Sabeen Mahmud

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Sabeen Mahmud (born June 20, 1975 ; died April 24, 2015 ) ( Urdu صبین محمود) was a Pakistani human rights activist and leader of a social non-profit organization. She was the founder and director of The Second Floor (T2F) cafe in Karachi and president of The Indus Entrepreneurs' office in Karachi. On April 24, 2015, she was shot dead by two unidentified shooters. On May 20, 2015, the mastermind behind Mahmud's murder was arrested.

Life

Sabeen Mahmud campaigned against injustice and discrimination; she told Dawn newspaper that her greatest dream was "to use the Internet to change the world for the better." She founded PeaceNiche, an organization that provided a social platform for the common good.

Mahmud also founded an IT company called Bitsonline and hosted the first hackathon in Karachi. In 2006 she opened The Second Floor, a pak tea house-style café that was the meeting place for public discussions, film premieres, writing competitions, stand-up comedy and live theater. Their hackathon was designed to bring people from different disciplines together to find solutions to social problems in Pakistan. Mahmud invited people from the public like author Ayesha Siddiqa , who wrote a controversial book about funding the military, which led Pakistani intelligence to contact T2F.

In 2013 she told Wired magazine that she didn't want armed personal protection in the T2F: “I said that's the price you have to pay for a public space. I don't want the people at the entrance to be checked by an armed person because of the fear that is moving away. ”She further quoted Chomsky:“ It can be dangerous and bad things can happen. But you can't let fear take control or you will never achieve anything. ”There was international coverage of her work.

death

In the evening hours of April 24, 2015, Mahmud was fatally hit by two unknown shooters near the Defense Housing Authority and the Karachi library on his way home from a seminar she led. According to a police spokesman, the murder was a targeted killing . Her mother was also injured in the attack and treated in the Aga Khan Hospital. The seminar, Unsilencing Balochistan (Take 2) (Breaking the Silence of Balochistan, 2nd attempt) took place in the T2F Café and focused on the Balochistan region . Among the speakers was the Balochist activist Abdul Qadeer Baloch, also known as Mama Qadeer.

According to Mama Qadeer's testimony, Sabeen and her mother left the event shortly after it was over. The event was postponed from April 21st to April 24th and a different location was found as the organizers had received death threats beforehand. Sindh Minister Qaim Ali Shah condemned the killing and opened an investigation into the incident. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif expressed his condolences to the family and requested a report from the investigating authorities. The activist's death was shocked by the media, society and social platforms. Nasreen Jalil , Mosharraf Zaidi , Altaf Hussain , Fasi Zaka , Raza Rumi , Hamid Mir , Arif Alvi , Fatima Bhutto , Taimur Rahman , Kamila Shamsie , Malala Yousafzai , Sharmila Farooqi and others expressed their condolences. General Asim Bajwa, director general of the Pakistani secret service , condemned the murder in the strongest terms and assured that his agency would provide assistance in catching the perpetrators. The Taliban took no responsibility for the attack. A symposium in memory of Mahmud was held at the Islamabad Literature Festival in 2015.

On May 20, Minister Qaim Ali Shah announced that the mastermind behind Mahmud's murder had been arrested. Syed Aziz also confessed to being involved in a bus attack in Karachi that killed 46 people in May 2015.

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  1. ↑ Sabeen Mahmud Director T2F gunned down in Karachi . In: TheNews.com.pk . April 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i T2F director Sabeen Mehmud shot dead in Karachi . In: The Express Tribune , April 24, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2015. 
  3. ↑ a b c Arrested Safoora attack mastermind behind Sabeen's murder: Sindh CM . In: The Express Tribune , May 20, 2015. Retrieved May 21, 2015. 
  4. ↑ Saad Shafqat: PROFILE: 'SABEEN MAHMUD': Striving For Better . In: Dawn . September 18, 2008.
  5. ↑ T2F: A pursuit of the heart . In: Tribune blog . August 7, 2010.
  6. ↑ Sabeen Mahmud: Creative Karachi: Establishing of Arts & Culture Center for the World's Most Rapidly Growing City (Innovations Case Narrative: PeaceNiche and The Second Floor) . In: Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization . 8, No. 3-4, 2013, ISSN  1558-2477 , pp. 27-41. doi : 10.1162 / INOV_a_00185 .
  7. ^ A b Meet the Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon . Wired. May 15, 2013.
  8. ↑ Second helpings at a tea house model . In: The Independent . November 27, 2012.
  9. ↑ Sabeen Mahmud - a profile . In: DAWN . April 24, 2015.
  10. ↑ Meet Sabeen Mahmud, a Woman Trying to Change Pakistan One Line of Code at a Time . In: The Mary Sue . May 15, 2013.
  11. ↑ Pakistani Cafe Is Oasis In Desert Of Civil Discourse . NPR. 5th January 2013.
  12. ↑ Tech Guru Sabeen Mahmud: 'Fear Is Just a Line in Your Head' . In: Inc . May 15, 2013.
  13. ↑ Pakistani activist Sabeen Mahmud shot dead in Karachi . In: BBC , April 24, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2015. 
  14. ↑ Pakistani rights activist Sabeen Mahmud shot dead . In: Al Jazeera , April 25, 2015. 
  15. ^ Sophia Saifi: 'Bravest woman,' free speech activist Sabeen Mahmud killed in Pakistan . In: CNN , April 25, 2015. 
  16. ↑ Pakistan activist, Sabeen Mahmud, who said fear is just line in her head, shot dead in Karachi . In: The Indian Express , April 25, 2015. 
  17. ↑ Malala Condemn's Tragic Killing Of Pakistani Human Rights Activist Sabeen Mahmud . In: Malala Fund Blog . April 26, 2015. Archived from the original on April 27, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 26, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / community.malala.org
  18. ↑ Director T2F Sabeen Mahmud shot dead in Karachi . In: Dawn , April 25, 2015. 
  19. ↑ Sabeen Mahmud Director T2F gunned down in Karachi . In: The News , April 24, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2015. 
  20. ^ Intelligence agencies to assist in the investigation of Sabeen Mahmud's murder . In: Express Tribune , April 25, 2015. 
  21. ↑ TTP deny involvement in Sabeen Mahmud's murder . In: The Express Tribune , April 26, 2015. 
personal data
SURNAME Mahmud, Sabeen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mahmud, S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pakistani human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1975
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2015
Place of death Karachi