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Niaz: Military Inc
Znet Article, July, 09 2007
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At 10: pm on May 25, Ayesha Siddiqa gets a call from the information minister. It's only a chat he wants with the author of Military Inc. Maybe tomorrow, he can drop in, he wonders. He doesn't. On May 27 evening, Mohammad Ali Durrani calls again, ...
Niaz: One swallow does a summer make!
Znet Article, July, 05 2007
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Can one woman carry a crusade for democracy? Can one woman take on the military and the powerful establishment to demand an end to army rule? Yes if she happens to be a former judge of the Lahore High Court. Yes if her name ends with Iqbal. And ye...
Niaz: Silent Lambs
Znet Article, February, 11 2005
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The woman doctor employed by Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) at Sui in Balochistan, Pakistan's oldest and largest gas field, discovered and operated by PPL, was raped recently in her room at the hostel where she lived. PPL high-ups hushed the iss...
Niaz: The Day of the Jabal
Znet Article, June, 16 2004
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The Day of the Jabal
Niaz: When the pictures become the story
Znet Article, May, 20 2004
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Graphically exposed to images of dehumanization of fellow-beings, the brain savaged with stories despicable, how then does every nerve celled in your body react? Are you sick, nauseated and disgusted at the sight of someone repeatedly denude...
Niaz: Corruption at the UN
Znet Article, April, 20 2004
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His son Kojo is the cause. Kofi, the dad, running the United Nations as the first black to become the 7th Secretary General - thrashing through a 40 year UN thicket infested with hobbits and orcs - is normally a cool cat, known not to shrink from ...
Niaz: Piercing the Veil a la NYT
Znet Article, February, 10 2004
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A Pakistani student at Stanford has produced a documentary about re-inventing the Taliban. This she has done on an assignment for the New York Times. What Sharmeen Obaid didn't ask the MMA beards - several of them - is whether in their 15-month-ol...
Niaz: Lonely in America
Znet Article, January, 12 2003
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Darn, you're a Pakistani! To top it, you're a man, 40, without a Green Card. The combo can't get any deadlier than this in today's jingoistic climate. Who cares if you hold a valid work permit that makes you "legal". None will hear your cries when...
Niaz: When America looked the other way
Znet Article, January, 03 2003
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(Sealed off as 'Top Secret' by the State Department and CIA, now after three decades, 46 declassified documents - some 'sanitized' - and a audio clip of Nixon-Kissinger offer a compelling peek at President Nixon and his security adviso...
Niaz: Spiking Stereotypes
Znet Article, December, 09 2002
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Bang in the middle of New York's busiest bus terminal, the Port Authority, two women attendants at a news-stand share dates as they break their fast. One is Pakistani and the other Bangladeshi. Their boss is a man from India. Between the three, th...
Niaz: When lobbying is not a dirty word
Znet Article, October, 16 2002
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Lobbying in America is a study in status crazed connections. Yet, if denuded of its three- piece-business-suit respectability, lobbying, soliciting and hustling happen to be clones of the oldest profession in the world. But in the American system,...
Niaz: They can't wish her away
Znet Article, October, 16 2002
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“I have never known a riot which has used the sexual subjugation of women so widely as an instrument of violence. There are reports everywhere of [the] gang-rape of young girls and women, often in the presence of members of their families,...
Niaz: Americana Under Attack
Znet Article, August, 20 2002
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A destructive and parodied image of America abroad scanned by the powerful Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) galvanized the White House to move swiftly and give US a makeover. Crafted by an independent task force of 35 experts on public diplomacy...
Niaz: Phantoms of Liberty and its Victims
Znet Article, August, 11 2002
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"To those who pit Americans against immigrants and citizens against noncitizens, to those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and dimi...
Niaz: A Cry for Help
Znet Article, August, 11 2002
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With several hundred more Pakistanis waiting to be deported by the United States on visa violations, many human rights organizations and volunteers here are actively involved in providing legal, moral and financial support to the victims and their...
Niaz: FBI and INS play catch up
Znet Article, August, 11 2002
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Caramel colored clouds that hang atop Brooklyn Prison and Detention Center lend a sober sight to a treeless, flowerless and a friendless neighborhood. Dog dirt strewn across the pavement emits a fowl smell while the desolate structures all around ...
