Category: Musharraf
-
Imran Khan gives message of Resistance
A video message by Imran Khan recorded from an undisclosed location while he is defying arrest. Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Justice Party) urges the youth to stand up for the country, while he asks the west to understand the fact that Musharraf is not fighting a war of terrorism but using this…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
‘Phone call’ that led to Emergency
As mentioned previously in one of my post barely a day back when discussing Benazir’s exit out of the country, I suspected that something was a foot regarding the Presidential Petition decision and it could be possible that the Supreme Court judges might revolt, well now with the martial law in full force I think…
-
Where do we go from here? – Najam Sethi
Published in the 4th November edition of Daily Times by the editor-in-chief of Daily Times, I think he has outlined the issue quite well and its worth reading News analysis: Where do we go from here? By Najam Sethi Several points are interesting and significant about last nights political rupture. We have a state of…
-
Update @ 0244: Geo TV’s website back online
Geo TV is now back online and have posted an announcement on their homepage stating that due to enormously heavy traffic on their website, they are presenting a light text-version with latest news updates while the full version of the website will be available in a few hours. A summary of the main points of…
-
Musharraf’s taped address to nation – Part 4
it saddens me the most that after all we have achieved in 7 years, pakistan’s upsurge taking a downward trend, i personally with all facts available to me, consider that inaction at this moment is suicide for pakistan and i can not allow this country to commit suicide. therefore, i had to take this action…
-
Musharraf’s taped address to nation – Part 3
i would like to say as well that some channels, our tv channels, some of them, some programs, they start criticizing government in negative sense, they just talk about negatives, no positives, they were discussing about uncertainty that is how they put some, it was in 1999, no other tv channel but ptv, now my…
-
Musharraf’s taped address to nation – Part 2
When in 1999 i took charge of the government, i was intended to take in process a democracratic step and i took that process gradually to change and transfer power to elected reps of the people, now when i took that my strategy was to control administration and move towards stage two. When in 2002,…
-
Musharraf’s taped address to nation – Part 1
(I’m still transcribing this via the translations from an Al Jazeera reporter on the ground, so please excuse typos and the like) My brothers and sisters all over pakistan, peace be upon you, i’m addressing at this moment. Pakistan, is running a crisis, home security is happening, because of domestic violence, this is very important…
-
Update @ 2125: Musharraf’s live address to nation cancelled
Musharraf’s live address to the nation has been cancelled and instead a taped address is set to be released to news agencies shortly, reasons for the cancellation states that Musharraf is still in the process of preparing his address highlighting the needs behind his decision to declare a state of emergency. The suspended articles within…
-
Update @ 2230
PPP Workers welcome Benazir Bhutto at Karachi Airport Downlink of AAJ TV suspended in Pakistan US Department of State issues alert that the US government is deeply disturbed by imposition of emergency in Pakistan & the Secretary of State stressed that latest moves by Pakistan are regrettable. In less than 30 minutes, Musharraf is set…
-
Emergency declared in Pakistan
At around 5:30pm Pakistan was shoved into a national crisis with the declaration of emergency throughout the country, all electronic media was taken off the air and General Pervaiz Musharraf has assumed all powers over the nation. The threat it seems to have come from the Supreme Court of Pakistan which was soon to decide…
-
Benazir Scampers out of the Country, Bhaag BB Bhaag
Barely two days before the arrival of Benazir Bhutto on Oct 18th, a very respected and trusted source had the opportunity to meet a high level bureaucrat from the Musharraf regime (I would like to protect the source and the contact) for a casual dinner, naturally at that time the hot issue under scrutiny was…