A horrific explosion in a crowded market place in Peshawar has killed up to 90 people - One of them a member of my family.

We hear about these attacks everyday, we see and read about them in the media, but we never really realise, or want to realise the human cost. It really hits home when someone you know dies in such a way.

Javed’s death has left a beautiful family behind who now have to pick up the pieces of a war that is not theirs, a war that has robbed them of a father, a husband, a brother an uncle and a son.

Rest in Peace brother.

The West’s myopic media lens is fixed on the every movement of the Muslim world - Hamas patrolling the beach in Gaza, to inforce conservative dress code made headlines in the Guardian on Sunday October 18, 2009 - Is that really so newsworthy? What about the atrocities that occur across that giant wall?  The countless Human Rights abuses that are commited by the agressive rogue state of Israel - Where is our media when it comes to that?

The following needs no words - it speaks for itself:

Shame world. Shame!

Two back-to-back suicide attacks at the International Islamic University in Islamabad have left at least two dead and scores injured. One explosion was in the mens section of the University, whilst the other targeted the cafeteria in the womans section - all victims were students aged between 18 and 25.

A good friend of mine, currently living in Rawalpindi, told me today that all schools around the country will now be closed for at least one week due to the ongoing attacks - but life goes on in this difficult country, as it must, with one young student making the most of his time off school, posting the following message on Facebook, “2morrow holiday yahooooooo………3 days holiday bcoz of THREAT……. 2 much happy..”

Pakistan has been rocked with attacks over the past weeks - A suicide bombing on Friday in Peshawar, killing at least 13 poeple, mostly all civillians.

One day earlier, Thursday - Two police stations and the Federal Investigations Agency in Lahore were attacked by militants, killing over 30 police officers and civillians - 10 attackers also died.

October 10 - Millitants held dozens of hostages for over 22 hours in the Rawalpindi Army Headquarters - 11 military personel, three civillians and nine militants were killed.

In an interview last week with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, CBS journalist Katie Couric got more than she bargained for.

Whilst pressing Ahmadinejad about Neda Soltan, an Iranian woman who was shot and killed by Iranian forces during a protest in June this year, Couric showed a photo of the womans body and asked “what would you say to her family?” - President Ahmadinejad conveyed his sorrow at her death, then turned the tables on Couric and produced his own photograph of another woman. He asked Couric if she knew who the woman was. Couric said she didn’t. And thats when the fun begins.

The woman in Ahmadinejad’s Photograph is Marwa Ali El-Sherbini - who was stabbed to death 20 times by a neo Nazi inside a German Court. The woman’s husband ran to her aid only to be shot at by German police.

Ahmadinejad asks why the Western Media didn’t report on Marwa Ali El-Sherbini’s death in the same manner as they did with Nada Sultan. Ahmadinejad raises some very good points, well worth a watch: