SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR...
Tom Watson has an update on Mukhtaran Bibi following his blog petition I posted on few days ago. I like the way it starts off with a poignant geography lesson in New York city, involving the relationship between India and Pakistan, another topic I posted on a couple of months ago:
In real estate and realpolitick, location is everything. Strange then that fate (or John Lindsay perhaps) placed the New York consulate of Pakistan on East 65th Street, nearly back-to-back with the (you guessed it) Indian consulate on East 64th Street.
Their staffs can easily converse over the back garden fence. One just north of the other; both a half a block in from Fifth Avenue and the Central Park Children's Zoo, near which today a gaggle of earnest New Yorkers rallied to support Pakistani human rights icon Mukhtaran Bibi.
He goes on to discuss the rally for Mukhtaran Bibi...she's been released by government authorities, but still not allowed to leave Pakistan...this story is to be continued...
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