Mahrang Baloch should not be in prison. Women and girls in Balochistan have suffered for years as their male family members were routinely arrested and forcibly disappeared. They deserve the life that everyone deserves: daughters who can go to school, fathers who come home at night.
I stand with my sisters in Pakistan who face harassment and abuse, who are imprisoned for speaking out. This is not new — throughout our history women like Asma Jahangir, Farida Shaheed, Khawar Mumtaz, Hina Jilani and even Fatima Jinnah suffered persecution for standing up. Today, it is Imaan Mazari and Mahrang Baloch.
Rather than addressing the horror of forced disappearances, the anti-terrorism court is targeting those who speak out against the oppression. Mahrang and her fellow activists must be released.
just watched muntaha's uncle's interview, he said he identified 5 people in shop. the owners will pay off police, only 1 or 2 workers will became scapegoats despite all being involved. CCD allegedly killed one, case closed. this is NOT justice. maryam nawaz should be ashamed.
I'm a Hindu and even my father delayed my marriage (way back in 1991) so it doesn't happen in Muharram or Safar. I still remember I got married on 2nd Rabi ul Awal (12th September)
I won't eat in front of someone fasting in Ramzan either ....
My friends don't order beef when we go out to eat because of me.
This is common Courtesy
Similarly even if you are a Muslim Sunni you can refrain from scheduling your marriage in Muharram
Hard to describe how broken and devastated I’m feeling today. Maybe it’s because I have a daughter the same age. I cannot stop thinking about that little girl. Maybe she had been asking all day for some money to buy a packet of chips, a juice, or some sweets. The happiness on her face when her parents finally said yes. Maybe she ran out the door with the kind of excitement only children have, already thinking about what she was going to buy. And maybe her mother, overwhelmed with the endless responsibilities that come with running a home, thought exactly what any parent would think, the shop is right there. She’ll be back in a few minutes. What could possibly happen? That question is breaking my heart. Because this wasn’t a child taking a risk. This wasn’t a dangerous situation. This was a little girl going to a local shop. Something children should be able to do without fear. Instead, she never came home.
I keep thinking about her parents waiting for her to walk back through the door. The first few minutes. Then the worry. Then the panic. Then the realization that something was terribly wrong. And I keep thinking about that little girl. How frightened she must have been. How confused she must have been. How desperately she must have wanted her mother.
There is something unbearable about imagining a child spending her final moments scared and alone, when all she wanted was to go buy a few things and come back home. And my heart breaks for her mother, because I know there will be a part of her that replays that moment for the rest of her life. If only I had gone with her. If only I had walked her there. If only I had said no. But that burden should never have been hers to carry.
Every parent wants to believe that the world is safe enough for their child to walk to a nearby shop and come home a few minutes later. That is not negligence. That is trust. And it is a trust that was shattered in the most horrific way imaginable.
A little girl left home expecting to be back in minutes. She never made it home. And I cannot stop thinking about her. May Allah give her family sabar.
Ghatiya admi ki ek yeh bhi nishani hoti hai k woh ashura walay weekend ko khullay aam“long weekend” bol k fun masti wala trip plan karta hai. Bring back shame.
عمران ریاض سے پوچھنا تھا یہ جو آپ نے فرمایا ہے: عمران خان کا پیغام ہے کہ “میری بہنوں سے کہو مجھ سے جلدی ملنے کی کوشش کریں” یہ آپ کو اچھے جرنیلوں کی طرف سے موصول ہوا تھا یا کوئی ۔۔ تار آئی تھی؟؟ کیونکہ عمران خان تو لاپتہ ہیں، کوئی نہیں جانتا وہ کہاں ہیں، کس حالت میں ہیں، تو پھر آپ کس کے کہنے پر یہ افواہیں پھیلا رہے ہیں؟ اور یہ تاثر دے رہے ہیں عمران خان کے پیغامات باہر آ رہے ہیں؟
Just 10k people were needed. Just 10k people. Not to cause trouble but to pressurize them into allowing the sisters to meet Imran Khan, yet these shameless Pakistanis failed even in this.