The 2016 expanded edition of Aboard the Democracy Train has been successfully launched in Pakistan with a new sub-title, `Pakistan Tracks the Threat Within.’ The book brings readers up to speed with significant changes that have occurred in the region over the last few years. Beginning with the May 2011 raid by US Navy Seals that avowedly snatched and killed …
No Monster Can Snatch Jawaid Bhutto from Our Hearts & Minds (Report)
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About The Author
Nafisa Hoodbhoy was staff reporter for the English daily Dawn newspaper from 1984-2000. As the only woman reporter under Gen Zia in Karachi, Pakistan, she went on to write thousands of news reports and lead articles on the nation’s transition to democracy, alternately spear-headed by civilian leaders Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif. During this period, she researched and featured in video films on women..... Read More
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About The Book
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
~Thomas Carlyle, CharacteristicsThis website gives a glimpse into my motivation for writing ‘Aboard the Democracy Train’ – on why millions of people in Pakistan have been thwarted from bringing about meaningful change inside the country. As the only woman reporter in Pakistan’s leading newspaper, Dawn ....
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The author’s interview to NBC television was recorded at the home of mutual friends in Virginia, a day after the heinous incident against Jawaid Bhutto. In it, she speaks about how the couple had elected to live in Anacostia, DC since 2003. They kept good relations with all the neighbors, believing in the essential goodness of human nature regardless of …
Barely a month before the attack on him, Jawaid sat in his living room, blissfully unaware of the evil that was being plotted underneath our condo unit. After decades of hard struggle, the `American dream,’ of finding work in one city.. and supporting near and dear ones.. had become a reality. The tranquility on his face was emblematic of the …
Like yellow falling leaves on a warm summers eve, Flutter and fall on fading heaps, The winds of time swirl them aloft, And light them to the eye in sunny beams, So memories flutter before the eye, Of past tears, And past laughter, And I quiver like a boat tied to the shore, That can glide on roving waves no …
I wandered through the earth, My heart was heavy with yearning, My spirit scoured the angry seas to find a sorrow bearer, The earth I tread shall cover soon my unfulfilled soul, For death is the only peace, That follows the torture of desire, I wandered lone in search of God through the blindness of the earth, If the earth …
ON March 1, a burst of gunfire snuffed out the life of a gentle soul in Washington D.C. He was a social worker helping the mentally challenged and drug addicts. He was Jawaid Bhutto, a teacher of philosophy and a progressive scholar in Pakistan before he moved to the US. I knew him as my friend and the husband of …
HYDERABAD: Speakers at a condolence reference paid rich tribute to philosopher and scholar Jawaid Bhutto, who was gunned down in Washington on March 2, and called him a great asset of Sindh. They were speaking at the programme organised by Progressive Writers Association and Awami Workers Party at Sindhi Language Authority on Friday. Late Jawaid’s widow and writer Nafisa Hoodbhoy …
The gathering in Karachi Arts Council was as untraditional as Jawaid Bhutto’s life had been. The portrait of him looking down on the gathering was the face of a thinker, a philosopher who reflected in the most intense way on the meaning of life. But Jawaid was no hardnosed intellectual. Instead, he was a `peoples person,’ loving the human spirit …
