The author is a journalist working for Deccan Chronicle newspaper in Delhi Media commentator Aakar Patel, who also co-owns a publishing and content outsource company in Mumbai, recently wrote for The Express Tribune about the Kashmir freedom struggle and how India gets away despite its reign of oppression and coercion in the valley. For a change, Aakar is one of the voices from the Indian mainstream who infuses fresh life into the waning secular Indianess.…
Posts published in “Day: April 2, 2012”
By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, April 2 GILGIT: The Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf’s (PTI) “tsunami” seems to have washed away the party chief’s memories of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B), where people await his visit in the hope that it will help restore calm in the region, periodically inflamed by sectarian strife. “Where is Imran Khan and why can’t his tsunami come and wash away the curse of sectarianism?” said Tufail Ahmed, a resident of Gilgit, the…
By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, April 2 GILGIT: The city saw yet another tense day as rival sects exchanged heavy gunfire on Sunday evening, leaving two persons critically injured. The clashes erupted after Shia protesters ended a strike launched against a ban on a sect-based transport service by government. On the call given by Anjuman Imamia the protesters blocked roads at various locations in the city disrupting traffic. They demanded that the permission…