Category: Pakistan
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Update @ 13:40: Police Outside LUMS, Lahore
An email has just come in that the Inspector General Police has given orders to the Police, Rangers and Ant-Terrorist Force to arrest the students from LUMS where a protest rally was scheduled today at 13:00 Four Army trucks and a police convoy have been positioned outside LUMS. The protest is still to proceed only…
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Avvaz.org Petition: End the Emergency in Pakistan
If you sincerely believe in calling for the restoration of democracy in Pakistan the please sign up for the petition at avvaz.org Pakistan is on the brink. Unpopular president General Musharraf has imposed martial law, sacked the Supreme Court and shut down the media and basic freedoms. Now he is abusing the threat of terrorism…
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Update @ 0515: Rally at university in Lahore today
The following information on the rally being organized by university students in Lahore today afternoon, came in via email from the Student Council at LUMS: The students at LUMS (Lahore University of Management Sciences) in Pakistan are holding a peaceful rally today at 1300 (Pakistan Standard Time) inside the gates. We are expecting hundreds of…
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Update @ 0040: On detentions and releases in Lahore & Karachi
The following update on those who had been detained and arrested previously and who have now been released or otherwise, comes via e-mail from a blogger on the ground (Be) in Pakistan: Lahore: 1) 155 out of the 865 advocates arrested in Lahore on Monday have been sent for a three-day remand in the judicial…
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Update @ 2223: Rawalpindi’s state administation bans PPP meetings
Via SMS from a representative with the PPP (Pakistan People’s Party): Pakistan’s provincial administrative government in Rawalpindi has issued an alert to police and military forces in a statement, banning all public meetings organized by the PPP including rallies, with immediate effect. Follow-up Update The PPP have indicated that their meetings on November 9th, including…
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Update @ 2230 via SMS: Police arrest Qazi Hussain
The leader of Jamaat e-Islami party, Qazi Hussain has been arrested by Police for stating that the state of emergency is just martial law.
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Update @ 2145: PPP (political) rally in Islamabad tomorrow
An update has come in that the PPP (Pakistan People’s Party) are planning to organize a rally to be staged tomorrow (Wednesday) which starts off at 4pm in front of the Parliament House in Islamabad. Benazir Bhutto who has now landed in Islamabad appeared earlier this evening on private media channels to encourage people to…
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Update @ 1800: Phone services restored in Islamabad
Cell phone services have been restored approx. an hour ago in Islamabad with confirmed reports coming in via our comments sections as well as via text messages from friends within the city. Although the landlines and cell phone coverage is back up, reception in certain parts of Islamabad is noisy with audible background interferences. As…
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Update @ 13:45: Phones cut in Islamabad
Reports are coming in, that cell phones have been disconnected in the capital city of Islamabad in an attempt to disrupt the speech of the sacked Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to a meeting of lawyers by telephone. Its been reported that after a few minutes into the speech the line that the judge was…
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Does Musharraf face risk of a coup?
Early today morning there were strong rumors throughout he country that the junior squadron of Army leadership had turned onto Musharraf and had him under house arrest, the rumor fizzled out to be smoke and Musharraf went on record to state that this was ‘a joke of the highest degree’ An interesting article by BBC…
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View Geo TV in Pakistan via satellite
Satellite: PAS 10 Position: 68.5 degrees east Downlink: band c Frequency 4124mhz Polarity V Symbol: 19850 Fec: 3/4 Some more links on Geo.tv Geo Tv Blackballed because of Imran Khan Govt Bans Kamran Khan’s GEO.tv Show Wukla Cola – a Geo.tv spin of ‘Brrr’ Coke commercial Geo News Blocked in Sindh Geo back on air…
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Update @ 2122: Images from Press Club protest in Karachi
The following images were taken by Dr. Awab, streamed in via Flickr, show protesters and the police presence that turned up for the demonstration at the Press Club in Karachi today where a journalist was assaulted by police and five protesters arrested for chanting slogans. More pictures of the protest have been clicked by another…
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Update @ 2045: Troops marching towards parliament buildings
Via Al-Jazeera news tickers, Pakistani troops are marching towards parliament buildings. There have been calls for the National Assembly to convene on Wednesday to discuss the present situation while the Pkistani interior minister has stated that there will be no general elections until the situation on the ground in Pakistan is back to normal which…
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Update @ 1640: Protesters arrested at Karachi Press Club
Via Blackberry from Dr. Awab who is at the protest in Karachi: “I’m at the protest taking pictures but not going through on email, one journalist severely beaten and about 5 arrested”
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Update @ 1445: Asma Jahangir e-mails her detention order
The following e-mail came in via Omer from Asma Jahangir who is the Secretary General of HRCP (Human Rights Commission Pakistan): The situation in the country is uncertain. There is a strong crackdown on the press and lawyers. Majority of the judges of the Supreme Court and four High Courts have not taken oath. The…