Category: Pakistan

  • People’s Resistance welcomes Election Results, Condemns Blatant Rigging in Karachi

    While welcoming the results of the general elections of February 18, the Peoples Resistance noted that the overall results came about despite massive pre-poll manipulation in the form of compromising the independence of judiciary and media, illegal transfers and postings, and an incomplete and flawed electoral role. PR also strongly condemned the widespread rigging itself…

  • The nation will not forgive…

    Guest Post by Amer Nazir And why should it… The present change has not been brought about by the politicians alone too many unsung heroes have lost their lives… they did not have a distinguished name or title, they just died on the streets… only to figure in a grand total, to add on to…

  • Judicial Bus Karachi to Hyderabad – Pictures

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  • The Failure in the War on Terror – Not Osama but Musharraf

    Source: The Harvard Crimson The former head of the Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligences (ISI) political cell recently confessed that he was responsible for political manipulation in Pakistans 2002 elections that led to Islamists coming to power in two provinces and gaining 59 seats in the National Assembly. This fraud was the work of the Americas supposedly…

  • Judicial Bus Karachi to Hyderabad – Video

  • Pakistan-wide censorship results in 2-hour YouTube Global Shutdown

    Yesterday in a funny yet serious incident youtube was knocked off-line for over two hours and in a comedy of events the blame goes squarely on our beloved Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and their attempt to censor the offending video of the Dutch (Right-Wing) Politician Geert Wilders. Yesterday we had reported that the offending video has…

  • Rawalpindi blast kills Lt. General

    Breaking news-   Bomb blast has taken place in a plaza near the GHQ in Rawalpindi.   8 people reported killed as yet. Surgeon General Mushtaq Baig one of those confirmed dead. I condemn this suicide attack and pray for the innocent departed

  • Blasphemous YouTube video removed due to TOS violation

    We have just been informed that the blasphemous youtube video has been removed from the youtube servers for violating the Terms and conditions of Youtube, this video had been the cause of censorship of the entire youtube domain in Pakistan as enforced by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority I hope this development can convince the PTA…

  • Resolving the Judicial Crisis: A Legal Analysis

    (Author’s Name Withheld On Request) circulated on the People’s Resistance network In the wake of some legislative measures introduced and steps taken by the then Chief of the Army Staff and the incumbent President of Pakistan on November 3, 2007 the Honble Chief Justice of Pakistan and a dozen Honble Judges of the Supreme Court…

  • TWA Internet backbone blocks only Blasphemous video URL

    Yesterday all Internet users in Pakistan were up in arms protesting the sudden censorship of the entire Youtube.com domain. A number of theories circulated which ranged from vote rigging videos to the cartoon video containing the blasphemous images disgracing our Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Pakistan Telecommunication Authority the appointed monitoring agency had issued a notification blocking…

  • Live Blog – Updated @ 17:00: Judicial Bus moves from Karachi to Hyderabad

    The progress of the Judicial bus courtesy Faris of People’s Resistance At around 10:00 the judicial bus left the Sindh high court.bar on its way to Malir Bar reaching there at 10:30 where a big crowd of lawyers & activists were gathered. A press conference was held. Finally at around 11:00 they have departed for…

  • ‘Bolta Pakistan’ censored in certain areas of Pakistan

    “Bolta Pakistan” an AAJ.tv show featuring Mushtaq Minhas and Nusrat Javed came ‘on air’ today and barely five minutes later certain parts of the country namely Islamabad and Karachi were taken off the air. A viewer reported that the comparers had started discussing the negotiations taking place between the PPP hierarchy and the US diplomatic…

  • Judicial Bus to Leave Karachi on Saturday

    Sind High Court Bar Association has extended invitation to civil society, to join them in the first “judicial bus” leaving from Karachi to Hyderabad and back. The rally, accompanied by November 2 judges of Sind High Court will leave Sind High Court Karachi at 9 am, Saturday, February 23, 2008 for Hyderabad. On reaching Hyderabad,…

  • Vote Rigging Videos in Karachi – could this be why YouTube is blocked?

    A few videos appeared yesterday barely a few days following the elections showing some polling officers setting up the voting process. I have personally not seen them but am told that they show some serious election manipulations of the four videos that were online two have been deleted but two specific videos still remain available.…

  • Youtube blocked in Pakistan

    Just in – Youtube seems to have been blocked in Pakistan There are two theories one is that an Anti Islamic movie was being blocked while another theory is that a few videos did surface which showed poll rigging in Karachi Sources say that this video could very well be the objectionable video that is…