Honest Expressions: April 2010

Marvi Sirmed is National Project Manager of a parliamentary development project of UNDP, Strengthening Democracy through Parliamentary Development in Pakistan (SDPD). She works closely with the Parliament of Pakistan (National Assembly and the Senate of Pakistan) for the training and orientation of the honourable members of the parliament along with the officials of the parliament’s secretariats.

Her project also involves producing research and comparative studies in order to not only facilitate the process of orientation of the parliamentarians, but also, to inform civil society and media for making it possible for both these actors to positively engage with the parliament.

Marvi Sirmed has worked very closely with technical experts from parliaments like UK House of Commons and Scottish Parliament for producing various documents elaborating on functions of the parliament and how members could work to ensure democratic governance of the country, pro-poor and responsive legislation, oversight of the actions of the Executive Branch (the government) and representation of the constituents alongside working with media experts to chalk out an effective communications strategy for the Parliament of Pakistan in order to improve its public image.

Earlier, she has been working as Institutional Development Specialist with the Ministry of Women Development, Government of Pakistan and as Policy Advocacy Specialist with National Commission on the Status of Women, in the capacity of UNDP expert. She started her career as journalist in 1990 and has been working as article writer, Sub Editor, Editor Women’s Page, Editor Students’ Page and Member of Investigative Team in different national dailies (Daily The News, Jang, Pakistan, Khabrein etc.).

After an enriching experience as a media person, she worked with two of the top educational institutions of Lahore, The Crescent Model School and Pamir Knot College, as subject specialist (Chemistry and English Linguistics). Afterwards, she switched to the development field and joined South Asia Partnership Pakistan, where she was engaged in program development, organizational assessments, monitoring and evaluation of the development projects in Punjab and interior Sindh. She established women’s groups and community based organizations in over twenty districts of Punjab and 10 districts of Sindh.

In 2000, she joined Institute of Overseas Pakistanis to develop a leading organization to watch the process of legislation in Pakistan, Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) and contributed in the establishment of PILDAT and development of its maiden programs for the capacity building of parliamentarians.

Afterwards, she joined Aurat Foundation's Legislative Watch Programme in 2001. Under the programme, legislative processes going on at federal and provincial levels were watched with gender lens, through Legislative Watch Groups (LWGs), established in all the provinces and composed of legislative experts and technocrats. Advocacy programmes were developed in the light of LWGs’ observations and executed in order to affect policy change and legislations. One of the most successful advocacy programmes, was the one for the reservation of 33% quota for women in law making bodies.

She is author of many research based papers, articles, contributes columns in national daily newspapers. She is widely travelled in USA, UK, Malysia, Indonesia, Bangkok, India and Bangladesh for reading various papers, participating in conferences / seminars / training events on legislative development, democratic governance, poverty reduction, and community development.

She was a part of International Visitors Leadership Programme (IVLP) run by State Department of United States of America, in 2004. Besides being founder member of an independent political think tank, Voice of Democracy, she is a member of Women’s Initiative for Peace in South Asia (WIPSA), Women’s Action Forum, Insaani Haqooq Ittehad, Pakistan India Peoples Forum, South Asian Free Media Association, and Pakistan Forum for Social Democracy.

She has been visiting SAARC region as member of high profile delegations. She is a social democrat and believes in secular values. Being a rights' campaigner, she has been part of various advocacy campaigns and movements in Pakistan for human rights and restoration of democracy. She was once arrested under Musharraf regime for raising voice against unconstitutional step of enforcing Emergency in November 2007.

Friday, April 30, 2010

. . . bus aap, aap, aap hi dil mein samaaye hein! ♫ http://blip.fm/~pkev4

Monday, April 26, 2010

Hum apnay peron mein janay kitnay bhanwar lapaitay hoye paray hein - bari wafa se nibhai tum ne hamari thori s... ♫ http://blip.fm/~pb858

Tu kahaan ye bataa is nasheeli raat mein . . maanay na mera dil diwana! ♫ http://blip.fm/~pb5r1

Khud pe itraatay hoye, khud se sharmaaatay hoye, chandni raat mein ik baar tumhein dekha he! ♫ http://blip.fm/~paxig

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Labon se ager tum bula na sako tau nigahon se tum naam le ker bula lo! ♫ http://blip.fm/~p9a11

. . . ye kaun jo dil per chhaya . . mera ang ang muskaaya! ♫ http://blip.fm/~p8x2o

Saturday, April 24, 2010

And this SDB song is simply brilliant! Jewel Thief gave good music. Rula ke gaya sapna mera! ♫ http://blip.fm/~p7lq5

Rim jhim giray sawan! @shiringul RDB and Amit ji both in one :))) ♫ http://blip.fm/~p7lnk

Friday, April 23, 2010

. . . ye kaun jo dil pe chhaaya, mera ang ang muskaaya! :) ♫ http://blip.fm/~p5o6f

