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Yes to Sports-No to Drugs, 27th April 2008
About this event: “Yes to Sports-No to Drugs"

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27th April 28, 2008:

Manzoor Ahmad the co-manager of “Yes to Sports-No to Drugs” Project, called off a small meeting before going off to the ground where we were having our ceremony. He wanted to make sure the things that were supposed to be in the ceremony spot were delivered or not. The meeting proved that we are having all the arrangements really smoothly.

I couldn’t make it to the ceremony because of something but Manzoor was there and he ensured everything goes nice and great.

Yes to Sports-No to Drugs, was something which was really famous by now, everyone that is anyone in Khuzdar knew about the events taking place these three days and it made us proud to have to hear people talking about the project.

The final day started just wonderful as the young volunteers made there way to the same sports ground making things ready for the chief guests to arrive, the impatient young people gathered around enjoying the superb opportunity of finding something different then usual.

Things were all set as Manzoor Ahmad took hold of his place and announced a cricket tournament of some famous teams of Khuzdar. The match was wonderful, and caught so much of attention and

when it was finished manzoor was all ready to initiate the ceremony formally when a person came over to him and asked that he has to share something. He was happily allowed and he began his story, he was actually a reporter in a local news paper and had heard about the event, being from Khuzdar himself, he was hearing the inspiration that was in the air from days and all was against drugs, he said he used to smoke and gave a second thought to his habit when the PDI campaign came in the scene. “Now I have made up my mind, I will not smoke from now on”, as he said this, a great big cheer went up on the ground. Our first ever result of the event was speaking the words of success.

The ceremony was a hit, the chief guest who was Program officer FM Baluchistan, Sultan Shahwani and Mr. Naz Brohi, Chairperson Press Club, Khuzdar. They addressed the young people of the negative aspects of drugs and distributed cricket items to more then 50 teams. Some of the youth came over promising never to touch chalwas or gutqas again, and in the last a big cheer ended the ceremony which was “Yes To Sports-No to Drugs”!!!!



April 29, 2008 | 4:22 AM Comments  0 comments

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Yes to Sports-No to Drugs, 26th April 2008
About this event: “Yes to Sports-No to Drugs"

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26th April 28, 2008:

We got to the abandoned ground near the community which was to be made into a sports ground for youth of Khuzdar. As we were just planning on how things are going to be carried out a whole troop of youth were coming towards us holding brooms, waste bags and other cleaning stuff.

Our amazement was something to behold. Soon all the young volunteers were working together and cleaning the area with enthusiasm and spirit. It was so wonderful as the kids smiled and worked together for a same cause, to get all of themselves a sports ground which will be there best place to hang out.

The two young leaders were giving out instructions and helping out in the stuff, a lot of kids joined a while later. It all seemed more like a ceremony, where everyone was happy working together.

Just before the afternoon, the ground was all ready, it didn’t look much like a reall sports ground but the hard work has given great results and the place was an open space to play any sport. Everyone was smiling, and feeling the same victory of effort and pleasure of doing something together.

April 29, 2008 | 4:21 AM Comments  0 comments

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"Yes to Sports-No to Drugs" 25th April 2008
About this event: “Yes to Sports-No to Drugs"

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I Khalida Brohi called Mr. Manzoor Ahmed the co-manager of “Yes to Sports-No to Drugs” and the three young leaders of the event, Sajjad Brohi, (9years) Atta Muhammad (12 years), and Farida Khan(14 years) and arranged an urgent meeting in the morning in the office of Participatory Development Initiatives(PDI).

It was finalized that we have 30 young volunteers that are all ready to implement the project but still we needed to check things for the last to make sure our service day that is 26th April will go finely. It looked like that everything was ready, the brochures, banners and the cricket items. We had so much of time spare to us, Farida suggested we should not waste 25th of April and would do something rather interesting and then it struck me, we had actually published 1000 brochures instead of 500. I suggested that we should go around the local community of Khuzdar and distribute the brochures to the local youth.

Manzoor Ahmad accompanied with the three young leaders went around in schools meeting with there principals and telling them about the campaign and distributing brochures. The amazing thing was the school principals requested if their students could participate in the event too, we couldn’t have resisted that and promised some of their students join in the cleaning event that is the service day on 26th.

I met with the young girls of Khuzdar by going off there homes and meeting them in small groups and talking to them about the wrong impacts of the drug they use called the huqa.
The other volunteers scattered around town meeting people and informing them of the campaign and what’s it about and distributing brochures.

Finally I met with the crew in the afternoon and we shared the whole day with each other. It was really inspiring the way the young people from such a conservative community responded in enthusiastic manner. Our spirits were high and we were all looking forward to making this GYSD in Khuzdar a hit!

April 28, 2008 | 2:49 AM Comments  0 comments

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Honour Killing: the crime denied
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By Khalida Brohi, 2007 Action Partner Pakistan

The UN reports that more than 1,000 women are killed in Pakistan in the name of 'honour' every year. According to the latest survey in year 2007 1,317 women in Pakistan were killed in the name of honour, about thousands which are not registered. The law seems to be deliberately blind to these incidents and there hasn’t been any serious action taken on this. Read all about how Khalida Brohi is helping to end silence on this issue within Pakistan and internationally.

Violence against women exists in many forms, affecting the women mentally and physically. But the worst form which snatches away the lives of thousands of women each year is honour killing. It is the name given to the crime carefully wrapped under the veil of customs which is neither Islamic, nor any other religion might promote it. Honour killing is the inhuman act which even though it is present worldwide, has been denied existence.

The hideous custom is a dark reality in Pakistan , from thousand years, women suffer in the form of death, which to their men is restoration of there honour. Women slightly suspected of conducting an illicit relationship, face hideous forms of death. They are stoned, bullet shot, beaten until dead, and attacked by axes, by their brothers, fathers, husband and even cousins.

Women keep on being a victim to the vicious custom which is more of a business used to take over lands, other women, solve money matters and to ensure men still have the power against women.

“S was killed by her brother just because he had a fight with the neighbourhood boy and killing his sister gave him a chance to say that they both had an illicit relationship”.

“A girl was brutally murdered by her father on “suspicion” of illicit relationships in Sukkar this February. The father chopped the body and interred it without a proper burial ceremony.
The accused Pandi Jatoi used an axe to cut the body into pieces. The girl cried and tried to prove her innocence by holding the Holy Quran.

Police expressed their ignorance about the incident. However, some sources in the police confirmed that their colleagues were deliberately concealing the matter”.

The killing of a woman in a community leaves the others psychologically threatened. Under the customs the killer ought to be more proud and satisfied to have done such an honourable act. The question is, what kind of an honour is it to kill a mother, daughter, sister and wife?
There is no answer, in fact there hasn’t been any answer to it at all, women keep on being the slaughter animals used when needed. Criminals run free and the crime is denied with the name of honour.

Now, when we believe the world is taking a turn in modernization, there are still women who fear day and night they might be killed on no basis at all. Women live in the shadow of weapons to their heads, they are slaves to their own households. People decide whom to kill and when, and find even the late service of dinner a reason to thrash the women with axes.

Honour Killing does not have any honour in it; it is just killing and plain killing. It’s a criminal act and must be regarded as such. The law, state and matters should wake up and see what’s happening to women who don’t even have a voice to call for help. There is no estimated end to this crime, but the end is possible if the matter is taken seriously not just an issue to be talked about on International women’s rights day.

Khalida Brohi