Six In The Morning

'New radicals': Pakistan's Generation Y battles to shape country's future

　

By Amna Nawaz, NBC News
Khalida Brohi's new life began when another girl's life ended. Born and raised in Pakistan's remote, conservative province of Balochistan, Brohi was 16 years old when the community's traditions collided with her own personal beliefs. "I found out about a girl who was murdered in the name of honor," she recalls. "I knew her and why she was killed. She wanted to marry someone she liked and she was killed just for that. When I found out about this girl, I knew that was the turning point in my life." While still a teenager, Brohi founded Sughar Women's Program, a nonprofit organization with the mission of educating women about their basic rights. In many conservative communities across Pakistan, a woman's world extends only so far as the walls of her home. Their social interactions are restricted to family members and opportunities are defined by husbands, fathers and elder brothers.

Sections of Taliban ready to accept US presence in Afghanistan – report
Moderates say they can see no prospect of victory so are prepared to negotiate – but not with the Karzai government

Julian Borger, diplomatic editor guardian.co.uk, Monday 10 September 2012
Some senior Taliban figures are ready to negotiate a ceasefire and might be ready to accept a long-term US military presence in Afghanistan as part of a comprehensive peace deal, according to a report to be published on Monday based on interviews with Taliban officials and negotiators. The report, published by the Royal United Services Institute, finds that the Taliban is determined to make a decisive break with al-Qaida as part of a settlement and is open to negotiation about education for girls, but is adamantly opposed to the constitution which it sees as a prop for President Hamid Karzai's government.

Thirteen years after the end of the war international supervision of Kosovo ends


Marie Dhumieres Belgrade Monday 10 September 2012
Thirteen years after the end of the Kosovo war, international supervision of Kosovo will end later today, even though foreign involvement and supervision in the country is far from being over. The International Steering Group (ISG), comprised of 25 countries including the UK and the US, has been supervising Kosovo’s independence since the former Serbian province unilaterally proclaimed it in 2008.

Fighting cuts off water supply to key Syrian city
September 10, 2012

David Kirkpatrick
CLASHES between the Syrian military and rebel fighters burst a main pipe that delivered drinking water to hundreds of thousands of residents of Aleppo, opposition groups said, as the UN refugee agency said more than 1.2 million Syrians still inside the country, half of them children, had been displaced from their homes. The agency, which has remained active inside the country throughout the conflict, said the number of people requiring help had doubled since July to 2.5 million, out of Syria's population of about 21 million. Another 250,000 have fled to refugee camps in neighbouring countries.

Gaddafi son’s Libya trial to be delayed by five months-official
The trial of Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam will be delayed by five months to include any relevant testimony obtained via the interrogation of Libya’s former spy chief who was arrested last week, the prosecutor general office said on Sunday.

Reuters | 10 September, 2012 08:25
Government officials said in August Saif al-Islam’s trial on charges of war crimes — the most high-profile prosecution of a figure from his late father’s entourage to date — was due to begin in September. But the arrest on Wednesday of Abdullah al-Senussi, the former spy chief known as “Gaddafi’s black box”, has pushed that date back, postponing a trial a lawyer from the International Criminal Court (ICC) has already said is unlikely to be fair.

How do you contribute to modern day slavery of human trafficking?
You may contribute to human trafficking in ways you're unaware of, suggests the US State Department in a run-down of how what Americans wear, use and consume in daily life can be affected by "modern day slavery."

September 9, 2012
To highlight the overall problem, the US State Department offers a run-down of some of the intersections of American life and global involuntary servitude. In a typical day, Americans can wear, use, and consume items made or processed by men, women, and children in what the agency calls "modern day slavery." While there is growing public awareness of fair-trade labeling that may help consumers avoid goods affected by trafficking, the State Department sponsors an interactive website –