Thursday, April 22, 2010

. . . Aap ki nigaah ne kahaa tau kuch zaroor hay . . mera dil machal gaya tau mera kia qasoor hay! :) ♫ http://blip.fm/~p3waz

. . . haar gayee sajna!!!! ♫ http://blip.fm/~p3vuq

Jiyara re jhoomay aisay jesay ban maa nachay mor! ♫ http://blip.fm/~p3rds

Raat Kali ik khwab mein aayee . . aur galay ka haar hoyee! How will one ever be able to forget Kishor da? ♫ http://blip.fm/~p3rap

Lootay koi man ka nagar ban ke mera sathi! ♫ http://blip.fm/~p3j8g

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

mera dil jo mera hota, palkon se paker leti, honton pe uthaa leti - haathon mein khuda hota! Anubhav gave one ... ♫ http://blip.fm/~p1t2h

. . . qasam tumhari mein ro paroon gi! ♫ http://blip.fm/~p1sm9

Dastak is unforgettable for the music it produced. Now listen this one: Maayen ri mein kaasay kahoon peer apna... ♫ http://blip.fm/~p1s2r

Monday, April 19, 2010

Blipping I think 100th time . . but I love it...tum se kahoon ik baat paron se halki halki! ♫ http://blip.fm/~oxt4u

Chan se ham ko kabhi, aap ne jeenay na diya! ♫ http://blip.fm/~oxopw

ajkal teray meray piyar ke charchay her zaban per . . . sab ko maloom hay aur sab ko khabar ho gayee! :) ♫ http://blip.fm/~oxol6

. . . Mujhay tum se mohabbat ho gayee hay mujhay palkon ki chhaaon mein rehnay do! ♫ http://blip.fm/~owrlp

Sunday, April 18, 2010

dil ko bharam ye ho gaya he, un ko hum se piyar hay! ♫ http://blip.fm/~ov62i

chan aaye meray dil ko duaa kijiyay! ♫ http://blip.fm/~ov3ie

Mere dil mein aaj kia he...my all times favourite romantic song, dedicated to lovely @sarataseer for reminding... ♫ http://blip.fm/~ov2r9

. . . mein un se piyar ker loon gi . . baatein hazaar ker loon gi! :) ♫ http://blip.fm/~ov1h4

na mein dekhoon ghair ko, na mein tohay dekhan doon-kaajer daaroon kirkira, surma diya na jaye, jin nainan mei... ♫ http://blip.fm/~ov05x

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Jiya lay gayo ji mora sanwariya! :) ♫ http://blip.fm/~ou8sr

Parastish ki yaan tak, ke aye butt tujhay, nazar meinsabho ki khudaa ker chalay! ♫ http://blip.fm/~ou831

Bari bay-wajeh zindagi ja rahi thi! RD Barman's unforgettable for Andhi. Dedicated to RDB fan @shiringul :) ♫ http://blip.fm/~otv0o

Mahendra Kapoor says a deep "naaaainaan" in such a captivating way! A Kaliyan ji Anand ji tune for Kangan. wa... ♫ http://blip.fm/~otu6y

Ager na miltay is jiwan mein, letay janam dobara *wink* . . . dedicated to my new tweeple @abhijitdg ji, from ... ♫ http://blip.fm/~otfca

Film Sujata's epic song. Talat sahib ne haq ada ker diya! Jaltay hein jis ke liye! ♫ http://blip.fm/~otd3e

Lata ji and Talat ji sang this as Salil Chaudhry's, but its actually by Mozart. Epic. isn't it? ♫ http://blip.fm/~otaoj

Ve her charkhay de geray mein tenu yaad kardi! - Love the composition, its transformation from Naulakha kuray ... ♫ http://blip.fm/~ot93l

Friday, April 16, 2010

@Biorahul Thanks a lot! Now this one's for you. Bulleh Shah by Pathanay Khan :) ♫ http://blip.fm/~oreex

Chhupaa lo yun dil mein piyar mera, ke jesay mandir mein lau diyay ki! ♫ http://blip.fm/~oragp

Saranga teri yaad mein nain hoyay bechan...madhur tumharay milan bina . . . ♫ http://blip.fm/~or9eu

. . . sochta hoon mein ke tumhein piyar na karoon! ;) ♫ http://blip.fm/~or53k

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

. . . teri ik boond ke piyaasay hum! ♫ http://blip.fm/~onvk1

....Mera bairagi man dol gaya . . dekhi jo adaa mastana! ♫ http://blip.fm/~onuul

Sunday, April 11, 2010

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Zardari! http://ping.fm/N3ST5

From the Forgotten Archives: Question Mark for Judiciary, Army & Media http://ping.fm/4AhC0

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Eleven Years Ago in the Courts http://ping.fm/xZao7

Friday, April 9, 2010

A beautiful song courtesy @shiringul :) ♫ http://blip.fm/~odw6a

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