Category: EmergencyPk07
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Update @ 0248: Geo TV Shut Down, final words
Geo Aur Genay Do Courtesy: PkPolitics | Reuters
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Update @ 0205: ARY Uplink Dead
Following on the footsteps of the recent ban of Geo.Tv in Dubai the ARY Network has also been pulled off air from Dubai as well, more updates to follow as this news develops
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Update @ 0055: Geo TV Pulled off air from Dubai
About a few hours ago, Geo TV (www.geo.tv) which is a private tv channel that is financed by private investors in Pakistan, and broadcast (land to air) from their base in Dubai were ordered by the UAE government after being pressurized by the Pakistani Military/Musharaff’s government to shut down the television station from broadcasting to…
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Update @ 1602: LUMS Students Movement express Poltical Autonomy
Press Release, issued by the Student Movement at Lahore University of Management Sciences As our movement gains in strength, support, momentum and therefore, media attention, the students of the protest movement at the Lahore University of Management Sciences would like to clarify our position on a number of points. Our movement is fundamentally a non-partisan,…
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Update @ 1424: Manhandling of Imran Khan’s sisters in Lahore
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Update @ 0245: Local Newspaper adverts, Give us Back our Country
Thursday 15th Novembers Dawn (print edition) had a large newspaper advertisement located on the fourth page loudly proclaiming ‘Give us Back our Country’ signed by over 75 signatories from members of the civil society. It was really interesting to see such a bold statement and would do little to contribute to the stand off between…
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Update @ 0230: SC suspend convictions CJ manhandling case
The Supreme Court on Thursday admitted appeals of Islamabad’s police and administration officials convicted of manhandling deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. The new full court stopped the implementation on the convictions till further orders. Ten judges headed by the newly appointed Chief Justice under PCO Abdul Hameed Dogar took up the appeals of former senior…
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Update @ 0155: 2500+ Students rally against Jamiat at Punjab University
An extensive coverage at Lahore Metroblogs of the protests at Punjab University following the betrayal of a few IJT activist who handed the Cricketer turned politician to the police to the bureaucracy The update on Imran Khan is that he was charged under the Anti-Terrorism charge for inciting his supporters to stand up (take up…
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Update @ 2345: PCO amended for Musharraf to retain power to lift emergency
General Pervez Musharraf has amended the Provisional Constitution Order to retain the power of lifting the emergency as civilian president. Under the previous PCO, the power to lift emergency rests with the army chief. Now, the President says that he will doff his uniform by the end of November. The PCO Amendment Order empowers the…
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Update @ 1900: Two Young Boys killed in Karachi unrest
Two boys, aged 11 and 12, have been killed during unrest in a neighborhood of Karachi where supporters of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto have clashed with police since Thursday morning. Police said. “Two children have been killed in firing by unidentified men in the Lyari area,. “They’re also firing at the police. The firing…
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Update @ 0500: Hundreds Rally in Manhattan to Support Pakistani Attorneys
Hundreds Rally at Courthouse to Support Pakistani Attorneys,” New York Law Journal, “About 700 lawyers rallied yesterday afternoon in front of state Supreme Court in Manhattan to show support for lawyers and judges in Pakistan battling for the restoration of the rule of law. Addressing the throng that poured down the courthouse steps and spilled…
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Update @ 1933: Imran Khan to be charged under terrorism law
Geo News reports that the Lahore police have arrested and registered a case agaisnt Imran khan under the Anti-Terrorism law. Lahore Police Chief Malik Mohammad Iqbal has been quoted to have said “Through his speeches he has been inciting people to pick up arms, he has been calling for civil disobedience, he was spreading hatred,”
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Update @ 1723: Observations after meeting the Non-PCO Judges
Members of civil society, lawyers, business persons, doctors and womens rights and human rights ativists met with Judges who have not taken oath under the PCO to express solidarity and show support Following is a summary of this meeting. Treatment of Judges Guards were taken away the same night that emergency was declared. (Saturday 3rd…
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Update @ 1633: I need to stay in Power, Musharraf tells Sky News
President General Pervaiz Musharraf gave an interview to Sky’s Asia correspondent Alex Crawford today in response to the recent arrest of Imran Khan in Lahore, during the interview he told Sky News that “I am not a dictator, I want a democracy, the day when there is no turmoil in Pakistan, I will step down.”…
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Update @ 1453: Imran Khan Beaten up and arrested
A number of reports continue to pour in stating that Imran Khan did show up at Punjab University to present himself in the rally scheduled there for today. A group of students belonging to a another political party (Islami jamiat Talaba, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami) colluded with the administration and huddled Imran Khan into their…