Ripple Effect

13 things you should know about Jihadi John 1. His name is Mohammed Emwazi 2. He is a British national of Kuwaiti origin and grew up and lived in West London 3. He is thought to have travelled to Syria in 2012 and joined the IS 4. He has a degree in computer programming 5. He was first seen in the IS propaganda video of James Foley who was beheaded in August 2014 6. He has appeared in a series of IS videos of Western hostages, all of whom were executed, some of whom Emwazi himself killed. 7. His friends say he radicalized after a planned safari to Tanzania along with 2 other friends (including a German convert) went sour 8. A former IS captive has said that Emwazi is obsessed with Somalia and the rise of Al Shabab there 9. He told friends that Britain's domestic spy service Mi5 tried to recruit him 10, In 2010, UK counterterrorism officials detained him after a trip to Kuwait and searched his belongings, 11. Following this search, Emwazi was stoppe...

Killing Dogs in Karachi  The screengrab above is from a disturbing video uploaded on Facebook by Karachi resident Hira Tareen ( https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10155291511590492&set=vb.767165491&type=2&theater ) showing a dead stray dog killed by shooters hired by municipal authorities in an upscale Karachi neighbourhood.  This practice of getting rid of Karachi's stray dogs (estimates put the city's population of such animals, in the absence of a proper survey, at around 50,000) by killing them has been going on for years but thanks to the growing use of social media in Pakistan, its barbarity has come under increasing scrutiny of late. In the past, the Karachi Metropolitan Corportationn (KMC) in charge of this issue would carry out week-long campaigns every year where they would place food laced with poison for stray dogs (the packets used to be called 'gulab jamuns', named after a local sweet delicacy). While inhumane, this was done af...

Furore in Karachi neighbourhood over killing of stray dogs The disturbing video above was uploaded on Facebook by Karachi resident Hira Tareen ( https://www.facebook.com/zaratareen?fref=photo ) . This practice of getting rid of Karachi's stray dogs (estimates put the city's population of such animals, in the absence of a proper survey, at around 50,000) by killing them has been going on for years but thanks to the growing use of social media in Pakistan, its barbarity has come under increasing scrutiny of late. In the past, the Karachi Metropolitan Corportationn (KMC) in charge of this issue would carry out week-long campaigns every year where they would place food laced with poison for stray dogs (the packets used to be called 'gulab jamuns', named after a local sweet delicacy). While inhumane, this was done after publicizing the campaign through newspaper notices and with warnings to residents to keep their pet dogs indoors. However, as the city's gov...