Pakistan

assigned to Pakistan, realized that The Afghan rebels had little or no chance against soviet Helicopters. Along with pressure from Zia the then current leader of Pakistan, Spiers suggested that new Surface to Air missiles be supplied to the Mujahedeen when supply was adequate. In the summer of 83, Congressman Charlie Wilson, and Clarence long paid a visit to the Afghan Pakistani border where they witnessed firsthand the dire situation of the rebels, and the stressed placed on Pakistan due to the…

While these arguments do have a lot merit, most of the water sharing issues that are stemming with what Pakistan calls violation and India calls progress, are due to an ineffective and rather obsolete IWT which doesn’t clarify ownership and can’t solve geographical issues ( Michel and Panday 2003) so to say that IWT is keeping peace is controversial at best. The fact that the fairness of the treaty is today being questioned from both sides suggests that the distinction and separation between the…

just so interesting what challenges Bilbo, Farah, and Aengus faced. In the story The Other Side Of The Sky Farah Ahmedi got her leg blown off in an explosion she knew that she had to get out of Afghanistan. She was trying to cross the border to Pakistan but the guards were driving them back. As they got…

but actually it was formed in 1945 when members like Shabir Ahmad Usmani broke from the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind to support All India Muslim League by joining the Pakistan cause in the Indian subcontinent. Its first president was Allama Shabir Ahmed Usmani. Now it is an Assembly of Islamic Clergy and religious political block in Pakistan. But, due to differences on policy matters JUI split into two bolcks (Mawlana Hazarvi & Mufti Mahmood) in 1969, which further broke into JUI-F and JUI-S…

of six moved from Islamabad, Pakistan by air with hopes of better lifestyle of the family. Tanzeela and Suhail Bhutto arrived here with their three sons and one daughter. The family already knew a lot about Canada’s lifestyle as Tanzeela’s siblings had already been living in Canada for long period of time and the family had visited Canada several times before permanently staying in the country. Suhail was an executive engineer and worked for the government of Pakistan , whereas Tanzeela was a…

Malala Yousafzai a young woman who has inspired the world to help her in the fight against the taliban in pakistan. In her fight for equality malala was shot in the head while on her way to her beloved school. Also she has been displayed as a criminal on the radio by the taliban. And her family was threatened for standing up against the taliban her father for speaking out and her for continuously defining them and desiring education. Now malala is an international symbol of peaceful protest, has…

you are nothing but garbage. This is what it was like to live in Pakistan and Afghanistan when the Taliban came to power. In reality, they were very controlling and cruel and this was portrayed very accurately in the novel Under the Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Fisher Staples. Najmah and her family, as well as Nusrat, are treated unfairly and are largely affected by the Taliban in the story. People in the real world who lived in Pakistan and Afghanistan during the Taliban’s reign were also treated…

fighting against it because they did not have the technology to properly inform people of the true dangers they were putting the children in. Malala however does have access to technology and is able to spread her message and experience far outside of Pakistan and the Middle East entirely. The technology aspect of life today resulted in her being able to escape her fate as an oppressed woman in the Middle East, get the medical attention to keep her alive after being shot, and live on to spread…

More than 50 million girls around the world face the dilemma of not being allowed a basic education. Malala Yousafzai is one of these girls. She began speaking out publicly against the Taliban who was attacking girl’s schools in Swat, Pakistan. She began to gain more publicity with her speeches and blogs. At the age of 14 Malala was targeted by the Taliban who shot her in the head on the way home from school. Malala survived the attack and has become even more vocal for women’s and children’s…

Family Heritage: My Pakistani family history consists of the extended family system. My grandparents had 10 children, in the Middle-class neighborhood at Lahore, Pakistan. My grandfather was a devoted father, in addition to my grandmother who was a loving mother. When she got married to my grandfather, she was 15 years of age. My father was the first born in the family, moreover, they had 9 more children. My grandparents had the total of 4 boys and 5 girls; their third daughter died of…