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Category: Judiciary

  • Guantanamo Bay Prison in the Long March to Islamabad

    A special truck customized to represent the illegal prison run by the US Army at Guantanamo Bay is seen to be en route to Islamabad along with the Long March. Some student volunteers were rallied across various student networks to join on the float as mock prisoners. Catch the Live updates of the Long March…

  • Citizen Journalists cover the Long March

    I mentioned a few posts earlier that an initiative has been launched to help cover the Long March procession through its journey from Karachi to Islamabad. The first day I personally reported on the details of the journey from Karachi to Hyderabad and then Sukkur, it was later followed up by frequent SMS and Phone…

  • Dawn Op-Ed: Marching into History by Cyril Almeida

    Published today in the DAWN Op-Ed section by Cyril Almeida Cyril does well to decipher the Constitutional mess being created these days by various individuals in Islamabad, the chaos of the Double A’s, Double B’s, Triple A’s and what not have been deliberately designed to perpetually confuse Pakistanis of their real implication. This article helps…

  • Citizen Reporters needed for Online Coverage of the Long March

    ACTION ALERT FOR LONG MARCH Pakistanis through out the country have today embarked upon a historical Long March for the restoration of the Judiciary. There are hundreds and thousands of people who will participate in the procession witnessing history in the making, taking pictures and capturing priceless videos from their cell phones as the rally…

  • People’s Resistance Update of the Long March

    Posted by Faris Today, PR crew assembled at Agha’s Super Market in the morning and departed to the High Court. Other members of PR were already present at the High Court, while some joined us later. Awab (with his beautifully decorated truck and black flags) and PR bus with posters and stickers all over them,…

  • Reached Hyderabad

    The carvan from Karachi has reached Hyderabad Toll Plaza at around 3:00PM and was greeted by a reception by the local PML-N leadership

  • Long March updates

    10:00am Left.high court in a large procession of 100 cars few trucks and a large number of bikes 10:45 we have reached Quaid Mazar 11:00 a few speeches I hope they leave quickly 11:15 reaching jail chowrangi 11:30 crossed civic center 12:40 leaving sohrab goth welcome camp massive rally we hope to make a difference…

  • Long March preparation from Karachi

    In the past few days lawyers and civil society activists have been in full swing for the preparations of the Long March to Islamabad. This procession is based on the simple one-point agenda for the unconditional restoration of the independence of Judiciary in Pakistan. A large delegation is expected to leave Karachi on the morning…

  • You deserve what you get

    For sometime I contemplated if this article may best be simply linked too in the collection of Decidous Links [mini-links] we have running on the blog but then it would not have opened an opportunity for comments and reactions and I suspect this heart felt article by Ghazala Minallah might evoke some comments from our…

  • Where is our parliament in all this?

    Guest Blog by Amjad Malik Economy is nose diving in Pakistan and people with load shedding, wheat and oil crisis are forced to take law in their own hands and we saw people burning the robbers in Karachi and indecisiveness is breeding law and order crisis, apathy and decline where any thing can happen as…

  • Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me

    Guest post by Salahuddin Ahmed Lets not live in cloud-cuckoo land. Zardari asked for 30 days time to restore judges. It was given. He agreed with Nawaz for an extension of 12 days. We all waited in vain. Now we are expected to continue waiting for an indefinite period of time (no ulti ginti, please)…

  • Judicial Crisis in Review

    This short 10 minute video presentation is a timeline of the political and judicial crisis in Pakistan. The timeline starts from the appointment of Mr.Iftikhar Chaurdy as CJ in 2005 and moves on to imposition of emergency in 2007 and its after effects. Various snapshots and videos for each event in between these dates have…

  • The Package is out !!!

    by Afzal Khan Islamabad May 24 The Constitution Package proposed by the PPP is partly out. It is comprehensive and probably first attempt to cover a broad spectrum of changes and correct distortions made by military rulers since the original document was approved in 1973. It also tries to enshrine most part of the Charter…

  • All The President’s Men

    by Afzal Khan Islamabad May 24 Musharraf keeps his strangle hold on the governance Islamabad May20:”We want governance and not just government”, PPP co-chairman Asif Zardari had bravely declared soon after elections. Unfortunately for him, that runs counter to Gen. (R) Pervez Musharraf’s concept of shedding the authority he had usurped in 1999 and has…

  • Cui Bono: Is This Constitutional Amendment a Ploy?

    Guest blog by Temporal from Baithak The media is speculating about a 62 point draft of a constitutional amendment that would ostensibly cleanse the 1973 constitution of the changes made by Pervez Musharraf. “Pakistan’s main ruling party has drafted a set of constitutional amendments that would erase the legacy of President Pervez Musharraf, its leader…