...
By: Kmareka.com
Jerzyk and Segal: Come Together and Work This Out
2008-02-08 01:19:00 There is a great call to unify and make changes in three key areas here in Rhode Island, as outlined by Matt Jerzyk and Rep. David Segal in their editorial in today’s Projo. The editorial concludes: We agree with Governor Carcieri?s assertion in his State of the State address that, ?this crisis presents us with ...
By: Kmareka.com
Silencing the Chaudhries: Iftikhar and Aitizaz
2008-01-26 17:59:00 Adil Najam Much has happened in Pakistan over the last many weeks. Too much. Amidst all the chaos and tragedy it has become difficult to keep track of just all that is happening, let alone make sense of it. It is clear that the dust has not settled yet. Far from it one can be sure ...
Are Ringtones Unislamic? (Please Don?t Answer!)
2008-01-18 06:26:00 Adil Najam Pakistan is a land of creative cell-phone ringtones. Sometimes, I feel, a little too creative. You are sitting in a meeting with some very self-important and staid people - officials, businessmen, buzurg grandfather types - and one of their cell-phone rings: and the ring-tone is a computer synthesis of “Sanou Nehr Waaley Pul Tey Bulla ...
"And Justice For All" / Law and Justice Oil Painting by k Madison Moore
2008-01-18 03:16:00 "And Justice For All"click for larger viewStill Life Law PaintingsPainting with Light and Natural FormCertified Original Law Oil Paintings © 2007 MkM________________________"Jus-tice:Justice is the quality of being just or fair. It is the administration of law; the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishments. Justice is the concept involving the fair, moral and impartial treatment of all persons, especially in law. It is often seen as the continued effort to do what is " right". In most of all cases what one regards as "right" is determined by consulting the majority employing logic, or referring to divine authority, in the case of religion. If a person lives under a certain set of law in a certain country, justice is considered making the person follow the law and be punished if not.It is fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. These quotes can be quoted to highlight the importance of deliverance o...
10+ Dead in Karachi Blast: Aaj aisa nahin, aisa nahin honay daina
2008-01-14 19:39:00 Adil Najam Having to write regular posts of ATP can sometimes become a heavy burden. Not because of the workload. But because of the pain and hurt that can come with following the daily struggles for survival. Today, once again, too many did not survive those struggles. The News reports from Karachi: Death toll in the bomb blast ...
Loophole the Size of a Drive-Thru
2007-12-14 16:18:00 Elizabeth Seal of The Cranston Herald has written an informative piece on the way that a Dunkin’ Donuts drive-thru got approved at 480 Pontiac Avenue despite community opposition because of traffic concerns. From the article: The neighbors of the gas station on the corner of Pontiac Avenue and Laurens Street are preparing a lawsuit after, ...
By: Kmareka.com
World Human Rights Day (Decemebr 10): Indignity and Injustice in Pakistan
2007-12-10 07:32:00 Adil Najam Today, December 10, marks the World Human Rights Day. The theme for this year’s World Human Rights Day is Dignity and Justice For All of Us. One could not possibly think of a more tragic reminder of the state that our country has descended into. It is easy, perhaps too easy, to focus only ...
President of Pakistan: With Many Withouts
2007-12-05 05:25:00 Saleem S. Rizvi Pictures sometimes speak volumes. The picture of Pervez Musharraf?s oath ceremony, shown all over the world, is certainly one of them. It speaks volumes, loud and clear, about a bitter and remorseless retired general who still wants to be at the helm of power by all means possible. After shedding his military uniform that ...
Gen. Musharraf to become Mr. Musharraf on Thursday
2007-11-28 02:09:00 Darwaish So finally, General Pervez Musharraf would become Mr. Pervez Musharraf on Thursday when he will be sworned in as a civilian president at the Aiwan-i-Sadr, Islamabad (29th president of Pakistan). Gen. Musharraf will retire after occupying Chief of the Army Staff post for more than nine years. Given a choice, I am sure he would ...
Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary to receive Harvard Law School Medal of Fre
2007-11-14 04:53:00 Darwaish While Pakistanis are protesting against the Martial Law (or so called Emergency) and attack on judiciary, the Harvard Law School has announced Medal of Freedom for Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary. I first heard the news on Geo and couldn’t believe if it really true but later HLS website has also confirmed this ...
The Doctrine of Necessity
2007-10-21 15:07:00 by Saleem Rizvi No matter how powerful and compelling the arguments may be, in the face of a predetermined and/or preconcluded decision, the outcome would remain the same; the outrageous slaughter of justice at the hands of its guardians. The notion of letting the strongest decide who shall survive raises many problems. Instead of using legal ...
Whitehouse Questions Mukasey on Waterboarding
2007-10-19 16:19:00 Senator Whitehouse attempted to get a clear answer out of Attorney General candidate Michael Mukasey yesterday, but came away “very disappointed.” From The New York Times: […] The questioning by the Democrats was tougher still regarding Mr. Mukasey?s views on presidential authority to order harsh interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects, including waterboarding, which was used ...
