Amplify the word even if you are not available yourself, lets see how many people are interested in a meetup.
We can start with Islamabad and then perhaps export it to Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi?
Feel free to reblog with suggestions for venue, time and agenda.
Let’s meet up Pakistanis!
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Why not! What is one more Muslim country?
Sen. John McCain said Sunday that military action to protect civilians in Syria might be considered now that NATO’s air campaign in Libya is ending.
However, President Obama’s administration has made clear it has no appetite for military intervention…
Oh, Mr. McCain. You fucking idiot.
Areas of Balochistan and Swat have been under siege for a good 5 years now.
Every day you hear about bombings and bloodshed and attacks.
Maybe from the outside, it seems like actual terrorists are being killed.
Bullshit.
I’ve met people fleeing for their lives. People who’s entire families were wiped out because of the drone attacks. People who lost everything. But these people weren’t terrorists. These people were the civilians. Who’s loved ones have been marked down in some fucking records as ‘collateral damage’. Very few so-called terrorists have been taken out. Infrastructure, the environment and lives are being destroyed for no real reason. And now you want to take this to Syria?
Well, may God the United States have mercy on Syria.
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So he’s dead, huh?
Finally caught him?
Yet, people are angry. Because NATO forces shouldn’t have been involved.
I understand what they mean, but seriously?? Most Libyans are deliriously happy that Gaddafi’s authoritarian regime has finally ended. I doubt they care that NATO ‘intruded’. They are free and that is what the problem is.
In class the other day, my teacher was actually sad. And a friend of mine was said that all the ‘Muslim nations’ leaders are being killed [citing the hanging of Saddam Hussain]. Just because they are Muslim Leaders doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have been brought to justice. I am not condoning murder: in fact, I think Gaddafi should have been given a fair trial. However, he could not have expected anything more. Forty two years of repression. That’s madness. That’s a lifetime.
What is really pissing me off is the fact that people keep saying that the US is interfering in something they shouldn’t.
Fine. But why do you care? The LIBYANS are fighting this war. If they have accepted help from NATO or the US, it is not your place to judge. They are the ones who are making the decisions: I really doubt they were coerced into accepting the USA’s help.
That’s about it. Just needed to get this off my chest.
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The Ali Forney Center will host a rally tonight in Union Square at 6 p.m. to raise awareness about the thousands of homeless LGBT youth in New York. The Center is the largest center for homeless LGBT youth in the country.
According to Wil Fisher, Director of Communications and Special Events at the Ali Forney Center, LGBT youth in New York are up to eight times more likely than straight youth to experience homelessness. There are an estimated 4000 homeless youth (roughly 40-50% of whom identify as LGBT) on the streets every night, butGovernor Cuomo’s budget cuts last April slashed funding for homeless youth shelters by 50%.
The Center has since “been scrambling to fill holes in funding as cuts are threatened,” but Fisher said they have “been fortunate thanks to a number of corporations and private donors and no programs have been shut down. We currently have 57 beds and are adding another 20 soon…The thing is that we are looking to expand. We have a wait list of over 100 per night,” he added.
If you’re in the area, get out there! These kids are our brothers and sisters, and they need us now.
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This weekend in Syria. In this Al Jazeera report Sunday, a citizen video shows a man, Jamal Abdullah Fadel, shot dead while trying to recover the body of another man, Tareq Alahdab. Warning: graphic images. [syriaandsyria]
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NPR is reporting that U.S. and Afghan soldiers have allegedly forced innocent villagers into a gruesome Death March:
Villagers from a violent part of southern Afghanistan say that Afghan troops, along with several American mentors, forced civilians to march ahead of soldiers on…
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(via azspot)
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REPORTING FROM KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai’s office on Monday sought to distance him from controversial remarks in a television interview aired over the weekend in which he asserted that Afghanistan would side with Pakistan in a hypothetical war against the United States.
The presidential palace said Karzai’s comments, made in an interview with the Pakistani television station Geo, had been “misinterpreted.”
A spokesman for Karzai, Siamak Herawi, said the president had not intended any slight to the Western governments that have spent billions of dollars shoring up the Afghan administration during the 10-year war that has claimed the lives of at least 1,817 American troops.
“The media misinterpreted [Karzai’s] speech,” he said, adding that the president had been trying to express solidarity with Pakistan for having taken in millions of Afghan refugees during decades of war and the subsequent rule of the Taliban movement.
Western military officials and diplomats publicly played down the significance of Karzai’s comments, even while privately expressing varying degrees of bafflement and dismay.
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The world’s population is due to hit 7bn this October. Use the box below to find out the world’s population on your birth date, and how different countries were growing at that time
Let’s play a game: Put your number on the post as you reblog it. For us, it’s 4,383,293,077.
My number: 5,744,708,335
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