http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/ beena-issues Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:37:30 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1070 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1070 1. Remembering KO - Kaleem Omar in an age gone by 'The News on Sunday', July 5, 2009 - http://tinyurl.com/lbw38m with contributions by Irfan Husain, Salman Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:29:38 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1069 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1069 Uploaded on beenasarwar.wordpress.com with photos Karachi, June 26 PERSONAL POLITICAL `This wonderful Doc?' Beena Sarwar She is not the grave-visiting sort. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:48:17 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1068 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1068 (Photo and text at beenasarwar.wordpress.com) Beena Sarwar KARACHI, Jun 28: One of the most unexpected tributes to Michael Jackson after the superstar's sudden Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:50:15 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1067 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1067 Hello all, it's been a while since I last posted anything to this list. Have been caught up in a bit of a backlog. Have uploaded new material, including Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:42:48 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1066 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1066 In this post: 1. `Beating Back the Taliban' - my column for HardNews, written May 25, 2009 ? extract: Even before the army action, the wild, bearded, Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:56:50 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1065 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1065 Condolences: Lourdes Joseph, longtime activist and office secretary of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) passed away today in Dubai of a heart Tue, 26 May 2009 10:14:16 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1064 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1064 Dr Sarwar passes on KARACHI, May 26: One of Karachi's oldest general practitioners, well known physician and former student leader Dr Mohammad Sarwar passed Tue, 26 May 2009 10:13:12 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1063 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1063 Post of May 25 that I forgot to send - In this post: Updates by Naeem Sadiq, Bushra Khaliq and an appeal by the Muslim Canadian Congress 1. Email from Naeem Fri, 22 May 2009 07:22:40 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1062 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1062 Here's an update from Pervez Hoodbhoy. UNHCR has organised a text message donation, in which you text "SWAT" from your cell phone to the number 20222 and $5 Wed, 20 May 2009 08:09:21 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1061 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1061 Further to my earlier note on how to help those forced to become refugees in their own land - the largest internal displacement ever in Pakistan as the army Fri, 15 May 2009 05:18:45 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1060 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1060 A lot going on but huge backlog (on the personal front, the 'Old Fighter' as his friend Eric Rahim called him still in hospital, fighting on). In this post: 1. Fri, 08 May 2009 07:02:36 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1059 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1059 1. Below, an article I wrote soon after hearing of Justice Sabihuddin's passing away that pulls together various issues linked to the lawyers' movement Tue, 05 May 2009 18:28:57 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1058 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1058 When Victor Gordon Kiernan passed away in February this year aged 95, the Pakistani media took surprisingly little notice (or perhaps not so surprising, given Mon, 04 May 2009 05:53:58 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1057 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1057 Sorry people, double-posted the Talibanisation link from my HardNews article. The column Arundhati `Pakistani' and Ram Sene `Patriotic' is now up Sat, 02 May 2009 15:32:14 GMT Beena Sarwar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1056 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/beena-issues/message/1056 Greetings people, A lot has been going on that I've been unable to keep up with due to my father falling ill right after I returned from India (he's still in