Category: Pakistan
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Update @ 1340: UPenn presents panel on Pakistan’s political & civil crisis – Nov 14
Received via e-mail from a student with the South Asia Center at the University of Pennsylvania in the US: South Asia Center presents a Panel Discussion on “Pakistan: Political and Civil Crisis” and co-sponsored by the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, November 14th 2007, starting at 5pm, located…
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Update @ 1215: Candlelight vigil at Lahore Press Club tonight
A large rally is being planned at the Lahore Press Club in Pakistan today. There have been peace rallies throughout the week and several activists, journalists, students, lawyers and academicians have been arrested and detained. It’s been a week since the Chief of Army Staff declared the state of emergency also known as martial law.…
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Update @ 1100: LUMS faculty have been released on bail
The following information was sent in to us from one of our sources, a student at LUMS (Lahore University for Management Sciences): Faculty who had earlier been arrest from the LUMS (Lahore University for Management Sciences) have now been released on bail while the two groups of people who were arrested on Sunday and Monday…
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Update @0930: American Bar Association organizes national rally in DC – Nov 14
Received via e-mail from the president of the ABA (American Bar Association) — William Neukom, through one of the ABA’s lawyers, ABA is calling on all lawyers across the US to join the peace rally in DC on Wednesday this week where they will be marching to the US Supreme Court to show their support…
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Update @ 0304: AMF’s Global Day of Action against Media Curbs
Received via e-mail from the Asia Media Forum: The media in Pakistan is under threats and attacks both by militants and the military-led state authorities. Asia Media Forum (AMF) Pakistan Chapter has condemned the brutal actions against media and has appealed to all journalists in Asia to observe a Global Day of Action on November…
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Update @ 0210: Peace rallies in London & San Francisco tomorrow
Received via e-mail from student bodies at universites in the UK and US: A peace rally being held in London, UK tomorrow starts at 1400 BST in front of Downing Street and it is expected that there will be a huge turnout while at 1400 in San Francisco , USA a rally is being staged…
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Update @ 0130: Geo News DDoS’d
On Friday at around 2030 the Geo.tv started to received a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Serice) attack and they were able to recover from this surge of artificial traffic after two hours of down time by around 2235. Geo.tv reports that this is the second time such an attack occurred on its servers resulting in…
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Update @ 2113: Images from today’s Peace Rally at LUMS
The following images (via Flickr) were taken by the student body at LUMS (Lahore University for Management Sciences) where students marked Iqbal day in a peace rally on-campus while calling for the imposition of the state of emergency also known as martial law, to be lifted in Pakistan. People’s faces have been blurred in these…
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Update @ 2030: Peace Rally outside MacDonald’s in Karachi today
The following came into us via e-mail from a representative with the Peoples’ Resistance which is a coalition of various organizations, left-wing political parties, NGOs and human rights organizations, labor and trade-union federations, academics, students, and citizens, demonstrated today (Friday) evening outside MacDonald’s at Sea View in Clifton in a flash peace rally: The public…
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Update @ 2012: Police surround Geo News Bureau in Islamabad
Via news tickers: Geo News bureau in Islamabad have been surrounded by police in an apparent bid to shut down the transmission and editorial work. The city’s district Magistrate has given security forces an order to cordon off the Geo News offices.
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Update @ 1830: Police cordon off Imran Khan’s house
Received via SMS: Imran Khan’s house has been cordoned off by the police while Pakistani security forces have surrounded Shaukat Khanam Hospital in Lahore while in Rawalpindi, riot police have fired tear gas shells to disperse PPP (Pakistan People’s Party) political workers at the Committee Chowk.
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Update @ 1745: Imran Khan sends message on the battle for Pakistan
We received the following e-mail from Imran Khan who highlights the massive crackdown on genuine opposition, police brutality being used as a tool to induce fear for those attending peace rallies, and the need to restore an independent judiciary among other valuable insights: The imposition of martial law under the garb of emergency should make…
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Update @ 1614: Bhutto prevented from attending rally in Rwalpindi
Bhutto tried to leave her compound in Islamabad 35 minutes ago to Rawalpindi but the police didn’t allow her to, she then made her way into her white SUV with a loudspeaker, her supporters surrounded her land cruiser and have broken through lines of police cordons. She was supposed to deliver her speech to the…
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Update 1600: Bomb goes off in Peshawar
News tickers via Geo TV: A loud explosion was heard in Peshawar a few minutes ago and initial reports via SMS indicate that 4 people have been in killed in the bomb blast. Geo TV journalist (stated that a MPA peer), Mohammad Khan, is among those who have been injured. Federal Minister, Ameer Muqam is…
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Update @ 1520: Rubber bullets fired at demonstrators in Rawalpindi
Just received the following via SMS (although cell phone voice reception has been disrupted by the jammers, the text messaging service is functional): Benazir Bhutto is trying to reach Liaquat Bagh while Pakistani security forces have fired rubber bullets at demonstrators in Rawalpindi where a peace rally is being held today by the PPP (Pakistan…