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Musharraf Gets Votes, But Loses Big Time
2007-10-07 00:06:00 Adil Najam UPDATE: The picture on the left, published in Daily Times, comes with the caption: “Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri, PML-Q President Shujaat Hussain and MNAs react to an announcement by the Election Commissioner (unseen), at Parliament on Saturday. President Pervez Musharraf won a landslide victory in the election but the official results ...
Avoiding Caruolo Action in Cranston
2007-10-02 17:22:00 Education spending, not legal spending, is what we want in Cranston. I am very happy to hear that former Mayor Traficante and current Mayor Napolitano are on the same page as the rest of us on this. From the Projo: […] With both sources of money in play, Napolitano said, a settlement is possible. ?We ...
By: Kmareka.com
Law and Justice
2007-10-01 02:58:00 Click for larger image.Still Life SeriesCertified Original Art © 2007If I wasn't an artist I would have been an attorney, my second love.Details: 6 x 6 inches, Oil on Gessoed Canvas Hardwood Panel.Finished sides, No frame needed. Wired and ready to hang.Frame not included. Example only.Series#: LawJust-093007Price: $79.00 USA Shipping $10.00To Purchase:email@kmadisonmoore.co-mor Click Buy Now for PayPal SecureCertificate of Appraisal included.Available for CommissionsA Painting A Day Objets d' Art by k. Madison Moore
Disturbing Images from Islamabad: Shameful and Needless Violence Against La
2007-09-29 21:59:00 Adil Najam The stream of disturbing images from Islamabad continues. It has left one dumbfounded. But one must never be silent in the face of injustice. Of the many disturbing reports and images that have been floating in, there is probably none more poignantly disturbing than this one from ARY: WPvideo 1.10
?Non-Maintainable?: What did the Pakistan Supreme Court mean?
2007-09-29 17:23:00 Guest Post by Saleem S. Rizvi By cleverly tiptoeing around the land mine of constitutional issues relating to General Musharraf’s electability in uniform and his second term as president, the majority of the nine- judge bench of the apex court has rendered a decision purely wrapped in legal technicalities. In simple words, the majority of the bench ...
?Is This Why We Made This Pakistan??
2007-09-27 04:31:00 Darwaish Back in January 2007, I wrote about beggars on the streets of Lahore, Karachi and the growing indifference in our society towards these extremely poor and forgotten people. Hundreds of organized gangs are operating in almost every big city of Pakistan who amputate the organs of little kids, old and young people and then leave ...
Naeem Bokhari and Larger Lessons for Pakistan?s Justice System
2007-09-26 20:00:00 Raza Rumi Adil’s post on Kasuri incident has prompted me to recall the recent thrashing of Naeem Bokhari by his peers. That Mr. Naeem Bokhari, documented a nasty invective against the Chief Justice of Pakistan remains a tragic event in our recent history. This letter, wittingly or unwittingly became a basis for that notoriously illegal reference against ...
Manipulated Elections: Karr lo jo karna hai
2007-09-21 11:33:00 Adil Najam The main headline in The News today is revealing. It reads: Oct. 6 set to “re-elect Musharraf.” News reports in major newspapers do not usually use headlines with such obvious sarcasm. In fact, more than sarcasm there is desperation in the headline. It seems that like much of the nation, The News has also, finally, given ...
Crime and Our Society
2007-09-05 05:01:00 S.A.J Shirazi Violent crimes have been at historic up nationwide; they are rising sharply in all cities. The rise seems to have been set off by something more bewildering. Crime, as seen one among several forms of deviance, is a type of anomic behavior; some others characterize it as a more conscious response to social conditions, ...
ATP Repost: Bomb Blasts in Rawalpindi - Pakistan at War
2007-09-04 06:04:00 Adil Najam The post below is a report. I had originally written this on July 19, 2007 after bomb blasts in Hangu, Hub and Kohat, which had themselves followed at the heels of blasts in Islamabad. Today, we just had two blasts in Rawalpindi with more than 15 people already being reported dead. The continuing story here ...
Nawaz Sharif to Return to Pakistan on Sep. 10
2007-08-31 00:53:00 Darwaish Former Prime Minister and exiled PML(N) leader, Nawaz Sharif, announced his return plans today in a press conference in London. He along with his brother, Shahbaz Sharif, will return to Pakistan on 10th September. He announced his return when media is reporting news about the Benazir and Musharraf Deal and the possible settlement on the ...
Supreme Court: Nawaz Sharif Can Return to Pakistan
2007-08-23 15:52:00 Adil Najam In yet another historic decision, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has decided that former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, exiled by Gen. Musharaf, can return to Pakistan. According to The News: The Supreme Court of Pakistan in a landmark verdict on constitutional petitions of Mian Nawaz Sharif and his brother Mian Shahbaz Sharif, Thursday announced ...
Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists
2007-08-19 18:59:00 Author: Michael GagarinPaperback: 236 pagesPublisher: University of Texas Press; 1st edition (July 2002)Language: EnglishISBN: 0292728417(R)Antiphon was a fifth-century Athenian intellectual (ca. 480-411 BCE) who created the profession of speechwriting while serving as an influential and highly sought-out adviser to litigants in the Athenian courts. Three of his speeches are preserved, together with three sets of Tetralogies (four hypothetical paired speeches), whose authenticity is sometimes doubted. Fragments also survive of intellectual treatises on subjects including justice, law, and nature (physis), which are often attributed to a separate Antiphon the Sophist. Were these two Antiphons really one and the same individual, endowed with a wide-ranging mind ready to tackle most of the diverse intellectual interests of his day? Through an analysis of all these writings, this book convincingly argues that they were composed by a single individual, Antiphon the Athenian. Michael ...
Jinnah?s Vision on Pakistan?s Governance
2007-08-19 04:07:00 Guest post by Kruman Since we have been talking here about Jinnah’s vision for Pakistan, maybe we should also think about Jinnah’s vision on Pakistan’s governance. Particularly on the issue of ‘uniforms’ in politics, which is the concern of the day in Pakistan. Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was thinking well ahead of his time. His ...
We Need More Outrage Against Vani in Pakistan
2007-08-16 14:10:00 Adil Najam All major newspapers prominently reported the decision from the Supreme Court of Pakistan ordering “the arrest of the members of a jirga, including PPP MNA Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, that decided to hand over five minor girls for marriage to a family to compensate for a murder in Jacobabad. Three of the 14 jirga ...
Emergency being declared in Pakistan?? But Why??
2007-08-08 22:52:00 Darwaish I am watching television right now and every news channels is reporting that declaration of emergency in Pakistan is likely sometime tonight or tomorrow for sure. This is happening when rumors about PML(N) leaders Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif’s possible return to Pakistan within next 2-3 days were already in the air. Three likely ...
Parking Ordinance and Emilio Navarro?s Response
2007-07-28 15:56:00 Council member Emilio Navarro was good enough to send a copy of the ordinance which was defeated on Thursday night. You can read the full ordinance here. Council Member Navarro provided this accompanying email: Here is a copy of the amended ordinance that died in committee. The argument against the ordinance was it was ...
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The Battle for Lal Masjid Constinues: Another Blast in Islamabad, 12 Killed
2007-07-27 23:22:00 Adil Najam As the mosque formerly known as Lal Masjid was opened for Friday prayers again, things moved back towards mayhem. A major blast - possibly a suicide attack - rocked Islamabad right near the mosque, protesters went wild triggering police response, multiple people have been killed and the attempt to bring the Capital back ...
Government Jobs To Be Given According to Party Quota System?
2007-07-25 04:45:00 Bilal Zuberi Karachiites will certainly remember fiery speeches from Altaf Hussain and other MQM leaders of the 1980’s and 1990’s where he argued and pleaded against the rural-urban quota system which had been imposed in the Sindh province since 1973. MQM, at that point, had argued strongly that such a quota system was not only ...
Supreme Court Reinstates Iftikhar Chaudhry as Chief Justice of Pakistan
2007-07-20 15:42:00 Adil Najam The news is in. The Supreme Court of Pakistan just reinstated Iftikhar Chaudhry as the Chief Justice of Pakistan by throwing out the Presidential reference against him. The Supreme Court has today showed its mettle, just as the lawyers of Pakistan have been showing their mettle for the last many months. One feels proud ...
50+ Dead in Suicide Blasts in Hangu, Hub, Kohat: Is Pakistan at War?
2007-07-19 19:38:00 Adil Najam Suicide attacks today in Hangu, in Hub, in Kohat today. This adds to the blast in Islamabad a few days ago and many others in the NWFP over the last many days. Even for a part of the world which has gotten tragically used to needless death and murder by suicide killers, this is crossing ...
Chief Justice of Pakistan Case: A Constitutional Deja Vu?
2007-07-14 06:29:00 Guest post by Athar Osama Adil Najam’s post on judicial assertiveness the other day sheds light on a very interesting - and important - aspect of the current judicial crisis in Pakistan. What are the limits of Judicial activism or - to use Adil’s words - assertiveness? This is not something new to the world - or ...
Muzammil Shah and the Gun Battle at Lal Masjid
2007-07-10 06:43:00 Adil Najam The news is developing by the moment. But the bottom-line is clear. The security forces have taken control of the Lal Masjid from militants after a severe gun-battle. But the story is far from over. It will continue to unfold. There are too many unanswered questions. They will certainly be asked and discussed threadbare; here ... |
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