Update @ 0104: Arrested university professor calls for a united protest
The following message by Osama Siddique who is a university professor at LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) and arrested earlier alongside members of HRCP, was sent to us via the blackberry service within our comments section on a previous blog posting:
Dear all,
As I write to you many members of society are actively protesting against the travesty that has plunged us once again into the dark ages. The HRCP (Human Rights Commission Pakistan) building has been surrounded by police and peaceful protesters including some of our faculty members are about to be arrested.
In Islamabad and elsewhere the top judiciary of the country remains under house arrest and similar arrests are being made. The press has been completely muffled. This is the time to peacefully but unequivocally express our very strong dismay and protest against yet another martial law. However as we unite in this please ensure that nothing happens that in any way undermines our institutional norms. Please introspect and gauge whether continuing silence makes sense any more.
Please speak up, stand together and be counted. And be careful.
Comment Meta: Leave a comment | Subscribe to the Comment Feed | Upload your Comment Image
uncivilised takeover by the military in pakistan must be condenmed by one and all
[...] Teeth Maestro has a message from Osama Siddique, a university professor who was arrested. The Emergency Times reports on students of LUMS joining a protest on the 5th of November. Yes the very depoliticized student society that our leaders have taken for granted and grown so accustomed to, has awoken from its decades long slumber with a roar, that enough is enough. No longer are we going to be conformist to our governments policies, as if we have no choice, no longer are we going to be scared to question or raise our voice because we are intimidated by the states power and what may be done to us; no longer are we going to refrain from action, from sheer complacency. [...]
This is truly very brave of LUMS’ students and faculty. The new social awakening and political consciousness are being diplayed by such unexpected segments of our society. The struggle between the corrupt forces of status quo and the massive force of change should be waged by us all. This is the only way to bring about change in our socio-political map.