Category: Pakistan

  • Justice Ramday being evicted from his house

    It is being reported by various news agencies that Justice Ramdey is being evicted from his residence to be replaced by another Supreme Court Judge Mr. Musa Laghari on the explicit orders of the present siting Chief Justice Mr Dogar. It must be recalled that Justice Ramday was released from his 4-month house arrest barely…

  • Geert Wilders uploads Fitna, but host forced to delete video a day later

    The Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders has posted his controversial film critical of Islam’s holy book, the Koran, on the Internet. I personally have not seen this video and do not plan to watch it simply in protest of his deliberate attempt to spark hatred along religious lines. Generally when reading the description of the…

  • Delegation visiting Benazir’s home town (Larkana) tomorrow

    Posted on the People’s Resistance network by Lala Hussain 50 members delegation of civil society activists from different districts of Sindh will pay tribute to Ms Benazir Bhutto on the day when the new Prime Minister M will be getting a vote of confidence from national assembly on 29th March 2008, Saturday. The main objective…

  • Blog on the Move >> UPDATE: We have successfully Moved

    UPDATE: We have finally moved over to the new host, I hope things are a ‘bit’ faster Since the past few days I have been having nightmares with my host (dreamhost) either due to a fault in my system or their lackluster response to attending my frantic cries for help. Yesterday I finally pulled the…

  • Proposed Resolution for the Restoration of Judges by the National Assembly

    The text of the draft prepared for Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari by Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim for the restoration of the pre-Nov 3rd Judges (DRAFT RESOLUTION) THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF PAKISTAN WHEREAS, We the elected representatives of the people of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan acknowledge and honor the long and arduous struggle for…

  • Chief Justice of Pakistan’s Release as covered LIVE

    Courtesy: Noman

  • PPP proposing “Minus-One-Formula”

    The top PPP leadership has recently approached the legal community proposing a “Minus-One-Formula” which opens the door for a full restoration of the judiciary without the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. It is in some way living up to the Murree Declaration albeit with a few political compromises but basically a face saving package for…

  • Aitzaz Ahsan vs Malik Qayyum debate

    This debate between Aitzaz Ahsan and Malik Qayyum was featured on Hamid Mir’s show Capital Talk on 19th March. Its an hour long discussion divided into nine parts but a definite must watch

  • Server issues – Downtime expected

    Since Saturday I have been experiencing intermittent (frequent) server overload issues. I have been hosted on Dreamhost for over two years and have generally enjoyed the experience. In the past few months the traffic coming into two of my website specifically (teeth.com.pk and bloggers.pk) had gone overboard of normal shared hosting plans and was compelled…

  • Internet Service Provider shuts down Anti-Islamic Dutch Film website

    Network Solutions, the host of Geert Wilders website for hosting his Anti-Islamic Video has shut down the website after receiving numerous complaints against it. The following text appeared on the offending website This site has been suspended while Network Solutions is investigating whether the site’s content is in violation of the Network Solutions Acceptable Use…

  • CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry to be freed on Tuesday after 5 months and 13 days of House Arrest

    It is being reported in The News that once the new Prime Minister takes office i.e on Tuesday 25th March the first order of business would most likely be to free the Deposed Chief Justice Mr. Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry after Musharraf kept in under house arrest for over five months and 13 days. The security…

  • Syed ‘BoobPress’ Raza Gilani – Pakistans next Prime Minister

    Pakistan Peoples Party may have selected their interim Prime Minister, but his closet is full of some scary skeletons. A few may have laid eyes on this YouTube video posted a year back showing this ‘to-be’ prime minister innocently doodling Sherry Rehman. For a few it may be an ‘accidental’ grope but I would in…

  • PPP names Yousuf Raza Gilani as interim PM

    The Pakistan Peoples Party Saturday named ex-parliamentary speaker Yousuf Raza Gilani as its candidate to be the country’s new prime minister. “I have great pleasure in calling upon Yousuf Raza Gilani in the name of Shaheed (martyr) Benazir Bhutto to accept the heavy responsibility to lead the coalition government and the nation”,” said a statement…

  • Seminar: Do Countries sell their own people?

    A seminar is being held in Lahore on Human Rights titled, Do countries sell their own people? Civil liberties in the age of the War on Terror. Time: 3:00 PM Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 Venue: HRCP Auditorium (107 Tipu Block, Garden Town, Near Barkat Market) – Google Map or Download the JPEG Image The…

  • Silent Revolution – 2

    Guest Blog by Amjad Malik (blog) Previous Article of the series : Silent Revolution – 1 My brief visit to Pakistan in March was welcomed by suicidal blast in Lahore FIA building and farewell attack in Islamabad restaurant resulting several deaths and injuries which pose a serious question of law an order situation in Pakistan…