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The fall of Swat pains me as my previous posts on Swat have shown here. As a Pakistani I feel ashamed of how the state has sold Swat to savages  to so-called sharia rule. A video has surfaced on the horrors of Swat and I am posting that video today knowing that it will pain [...]

The people of Swat and the legend that is Ahmed Faraz are never far from my thoughts. After the death and destruction engineered by the maniac Mullah, hope hangs in the air and at the mercy of the gun-toting goons of Fazlullah. The words of the great Ahmed Faraz in his nazm‘ Mat Qatl Karo [...]

The brave people of Swat are smiling again after the government negotiated a deal with Sufi Mohammed, the chief of the Tanzim Nifaz Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) to implement Nizam-e-Adl in Swat and the wider Malakand division. The TSNM under the leadership of Sufi Mohammed has led a peace rally to Swat and it was a picture [...]

The title of this post is inspired by the title of a John Pilger documentary  titled ‘Palestine is still the issue’. Unlike John Pilger who has worked tirelessly for the Palestinian people, all I can do for my Swati brothers and sisters is to fulminate from the confines of this website. The News newspaper deserves [...]

The good news is that Rehman Malik has promised as per his glorious name some ‘reham’ for the suffering Swati people declaring that peace will be restored in Swat in two weeks. Furthermore a high-level meeting chaired by Mr 10% in the Presidency promises that the writ of the state will be enforced in Swat. [...]

A picture says a thousand words they say, if so then the above pictures say many thousands. On the left is the one and only ‘Sunglasses’ Sherry Rehman and on the right the Swat Taliban’s notice banning women to enter markets. The contrast says it all for on one hand we have the suave Sherry [...]

The title of this post is a question that should stop you in your tracks. It is a question and a statement that should make you shudder at the same time . It is borrowed and inspired by a comment I received from Baber Khairi in an email who like me is aghast at the [...]