Author: ange
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Update @ 0040: On detentions and releases in Lahore & Karachi
The following update on those who had been detained and arrested previously and who have now been released or otherwise, comes via e-mail from a blogger on the ground (Be) in Pakistan: Lahore: 1) 155 out of the 865 advocates arrested in Lahore on Monday have been sent for a three-day remand in the judicial…
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Update @ 2223: Rawalpindi’s state administation bans PPP meetings
Via SMS from a representative with the PPP (Pakistan People’s Party): Pakistan’s provincial administrative government in Rawalpindi has issued an alert to police and military forces in a statement, banning all public meetings organized by the PPP including rallies, with immediate effect. Follow-up Update The PPP have indicated that their meetings on November 9th, including…
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Update @ 2230 via SMS: Police arrest Qazi Hussain
The leader of Jamaat e-Islami party, Qazi Hussain has been arrested by Police for stating that the state of emergency is just martial law.
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Update @ 2145: PPP (political) rally in Islamabad tomorrow
An update has come in that the PPP (Pakistan People’s Party) are planning to organize a rally to be staged tomorrow (Wednesday) which starts off at 4pm in front of the Parliament House in Islamabad. Benazir Bhutto who has now landed in Islamabad appeared earlier this evening on private media channels to encourage people to…
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Update @ 1800: Phone services restored in Islamabad
Cell phone services have been restored approx. an hour ago in Islamabad with confirmed reports coming in via our comments sections as well as via text messages from friends within the city. Although the landlines and cell phone coverage is back up, reception in certain parts of Islamabad is noisy with audible background interferences. As…
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View Geo TV in Pakistan via satellite
Satellite: PAS 10 Position: 68.5 degrees east Downlink: band c Frequency 4124mhz Polarity V Symbol: 19850 Fec: 3/4 Some more links on Geo.tv Geo Tv Blackballed because of Imran Khan Govt Bans Kamran Khan’s GEO.tv Show Wukla Cola – a Geo.tv spin of ‘Brrr’ Coke commercial Geo News Blocked in Sindh Geo back on air…
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Update @ 2122: Images from Press Club protest in Karachi
The following images were taken by Dr. Awab, streamed in via Flickr, show protesters and the police presence that turned up for the demonstration at the Press Club in Karachi today where a journalist was assaulted by police and five protesters arrested for chanting slogans. More pictures of the protest have been clicked by another…
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Update @ 2045: Troops marching towards parliament buildings
Via Al-Jazeera news tickers, Pakistani troops are marching towards parliament buildings. There have been calls for the National Assembly to convene on Wednesday to discuss the present situation while the Pkistani interior minister has stated that there will be no general elections until the situation on the ground in Pakistan is back to normal which…
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Update @ 1640: Protesters arrested at Karachi Press Club
Via Blackberry from Dr. Awab who is at the protest in Karachi: “I’m at the protest taking pictures but not going through on email, one journalist severely beaten and about 5 arrested”
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Update @ 1555: Tips for protesters marching towards Karachi Press Club
Bloggers who are participating in the protest at the Press Club in Karach which started about a half hour ago, have sent in messages stating the visibibility of a heavy police (Nafri) prescence posted around the Karachi Press Club (KPC), and the numbers are continuing to increase. The roads around the KPC have been cordoned…
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Update @ 1445: Asma Jahangir e-mails her detention order
The following e-mail came in via Omer from Asma Jahangir who is the Secretary General of HRCP (Human Rights Commission Pakistan): The situation in the country is uncertain. There is a strong crackdown on the press and lawyers. Majority of the judges of the Supreme Court and four High Courts have not taken oath. The…
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Update @ 0200: Protest at Press Club in Karachi today
The following is a poster announcing a protest starting from 1600 (Pakistan time) today at the Press Club in Karachi which calls upon the people of Pakistan to demand for an end to the media blackout, the restoration of Supreme Court judges and lifting the state of emergency and martial law in Pakistan (sent via…
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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…
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Update @ 0015 from HRCP Vice Chairperson in Karachi
A couple of minutes ago, we posted that HRCP’s members had been released after a blogger on the ground tipped us off via e-mail, however, after a phone call to the vice chairperson of HRCP in Pakistan the blogger sent in the following: I just spoke to Zohra later (the HRCP Vice Chairperson in Karachi).…
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Update @ 2345: Details of arrests at Human Rights Commission Pakistan
The following via a blogger in Lahore who passes information on the condition of anonnymity: Those detained were in a private meeting, inside HRCP’s offices this afternoon — not staging a protest or demonstration of any kind. Among the arrested are a motley bunch who had assembled due to a shared interest in the political…