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...only to be later released without charge. The Independent Police Complaints Commission judged the shooting as accidental, but it left many Muslims questioning police tactics. "I don't want to speculate if the police have overreacted in this case, but you just have to look at past cases," says Beena Faridi, spokeswoman for Britain's Islamic Human Rights Commission. "By and large, it turns out that the people arrested in these raids are innocent, and what people don't remember is that it's the families who have to live with the consequences...
...Saturday, raising $3,600 for a Pakistani emergency service organization called the Edhi Foundation. Thirty-four organizations co-sponsored the event, which included speakers, dinner, and information about how to help victims of the Oct. 8 earthquake that devastated South Asia. One of the evening’s speakers, Beena Sarwar, displayed graphic images of orphans and victims of the earthquake who had missing limbs. “The situation in Pakistan is going to be so desperate that I’m going to do all I can to help,” said Sarwar, who is a fellow...
...world since September 11—at the Kennedy School of Government’s John F. Kennedy, Jr., Forum yesterday. Former American Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine moderated the panel, which included veteran pollster John Zogby, University of Maryland Professor for Peace and Development Shibley Telhami, Pakistani journalist Beena Sarwar, and Jordanian diplomat Jafar Hassan. Zogby opened the discussion by presenting recent polls that gauged attitudes toward America within Arab countries. He said that while President George W. Bush claimed that some Arabs hate the United States for its freedom and democracy, his data paints a different picture...
...looking forward to the chance to think about these issues, develop a deeper knowledge base, allow the ideas to percolate,” Beena Sarwar, one of the new fellows, wrote in an e-mail. Sarwar is an editor of The News International, based in Karachi, Pakistan...
...Sixth woman] is an amazing role that thethree of us have shared, and no one else has beena part of that role," Brandt says. "I think it'sfantastic that we're going to have a chance to doit one more time...