[Reader-list] Fwd: What is wrong with Asma Jahangir?

[svati shah]

could someone please forward some background on this?  Did Asma Jahangir
release a statement about this?
Svati Shah

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Ajmal Kamal <ajmalkamal at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ajmal Kamal <ajmalkamal at gmail.com>
> Date: Mar 12, 2008 12:15 PM
> Subject: Re: What is wrong with Asma Jahangir?
> To: Sahar Shafqat <sshafqat at yahoo.com>, Abira Ashfaq <abira_a at hotmail.com
> >,
> Gouri Patwardhan <gourip at gmail.com>, All talk Pakvoices <
> All at talk.pakvoices.net>
>
> We must convey our feelings of shock, disgust and outrage to Asma
> Jahangir.
> There is no way she was not aware of the symbolic significance to going to
> the Chief Minister's house in Gandhinagar and meeting the man who not only
> presided over the massacre of 2002 but whose administration did everything
> to stop the process through which the victims could get relief and
> justice.
> Asma Jahangir is absolutely wrong in saying the the state government of
> Gujarat is taking measures to ensure that the victims could get relief.
> The
> said fascist government has consistently been taking measures in the
> opposite direction. If Asma Jahangir cares for her credibility, she must
> take back that disgusting approval which flies in the face of facts. These
> facts have been put together in the course of the past six years by
> India's
> brave civil society and media. I feel deeply embarrased and ashamed that
> the
> leading light of our country's human rights activists has tried to negate
> the work of Indian human rights activits and journalists. Asma must act to
> save her lifetime's work from getting destroyed.
>
> On 3/12/08, Sahar Shafqat <sshafqat at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > from another list that i'm on. i like the way abira put it. we're
> planning
> > to write a letter of protest to her...
> >
> > *abira ashfaq <abira_a at hotmail.com>* wrote:
> >
> > From: abira ashfaq <abira_a at hotmail.com>
> > To: <youngrestless at googlegroups.com>
> > Subject: RE: wtf is wrong with asma??
> > Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:29:40 +0000
> >
> >
> > if it is possible for a person's persona and all she signifies to be
> > shattered in one sec in one picture...this is it.  agree we should
> craft.
> >
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