Pearl Project

For your resilience, thank you to the brave journalists in Pakistan. This was Danny: After 9/11, he tried to check into a sold-out Pearl Continental in Peshawar, and he told me later, "Do you think they would have given me a room if I had said I was the owner?" He loved life.

Veteran journalist Robert Sam Anson died. He wrote in @VanityFair: “The why is always the hardest question for a journalist to answer and it’s what brought Danny Pearl to Pakistan. ‘I want to know why they hate us so much,’ he said." Rest In Peace. washingtonpost.com/local/obituari…

Wonderful news that @UnitedCharitabl is working with @DPearlProject in seeking #JusticeForDanielPearl. Both the #PearlProject & @DanielPearlFNDN have been vital in keeping the work of this brilliant journalist, son, husband, brother, father & jew alive, still seeking harmony & ☮️

Peshawar Madrassah terror attack can be an attempt to sabotage Afghan peace process. The madrassah is said to be under Haqqanis’ influence& blast occurred when influential cleric Rahimullah Haqqani was delivering sermon to hundreds of students.

Thank you for the welcome @UnitedCharitabl! We are honored to keep alive the legacy of investigative journalism that Daniel Pearl lived each day of his young career. We are dedicated to make sure his light continues to shines. You allow his light to shine even brighter.🙏🏽🕯️

Join us in welcoming the Pearl Project, a venture dedicated to protecting and promoting original investigative journalism, led by Asra Nomani. Let’s show them our support! Donate here: conta.cc/3juWQ5g Follow them @dpearlproject !

‼️Breaking on #JusticeForDanielPearl 😢case, via WhatsApp, which didn’t exist in 2002 when Danny was slain. Supreme Court of Pakistan🇵🇰 issues order that Sindh Govt attorney Farooq Naek will file papers “left out” & the case will resume “immediately after summer vacations.”

🚨🧶We can only wonder how Danny Pearl would be reporting the unrest in America today. He was murdered 18 yrs ago. Pakistan Supreme Court NOW hears his parents’ plea to keep in jail Omar Sheikh & 3 men convicted in his murder. Updates👇🏽 🙏🏽@AnasMallick & others for your reporting

And continue to ask all of the tough questions, do the investigative reporting, do the narratives to learn lessons, but do share your feelings with those you trust. Go to @DartCenter for resources on processing trauma and covering trauma. It was created by journalists in grief.

The Pearl Project was named for a man who left for a journey from which he didn’t return. Friday, so many did the same boarding PIA Flight 268. To ours friend esp in journalism: we are skilled at dissociation. It serves us well. Allow space now for grief. From it love will flow.

Devastated and broken today, lost my cousin "Farhan Qadir Kalwar" in unfortunate incident of PIA #PK8303 #planecrash today. Dead body has just been handed over from Jinnah Hospital Karachi. Please pray for the departed soul. May Allah rest his soul in eternal peace. Aameen

I Made Art Rest in Peace Ansar Ali Naqvi 😢 #plancrash #AnsarNaqvi @asmashirazi @WaseemBadami @ShahNafisa @BBhuttoZardari @BakhtawarBZ

Today journalist and human rights activist Azimjon Askarov turned 69 in #Kyrgyzstan jail. Happy birthday, Azimjon aka. #freeazimjon #freeaskarov

WE HAVE JUST HEARD FROM PAKISTAN HIGH COURT KAAVAN IS FREE😭😭😭😭

Hear from the best -@taimur_malik @AnooshaShaigan @SAhmadmaan. These intellectuals have not only brought the tech conversation to the forefront but have also advocated for its instillation in the Pakistan legal system time and again. Supreme! @theqanoondan

“E-courts: Opportunities and Challenges” #Qanoondan #CourtingTheLaw #InsaafCamp #ECourts

Kerala's early response to COVID-19 has kept deaths to only 4, in a population of more than 30 million. It puts the so-called "first world" to shame, and highlights the monstrous scale of avoidable deaths in Britain. google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…

Freelance journalists interested in this new *online-only* @ACOSalliance safety training course on working in hostile environments: you have two days left to apply! Application form here: acosalliance.submittable.com/submit/165888/…

After struggling to get pregnant for years, Zainab gave birth to a boy on Tuesday in #Kabul. She named him Omid, 'hope' in Dari. She spent 7 years trying to have a child, waited 9 months to meet her son and had just 4 hours with him before he was killed. reuters.com/article/us-afg…

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. —Stephen Hawking