Bilal Khan (Bsc'09) has gone from singing on the campus stairs to having a formal song release. Check it out:
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Lets not forget these shameful images, they represent a problem far beyond (now civilian) Musharraf or the current state of emergency. Can innocent protesters in any civilized society be beaten like this by police? Can helpless females (who happened to be sisters of a national hero Imran Khan) be manhandled by male police officers in a civilized world? The video continues to talk about how Imran Khan feared for his life in Jail and also interviews Jamima Khan in the middle. This should serve as a wakeup call for the Pakistani society. The worst part is that its not only Musharraf who could have ordered such brutality, but any person in power can unleash these uneducated police officers on the common man. What we need is not just freedom from the state of emergency and freedom from Musharraf, but we need to review the very definition of human rights in the country and then take measures to strictly enforce laws to protect basic human rights. |
| We talked about the LUMS Alumni Homecoming'07 a couple of weeks back. We recently heard that, the popular Pakistani band, Strings will perform on the homecoming. A Strings concert will definitely help in making the homecoming a success and we are looking forward to the event. Meanwhile, below is a video of "Najane Kyun" by Strings that was part of the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack. |
| Altaf Hussain says in this video (excuse the dramatic/funny accent) that the partition of India was the biggest blunder ever. |
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These are not your ordinary Pakistani teens. These high school students, probably, belong to the "highest" strata of the Pakistani society and the police knows that. They are not manhandled or beaten up with sticks when pushed inside police vans. In Pakistan, the list of people the police can manhandle might include white-collar lawyers, but not these kids. There is considerable hesitance from the police in the beginning and looks like later on they got the green light from someone very high up to round up these kids. This is a scene you would not normally see in Pakistan, a country where some people are more equal than others and the Islamabadi elite definitely qualify for that. |
Continue reading Little Souls Protest in Islamabad.
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This (nicely done) video shows a sharp contrast between what we teach our children in school everyday and what is currently happening in the country. The video features a poem that school children in Pakistan sing daily in the morning with added clips from the recent fall of judiciary. The content is in Urdu, but you don't really need to understand the lyrics to get the message. |
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Imran Khan appreciates the recent reaction from LUMS students. He is currently hiding from police and in this interview (language is Urdu not English) he talks about various issues concerning the current political situation. Imran mentions LUMS in the interview and talks about how the reaction from the student body of an institution like LUMS symbolizes the forthcoming winds of change. At one point in the interview he talks about how certain media policies were proving to be uncomfortable for the local population. These comments might seem odd coming from Imran Khan who is largely viewed as a liberal democrat and in fact there has been some criticism of these comments. What the viewers need to keep in mind is that he was not advocating media censorship, rather he was just advocating the responsibility of media to be sensitive to local cultures and to avoid offending them in any way. |
"Whether the government is right or wrong, the involvement of LUMS students in protests does reflect the opinion of an influential segment of society." |
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