Category: Pakistan

Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist, gets 86 years in prison on questionable assault conviction

Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-trained Pakistani scientist who was convicted of charges that she tried to kill Americans while detained in Afghanistan in 2008, was sentenced Thursday to 86 years in prison. Aafia Siddiqui’s sentence was handed down by a federal New York court. The case, barely covered in the United States, has been closely watched […]

Friday September 24th, 2010 in Pakistan, War on Terror | No Comments »

Guest blog by Ethan Casey: What does Pakistan have to do with Haiti?

Port-au-Prince – Haiti is, as a friend of mine put it years ago, a place for big questions. I’ve been trying to understand it for nearly thirty years, and its politics, history and culture have many twists and turns that are still opaque to me. At the same time, it’s a place whose truths and […]

Friday September 10th, 2010 in Haiti, Pakistan | No Comments »

Guest blog by Ethan Casey: Pakistan Floods: Why Should We Care?

(From Ethan Casey’s blog: Reporting with Respect, used with permission.) SEATTLE, AUGUST 13 – Yesterday a non-Pakistani friend here emailed me: “I wanted to ask you which you think would be the best organization to make a donation to for the current crisis in Pakistan. We usually give to MSF, but their website doesn’t seem […]

Sunday August 15th, 2010 in Pakistan | 1 Comment »

Ohio congressman to introduce bills calling for withdrawal from Afghanistan, Pakistan

Despite mounting public protests across the United States against sending more troops to Afghanistan, there has been little reaction from Congress. Now, there seems to be some rumblings of opposition. Yesterday, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), following a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives released this statement: “Today, I will begin circulating two […]

Thursday December 10th, 2009 in Afghanistan, Pakistan | No Comments »

Disappeared Pakistani woman to go on trial in New York

On Monday, Nov. 2, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University, is scheduled to go on trial in New York for allegedly trying to kill FBI agents in Afghanistan. Siddiqui, according to the official U.S. version of events, was arrested in Afghanistan on July 17, 2008, […]

Thursday October 22nd, 2009 in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Torture | 3 Comments »

Aid to Pakistan military troubling

I was just reading today the latest news about the multi-billion dollar Pakistan aid bill currently awaiting President Obama’s signature, when I got an email about the recent abduction of a Norwegian citizen traveling in Pakistan. According to a letter sent out today from the Baloch Human Rights Council of Canada to Norway’s representative in […]

Wednesday October 7th, 2009 in Pakistan | 3 Comments »