Mira Bagwal: Pakistan’s First E-Village

Posted on May 12, 2010
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Babar Bhatti The concept of E-village has been discussed in email groups for a while. Recently, Pakistan’s first actual E-Village was launched, courtesy of various organizations and hard work by a few key passionate people. I guess this makes Mira Bagwal, a village located some 30 km from Islamabad, Pakistan’s first E-village. In practice, this […]

Violence Against Women: The Barbarians Within Us

Posted on May 10, 2010
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Sehar Tariq We all remember the barbaric footage of the Taliban flogging a young girl in Public. Chillingly similar was the story of the police in Faislabad, flogging a woman who had gone to report a theft. We all remember the months of debate on whether the flogging of the girl in Swat was authentic […]

Happy Mother’s Day: Remembering Mother

Posted on May 9, 2010
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Bradistan Calling Mother Beloved moved to her Heavenly abode on 27 December 2008, but a part of her died a year earlier in the catastrophe that struck Pakistan on 27 December 2007 when prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed. Benazir Bhutto used to come to her house for delicious Pakistani food, during her exile in […]

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