Progressive activist and organizer who ran Pakistan's first-ever hackathon and led a human rights and a peace-focused nonprofit known as The Second Floor (T2F) was shot dead on Friday by unidentified gunmen in Karachi. Sabeen Mahmud described
'Sabeen was like titanium. So strong. So dignified. In every way. A huge supporter of all voiceless people. A voice' is how one of Sabeen's friends bid her adieu her on social media. These words aptly sum up yet another soldier lost to extremism. (
Sabeen was passionate about music, literature, painting, social activism and the list goes on. She not only uninhibitedly nurtured things she was passionate about but also gave others a platform to air their views and opinions. (Photo: Facebook)
This was the last picture Sabeen posted on instagram from 'Unsilencing Balochistan Take 2' before she was shot by unidentified gunmen (Photo: Instagram)
T2F had on Friday organised a talk on Balochistan: 'Unsilencing Balochistan Take 2: In Conversation with Mama Qadeer, Farzana Baloch
Conceived as a bookstore and café patterned after the old coffeehouse culture of Lahore and Karachi, The Second Floor or T2F, as everyone called it says on its website that it was born out of a desire to enact transformational change in urban
Mahmud represented something new in Karachi. She said in an interview, 'fell passionately in love' with the first Mac she saw, teaching herself MacPaint and MacDraw in college in 1992, and devoting countless hours to Tetris. In 2006, Mahmud decided
Sabeen Mahmud, short-cropped hair, rectangular glasses, hunched over a laptop, a lady with a vision for a peaceful Pakistan; She founded a small tech company, opened a hip coffee shop and organized a successful hackathon (a first of it's kind in
Sabeen Mahmud: The world loses a 'post modern flower child'