Doctors Gave You A Second Life, Malala!
Remember Malala Yousafzai, the pakistani 14-year old girl shot in the head by the taliban? Well, she’s better now and has made her first public statement since the attack: In a short video recorded in...
View ArticleFacebook Did What?
Facebook really screwed up this time: Mr. Zuckerberg and Ms. Sandberg, Thank you for your many positive accomplishments. Please reverse the policy under which Facebook shut down a non-violent page of...
View ArticlePakistan’s Antivax Go (More) Nuts!
They keep on killing people: Gunmen have killed two anti-polio health workers in north-west Pakistan, police said on Sunday, in the latest violence directed at efforts to eradicate the endemic disease...
View ArticleTwitter supports censorship in Pakistan
Twitter has agreed to comply with censorship laws in Pakistan: The blocking of these tweets in Pakistan — in line with the country-specific censorship policy Twitter unveiled in 2012 — is the first...
View ArticleMalala gets the Peace Nobel
This is awesome: She “has already fought for several years for the right of girls to education and has shown by example that children and young people, too, can contribute to improving their own...
View ArticlePakistani private schools hate Malala
Guess what kids are learning in Pakistan — ungratefulness: A network of private schools on Monday unleashed a scathing public attack on Malala Yousafzai, the teenage Nobel laureate, in the most...
View ArticleA Pakistan law worth replicating
Usually, I won’t cheer for Pakistani laws, but this one makes a lot of sense: Hundreds of parents in northwestern Pakistan were arrested and jailed on charges of endangering public security after...
View ArticleThe BBC asks what’s the right punishment for blasphemy
This week, Pakistan asked Facebook and Twitter to help them censor blasphemous posts on their respective social networks. In Pakistan, blasphemy is punishable by the death penalty. The Asian BBC...
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