- including our coverage of the 2008 Mumbai attacks; the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka and the 2008 Pakistan elections.
That's a video of Salmaan Taseer, the governor of the Pakistani province of Punjab (NOTE TO U.S. JOURNOS: there's an Indian state with the same name) that I happened to tweet about around midnight, NY time, on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. I went to bed and woke up to the news that he had been killed by his own security guard for speaking out against the blasphemy laws, particularly.
I posted the video, which was created by YouTube's CitizenTube division, because I was struck by how eloquently and passionately he talked about his troubled country. I had no idea he was already dead as I posted the video.
Below are links to various parts of the coverage, including opinion pieces. Please post your thoughts and reading suggestions in the comments section below.
SAJA is hosting a live webcast on Thursday, Jan. 7. We'll be joined by veteran Pakistan watchers in the U.S. and Pakistan (as well as those who knew him well) and we'll take your calls live.
{SAMPLE TWEET: @sajaHQ webcast on Taseer killing: Fri, 1pm ET; 11pm Pak time: http://bit.ly/sajataseer #sajataseer }
SAJA WEBCAST ABOUT THE KILLING OF SALMAAN TASEER & THE FUTURE OF PAKISTAN
Friday, Jan. 7, 2011
1-2 pm NY time
11-11:59 pm Pakistan time
see local time around the world: http://timeanddate.com/s/1xtz
==> VIA COMPUTER: Listen live or later to a recording at http://tobtr.com/s/1471340
(you can set an e-mail reminder for yourself at that link)
We will be discussing the assassination of Salmaan Taheer, the governor of Punjab province and what it means for the future of Pakistan, US-Pakistan relations, the war on terror and much more. We'll be joined by veteran Pakistan watchers in the U.S. and Pakistan (as well as those who knew him well) and we'll take your calls live.
SPEAKERS (more to come):
- [from NYC] Kiran Khalid (@acereporter), is a producer in CNN's NYC bureau and was earlier a producer in the Islamabad bureau; she directed "We Are Not Free," a documentary about press freedom in Pakistan; she is a former SAJA Board member.
- [from Karachi] Beena Sarwar (@beenasarwar) is one of Pakistan's best-known journalists. She is a writer and documentary filmmaker and the editor of special projects for Aman ki Asha, Jang Group.
- Mosharraf Zaidi ( @mosharrafzaidi) writes a weekly column for The News in Pakistan. His articles also appear a variety of publications including Al-Shorouk in Egypt (in Arabic), the Nation, the Times of India, the Mumbai Mirror, the National, and the Wall Street Journal. He is a frequent contributor to television and radio, including CNN, Al-Jazeera, NPR, Geo News and Dunya TV.
- [from Islamabad] Fasi Zaka (@fasi_zaka) is one of the top talk show hosts, op-ed writers, and one of the most listened to (not just "heard"), people on radio, TV, and the press. A former Rhodes Scholar, he's known for his use of humor in covering Pakistani politics, life and society.
- Fahd Husain, executive director, news, Dunya TV, Pakistan; senior Pakistani journalist and TV
presenter. - [from vacation in Texas] Ron Moreau, a veteran foreign correspondent, is Newsweek's Af-Pak correspondent for the past nine years and has previously have covered Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.
- [from DC] Sadanand Dhume (@ dhume01), WSJ columnist, fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of "My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist."
Moderated by Prof. Sree Sreenivasan (@sree), Columbia J-school & Annie Khan (@anniealikhan), a former TV anchor and producer in Karachi and now a student at Columbia J-school.
Your comments and suggestions are welcome.
COVERAGE OF THE ASSASSINATION:
OPINION PIECES IN US PRESS:
- NYT unsigned editorial: "A Brave Man Killed"
- SAJAer Sadanand Dhume's essay in WSJ, "The End of Jinnah's Pakistan"
- WSJ's Mathew Kaminski: "The Troubled Heart of Pakistan"
- send us more!
