The Practical Nomad blog: Kashmir

Tuesday, 13 December 2005

Another earthquake on Northern Pakistan border

There's been another major earthquake yesterday affecting much of the same region of northern Pakistan and the Pakistan-administered portion of Kashmir where hundreds of thousands of people are still homeless in the mountains and unlikely to survive the winter following the larger earthquake 8 October 2005. The epicentre of yesterday's... (...Read Entire Entry)

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Saturday, 4 December 2004

Global day of action for Bhopal

Today I attended this film showing and discussion in San Francisco as part of the global day of action for Bhopal on the 20th anniversary of the pesticide-factory explosion that released a cloud of poisonous gases over the city of Bhopal, India, killing some ten thousand or more people, injuring... (...Read Entire Entry)

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Thursday, 30 September 2004

India and Pakistan may allow each other's tourists

Going against the trend being set by the USA toward increasing governmental obstacles to international travel, Pakistan and India agreed earlier this month that they would begin issuing tourist visas to each other's citizens -- for the first time since the British colonies and feudal fiefdoms in South Asia were... (...Read Entire Entry)

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Monday, 9 August 2004

"Crossing The Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India"

On Satrurday evening I attended the Bay Area premiere and a discussion with the filmmaker, other activists, and Kashmiri, Pakistani, and Indian community members of an impressive new documentary film by Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mann, Crossing The Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan, India. It's remarkable enough that even progressive South Asians... (...Read Entire Entry)

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Monday, 20 October 2003

Self-determination and human rights in Kashmir

I've added a new section of my Web site to help explain why I care about Kashmir. I've posted some of the articles I've written for peace movement publications -- they are mostly a few years old, but should still provide some background information. Sadly, the situation remains largely the... (...Read Entire Entry)

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