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Sana Saleem at Mystified Justice comments on ‘Wake Up Pakistan', a new nationalistic campaign spearheaded by Zaid Hamid targeting the youth: “Pakistan should wake up, but not to a new dawn of racism and bigotry.”
Five Rupees reports that two more suicidal blasts targeting Shia mourners rocked busy streets of Karachi taking scores of lives.
Teeth Maestro comments on the Dr. Aafia Siddiqui Verdict : “I and many Pakistanis may not actually like the overall decision, but we must draw the line. [..] Being a staunch believer in supremacy of judiciary we must accept this verdict, without possibly burning down the American Embassy in sheer rage.”
CARICOM member states make donations to the Haiti earthquake relief effort: Repeating Islands has the details.
Chanux at Prove that real but not virtual blog misses something on the 62nd Independence day of Sri Lanka.
Repeating Islands acknowledges the passing of Jamaican painter Albert Huie.
The students of the Dhaka Project, an organization which provides free education and health-care for slum children of Dhaka, participated in a community program called “lets clean Bangladesh” - reports the project blog.
Barbados Free Press reports on a traffic death charge that took 11 years to reach to trial: “Meanwhile the accused…racked up almost two hundred traffic convictions and up until yesterday was still driving on our roads and endangering our friends and loved ones.”
YardFlex.com reports that Usain Bolt and Veronica Campbell-Brown are “the only Jamaican and Caribbean athletes” who made the prestigious Track and Field News magazine's Athletes of the Decade list.
“I learned that children are naturally giving and spontaneous and if we are not willing to accept some of the ‘wild energy' of our children and if we continue to treat our schools as warehouses, then we should be prepared to accept the death of their imagination”: Jamaican litblogger Geoffrey Philp sharesthe valuable lessons that children have taught him.
I strongly believe this is the real reason for the Mauritanian government striking a deal to settle the dispute with...
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==> As Africans we need to let go of our victimhood, inferiority complex & acceptance of the mediocre. We deserve...