Category: Pakistan
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Update @ 1638: SC declare emergency & PCO valid
Seven-member larger Bench of the Supreme Court (aka Sham Courts) has declared the enforcement of emergency in the country and the issuance of Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) correct and Judges not taking oath under PCO deposed. It also protected and reinforced President General Pervez Musharraf and all steps taken by him in this regard as…
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Update @ 1619: Teachers charged with sedition
In continuation of the attacks on all civil institutions, the illegal and unconstitutional government of Gen. Musharraf has instituted sedition charges against 14 members of the academic staff of Punjab University: Dr. Mumtaz Salik, President, Punjab University Academic Staff Association (PUASA) Dr. Asmatullah, Secretary General, PUASA Dr. Haris Rashid, Director, Centre for High Energy Physics…
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Update @ 1600: HRCP urges to Free Judges and Bar Leaders
HRCP Press Release Expressing serious concern at Mr. Muneer Malik’s illness in jail and the hardships being caused to superior court judges and their families under unlawful and unacknowledged detention, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called for immediate lifting of bar to judges’ and lawyers’ liberty. A statement issued today by Senator…
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Update @ 0301: Pakistan barred from Commonwealth
Pakistan has been suspended from the Commonwealth because of its imposition of emergency rule. Secretary General Don McKinnon said Pakistan was being suspended “pending restoration of democracy and the rule of law”. It must be noted that this is the second time that Pakistan has been expelled from the Commonwealth. The country was suspended in…
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Protest in Pictures II
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Update @ 1653: Imran Khan requested to Break Hunger Strike
I have just been informed that the Central Executive Committee of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf in a meeting today in Islamabad has insisted with Imran Khan despite his commitment to the cause of restoration of Judiciary in Pakistan to break his five day long hunger strike in which he had also stopped taking in water. They…
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Update @ 1301: Sham Courts (SC) Dismiss the final Petition against Musharraf
Today the final petition against Pervaiz Mushrraf was set aside and dismissed by the newly appointed Supreme Court (Sham Court) bench headed by Chief Justice Abdul Hamid Dogar. In a decision which was practically predicted since the bench threw out the earlier four case on a technicality the sixth case was also ceremoniously thrown out…
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Imran Khan’s Pictures after his release from DG Khan Jail
Credit Yahoo News & (AP Photo/Saleem Raza)
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Update @ 0225: Protest in Pictures
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Update @ 0216: Imran Khan Update
As it was reported on this blog around 8PM Imran Khan was released from DG Khan jail, eye witnesses and close family friends say that he was visibly weak and has been on a hunger and water strike for over four days, he had commenced the strike well before it became public which is approximately…
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Update @ 0126: Geo.tv gets another DDoS attack & Teeth Maestro suffers slow downs
According to the Geo.tv website at around 8PM a serious of DDoS attacks started to go onto the website which was brought under control by midnight. This is the second time such an incident has happened at the Geo.tv website the first one was on November 10th when the Pakistani media giant suffered the first…
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Imran Khan Released
reports are just coming in that Imran Khan has been released
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Update @ 1702: Presidential Order to cement legal basis for emergency rule
General Pervaiz Musharraf has yet again is seen issuing an ordinance which says the the Emergency cannot be challenged in any court. The presidential order amends the constitution to stipulate that Musharraf’s November 3 imposition of emergency “is declared to have been validly made and “shall not be called in question in any court or…
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Update @ 1531: Protests Continue at Punjab University
Lahore Metroblogs: Students of University of the Punjab continued protests against IJT’s existence this Monday. This time there were more than 1,500 participants of them who marched within the university premises upto the Vice Chancellor’s office. Girls and boys were holding banners and playcards with their demands written on them while copies of anti-IJT movement’s…
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Update @ 1430: Restrictions on SC Judges tightened
People’s Resistance Legal Team reports After an announcement by the Ministry of Interior yesterday that there were no restrictions on judges imprisoned in their residences in Islamabad, a group of lawyers decided to meet them to test this assertion. The lawyers who were accompanied by Justice (retired) Wajihuddin, were prevented from visiting the Judges Colony…