Category: EmergencyPk07
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Update @ 1615: Three Rockets Fired at Risalpur Academy
Reports are coming in that three rockets were fired in Naushera most likely targeting the Pakistan Air Force Academy, Risalpur. Source say that these were fired from an unknown location one detonated in an empty hostel and two electric transformers. The second rocket was felt at the Export Processing Zone, while the third in an…
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Update @ 0210: Peace rallies in London & San Francisco tomorrow
Received via e-mail from student bodies at universites in the UK and US: A peace rally being held in London, UK tomorrow starts at 1400 BST in front of Downing Street and it is expected that there will be a huge turnout while at 1400 in San Francisco , USA a rally is being staged…
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Update @ 0130: Geo News DDoS’d
On Friday at around 2030 the Geo.tv started to received a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Serice) attack and they were able to recover from this surge of artificial traffic after two hours of down time by around 2235. Geo.tv reports that this is the second time such an attack occurred on its servers resulting in…
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Update @ 2113: Images from today’s Peace Rally at LUMS
The following images (via Flickr) were taken by the student body at LUMS (Lahore University for Management Sciences) where students marked Iqbal day in a peace rally on-campus while calling for the imposition of the state of emergency also known as martial law, to be lifted in Pakistan. People’s faces have been blurred in these…
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Update @ 2030: Peace Rally outside MacDonald’s in Karachi today
The following came into us via e-mail from a representative with the Peoples’ Resistance which is a coalition of various organizations, left-wing political parties, NGOs and human rights organizations, labor and trade-union federations, academics, students, and citizens, demonstrated today (Friday) evening outside MacDonald’s at Sea View in Clifton in a flash peace rally: The public…
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Update @ 2012: Police surround Geo News Bureau in Islamabad
Via news tickers: Geo News bureau in Islamabad have been surrounded by police in an apparent bid to shut down the transmission and editorial work. The city’s district Magistrate has given security forces an order to cordon off the Geo News offices.