Woman behind Pakistan’s first hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, shot dead by unknown gunmen
Source: BoingBoing
The progressive activist and organizer who ran Pakistan's first-ever hackathon and led a human rights and a peace-focused nonprofit known as The Second Floor (T2F) was shot dead today by unidentified gunmen in Karachi.
Sabeen Mahmud was leaving the T2F offices with her mother some time after 9pm on Friday evening, reports the Pakistani newspaper Dawn. She was on her way home when she was shot, the paper reports.
<snip>
From Dawn:
She died on her way to the hospital. Doctors said they retrieved five bullets from her body, which has now been shifted Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. Her mother also sustained bullet wounds and is currently being treated at a hospital; she is said to be in critical condition.
T2F had on Friday organised a talk on Balochistan: 'Unsilencing Balochistan Take 2: In Conversation with Mama Qadeer, Farzana Baloch & Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur.' Sabeen had left T2F after attending the session, when she was targeted.
T2F, described as a community space for open dialogue, was Sabeen's brainchild. In an interview with Aurora, she referred to it as an inclusive space where different kinds of people can be comfortable.
Conceived as a bookstore and café patterned after the old coffeehouse culture of Lahore and Karachi, The Second Floor or T2F, as everyone calls it says on its website that it was born out of a desire to enact transformational change in urban Pakistani society.
<snip>
Read more: http://boingboing.net/2015/04/24/woman-behind-pakistans-firs.html
samsingh
(17,571 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Thank you for posting.
villager
(26,001 posts)...on this brave woman's behalf seemed important, since it's important to thwart the "silencing" of such gunmen everywhere...
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Witness.
ck4829
(34,977 posts)This was her action which offended the cowards who murdered her.
http://www.wired.com/2013/05/pakistans-first-hackathon/
villager
(26,001 posts)Here, they have the support of the billionaire class.
villager
(26,001 posts)...mediocrity.
Good quote from her, as well.
May she rest in peace, and may the violent cowards themselves be the ones who eventually cower in fear.
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)sigh....
MADem
(135,425 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)grow into the 21st century. Blessed are the peacemakers...
I too can't let her go unremarked or unsung.
Thanks for posting
loudsue
(14,087 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)...and given the "lack of evolution" currently up against our "biospheric" crisis, that may be the very thing that does our species in...
loudsue
(14,087 posts)Oneironaut
(5,463 posts)Instead of flinging poop at each other, we shoot bullets at each other. We hurt and kill others for impossible fairy tales, and to impress an invisible man in the clouds.
We can work for a better world and make the lives of everyone in the world better, but we won't. We're too hung up on superficial nonsense.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)PassingFair
(22,434 posts)So sad. I hope the group carries on.