Tag Archive: Pakistan

Dec 19 2012

Three more

Three more anti-polio campaigners killed dead in Pakistan. That’s showing them. That makes 8 this week. Wednesday’s attacks all took place in the restive western frontier province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – one just outside the city of Peshawar and two others in the town of Charsadda. Two men and a woman have been killed. The …

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Dec 18 2012

They would regret helping the “infidel” campaign against polio

First, do no harm. First, don’t be evil. It’s strange how easily a lot of people lose sight of that basic thought, or never entertain it in the first place. What would be high on a list of harms not to do? Killing people who are working to prevent polio in a country where 35 …

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Aug 30 2012

Law in a theocracy

Apparently in Pakistan, if you’re a lawyer and you think a case might not go your way, the thing to do is to muse aloud about people who got murdered in similar circumstances if you know what I mean wink wink nudge nudge. At least if you see yourself as a lawyer for Team God. …

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Jun 06 2012

Singing dancing sluts killed for singing and dancing

Well now I feel sick. Last week there were news reports that four women and two men in Pakistan had been sentenced to death for singing and dancing at a wedding. Yes that’s right; singing and dancing at a wedding. It’s fornication, you see, because they were mixed. Only they weren’t – the photographs and …

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