Category: EmergencyPk07
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Update @ 1343: LUMS Besieged, Important information for Islamabad
The Emergency Moderator mailing list has yet another update Lahore: LUMS student representatives communicated with a senior police official who informed them that any student who has been active in protests lately will be arrested. The student, whose identity can not be revealed for safety reasons, was shown pictures of students the police will arrest…
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Update @ 1320: Chaos in Lahore
Emergency Moderator writes an update on the situation in Lahore There is a successful sit-in continuing outside Justice Shahid Siddiqui’s House (the Punjab government is trying to forcibly evict him because he didn’t take oath under the PCO – this is in violation to their own rules, which state that even on forced retirement an…
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Update @ 1138: LUMS besiged by Police
The first update from The Emergency Times on the LUMS standoff LUMS is currently surrounded by police personnel who have set up barricades near the front entrance. Inspection of all traffic going in and out of the University is underway. The professed motive is to prevent students from attending today’s student rally at the Press…
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Police Barricade LUMS, showdown expected
Updates coming in from The Emergency Times network that the police have surrounded LUMS in anticipation for the 3pm protest outside the Lahore Press Club Police and intelligence agents have surrounded the Lahore University of Management Sciences campus with the intention of stopping students from going to today’s protest. Policemen have severely restricted movement into…
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Pakistan stops US Ambassador Annie Patterson from seeing Aitzaz Ahsan
Police stopped U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson on Monday from meeting Aitzaz Ahsan, who has been placed under house arrest since Nov 3rd. Ahsan was detained under emergency powers invoked by President Musharraf on November 3. The legal counsel for CJP Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry was held at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for nearly three weeks before…
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Justice Shahid Siddiqi’s eviction orders in Lahore
The People’s Resistance network is abuzz with news that Justice Shahid Siddiqui is being evicted from his home in Lahore Asad Jamal in Lahore messaged at about 10.30 pm that Justice Shahid Siddiqui may be evicted from his official residence now. He later sent a text message saying: “Scores of lawyers & civil society activists…
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Protest in Stockholm, Sweden
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Pakistani Election Commission bars Nawaz Sharif
Pakistan’s Election Commission Monday barred former prime minister and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif from a January 8 general election because of past criminal convictions. “His nomination papers are rejected because of his convictions, presiding election official Raja Qamaruzaman told Reuters in Lahore. Its interesting to note that Mr. Nawaz Sharif in his hate to get…
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Save Judiciary, Save Pakistan
Originally Flickr’d by Techunar I feel these two words truly interlinked. How can we expect to do anything in Pakistan, let alone run a country without an independent Judiciary. It has been my view that the present crop of politicians over the past 22 years (1985 to present) have repeatedly proven to have little care…
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PML-N to reverse boycott decision soon
There are reports coming in from a number of news agencies that PML-N will very soon reverse their decision to boycott and succumb to the demands of their party stalwarts and contest the election. I truly feel that contesting the elections will only provide Musharraf with even more legitimacy to continue his reign on this…
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Aitzaz Ahsan House Arrest extend for another 30 days – 24 hr Vigil Report
CodePink activists who have stationed themselves outside of Aitzaz Ahsan’s house in Lahore have reported that they have received confirmation that the police has just issued order to extend the house arrest of Aitzan Ahsan for another 30 days. Talking to Tighe Barry via phone just now he said that the Lahore winter was quite…
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Protest in Hague, Holland – 1st Dec
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Protest in Berlin, Germany – 1st Dec
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Ms. Bhutto, A free Judiciary But Detained Judges – An Open Letter by Ghazala Minallah
An open letter written by Ghazala Minallah d/o Late Justice Safdar Shah to Benazir Bhutto Dear Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, I was absolutely shocked and amazed at your latest statement regarding the judiciary. How could you, of all people, say that you believed in an independent judiciary BUT that personalities did not matter? If personalities did…
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US Human Rights Activists Stage 24-Hour Vigil at the Home of Aitzaz Ahsan
When: 12 noon, December 2 until 12 noon, December 3 Where: 5 Zeman Park, Lahore Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry, members of the U.S. human rights group Global Exchange and the women¹s peace group CODEPINK, came to Pakistan to learn about the political situation since emergency rule was declared on November 3. One of the…