Lest we forget on January 15, 2011Qambar Chakar’s story begins on July 10, 2008 when he, Khurshid Baloch and Qayyum Baloch, then studying in Balochistan University of Information Technology and Management Sciences (BUITMS), began a hunger strike unto death to protest the discriminatory admission policy. Based on open merit for the entire Balochistan, it meant that students from backwaters could not […]
Colonial prejudices on January 8, 2011All writers receive disapproving and hate mail and mostly avoid bringing it up, but sometimes critics come up with ideas that need to be refuted. Consequently, I share with readers the mail that reflected a mindset, which has resulted in the ascendancy of bigotry and suppression of national rights. Moid Alam of Coalition For Restoration […]
Why dont black Americans swim? on January 1, 2011Last year in August, six teens drowned in Red River, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. First, while wading, 15-year-old DeKendrix Warner accidentally stepped into deeper water and panicked. Then six teenagers, one only 13, rushed to help him and each other. All six drowned because none of them could swim. The parents watched helplessly as they too […]