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

[TaraPrakash]

I doubt.
Even if she did, perhaps she is being quoted out of context.
There are forces in Pakistan and also in India who won't mind maligning her 
image, some for political reasons, others on communal grounds.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "svati shah" <svasreally at gmail.com>
To: "Ajmal Kamal" <ajmalkamal at gmail.com>
Cc: <reader-list at sarai.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Fwd: What is wrong with Asma Jahangir?


> 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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>>
>>
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>> Publishing House, Bookshop and Film Club
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>> Pakistan.
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