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Category: CrisisPk

  • Postal workers in Lahore buying Votes for Rs 1,500 ($25) only ?

    Exposing election rigging is a tough job. as the onus of proof generally lies on the accuser, hence usually very tough to prove, at times opposing parties may even try to set each other up simply to humiliate them and pull a few extra votes in the process, everything seems to be fair in our…

  • Issue of Nuclear Deterrance for Pakistan

    Guest Comment by Dr Arif Alvi The issue of Nuclear Deterrence in unsafe hands is increasing in proportion and is becoming dangerous enough for me to believe that it will get worse until actual force is used to neutralize our nuclear assets. I feel uncomfortable in stating that I pointed these matters out since the…

  • Latest update on arrests in Dadu and Naushero Feroz, Sindh

    A few activists of the People’s Resistance are actively working in the interior sindh for standing up against this wave of arrests taking place today’s update is as follows Dadu: 235 FIRs registered and 50,400 people booked. 400 PPP workers nominated including both candidates for National Assembly Rafiq Jamali & Dr Talat Mahesar All candidates…

  • Sindh is angry and Punjab is not helping – Shaheen Shehbai

    Call me paranoid, call me crazy, but the way things have been unfolding for the past few months indicate that the top leadership aka General Pervaiz Musharraf and his party of thugs will do anything and everything to hold onto that seat of power. In the recent past there seems to be a deliberate attempt…

  • SAC Protest Call in Lahore at Minar-e-Pakistan at 2pm today

    The Student Action Committee (Lahore) has called for a protest on the 8th of January 2008 at 2 pm at Minar-e-Pakistan. In full collaboration with civil society groups, lawyers and activists; this protest is to be registered against the removal of the Pre Nov 3rd judiciary that stood for a just rule of law and…

  • About 200,000 people Arrested in Sindh

    There are reports which are coming in for the past few days that a major crackdown is underway in Sindh specially targeting the workers of Pakistan People Party to an extent that there are official reports of around 0.2 million people that have been arrested for their involvement and activities in the rioting following the…

  • HRCP Statement “Civil society for change at the top, fairplay and citizens rights”

    Just received this press statement from Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on discussion about the present political situation in Pakistan and condemned the wide spread arrests being made of all opposition leaders HRCP Pakistan: Activists of civil society organizations and concerned citizens, including representatives of the four provinces, met at HRCP office in Lahore to…

  • American boots in Pakistan will push miscreants into Pakistani homes

    Guest Blog Post by Moin Ansari Moin Ansari’s Blog The push theory pushes drug dealers and insurgents out of an area. This action does not eliminate the the insurgents or destroy the insurgency. It simply moves and “pushes the insurgents to a different area, usually into civilian quarters. The US and NATO have been successful…

  • Citizens Group Calls for a Non-Partisan President

    The Citizens Group on Electoral Process met on January 4 under the umbrella of PILDAT and after the meeting they have agreed to these basic points, the minutes of the entire meeting are attached below which was attended an impressive list of some 20 respected members of civil society. I hope this ongoing pressure can…

  • Documentary on Emergency in Pakistan

    Interactive Resource Center as a PACFREL member developed a documentary on Emergency in Pakistan. The documentary provides glimpses of the crisis and highlighted movement of various segments of the society against emergency including lawyers, judiciary, media, political parities and civil society. Link: IRC

  • Chaudhry’s selling their assets – in Preparations ….?

    AAJ TV reports that the Chaudhry brothers, the movers and shakers of PML-Q since the past five years and a political ally of Pervaiz Musharraf are selling their assets in Pakistan and transferring their accumulated wealth to foreign lands. AAJ has received this privy information from sources very close to the Chaudhry Shujaat and Chaudhry…

  • Family Rivalries Surface to tear at Benazir’s Legacy

    As predicated by this scribe in a post on Jan 1st the only way ruling elite can ensure a weakened PPP is to slowly chip away and exploit the jealousies and rivalries of the Bhutto clan, this could be the start of such propaganda, I personally see three potential breakaway’s from this post-Benazir era, Mumtaz…

  • Another Video Released showing the Assassination

    Another mobile video has just been released and it shows Benazir being shot down before the actual bomb blast, I continue to feel depressed with the sensation that Pakistan has lost a great leader, political differences maybe but no one could ever wish for such at thing. These reports that continue to come forward are…

  • STRATFOR: Bhutto and the U.S.-Jihadist Endgame

    An article appearing in STRATFOR [Strategic Forecasting Inc.] about Pakistan, its definitely worth reading, but mind you its from the perspective of a Non-Pakistani, its time that WE stand up for what we believe is right for Pakistan, not what they hope is good for us. Is that too much to ask….. Pakistan, Bhutto and…

  • From President Musharraf to President Zardari

    For many the headline itself is a scary thought, but I assure you its not unimaginable… Looking at the address by ‘Sir’ Musharraf to his humble servants today at 8pm was nothing even close to the ‘breaking news‘ we all expected but the more ‘shocking news’ was immediately following, the Press Conference by ‘Sir’ Zardari…