Category: Politics
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Pictures of Sindh High Court Arrest
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Arrests outside Sindh High Court
Several lawyers and civil society activists have been arrested while protesting against PCO judge Dogar’s visit to the Sindh High Court on Thursday night. Those arrested include Naeem Qureshi of Karachi Bar Association, K.K. Javed, Salahuddin Ahmed, Riaz Ahmed, Noor, Ayub Qureshi, Noman Qadir, Samina Noman and Anis Haroon. They area reportedly being taken to…
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Just to win peace for myself, my wife and my children
The borders of Pakistan remain under constant pressure from the offensive generated by the American War on Terror, it is this plague amongst other problems that continue to weaken Pakistan on a daily basis. Its ironic that the war is thousands of miles away from the coast of America yet they assume the offensive to…
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Standing up for your Country
Guest Blog by Samad Khurram Published in The News on 11th July 2008 Continuous air strikes on Pakistani territory and repeated intrusions of Pakistani airspace by US-led coalition forces in stark violation of international norms and customs have troubled Pakistanis across the country. These are very similar to US interventions in the political sphere of…
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True independence of institutions or just a ‘job’
Guest Blog by Amjad Malik On 5th of May 2007 Lahore High Court Bar gathered a storm where deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan was facing trial on charges of misconduct, came to the city with a procession of lawyers and won the day. He won the hearts and minds of lay Pakistanis for just saying…
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The rat may come out of the bag…
You get different versions here in London… some very interesting, no matter how sad they are in nature… A few month back, before the elections, a textile tycoon, a friend, a very ‘educated’ man from Lahore, sat with me at Leister Square’s ‘All Bar One’ and cursed both Benazir and Nawaz. ‘They should both be…
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Reko Diq Mystery
Reko Diq is a small town in Chagai District, Baluchistan having the world’s largest Gold and Copper reserves (!!!). Reports emerging from various sources indicate that the US $ 65 Billion natural deposit might have been sold for US $ 21 Billion to Tethyan Copper of Australia which has taken the contract to develop this…
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The curse of the Neo-Colonized
Guest Post by Areej M “In the modern planetary situation, Eastern and Western ‘cultures’ can no longer meet one another as equal partners. They meet in a westernized world, under conditions shaped by western ways of thinking.” — W. Halbfass I have no words to convey my utter disgust at the hypocrisy of the United…
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Dilemma faced by Pakistani Government
By Abdul Azeem This post is a reaction to the article “Pakistan: Negligent on Terror?”, published in TIME on 30th June. TIME: It’s almost like a bad joke. A bus driver, a ski lift operator and a gym rat have turned the Islamic world’s only nuclear-armed nation upside down. On Saturday Pakistani forces chased militants…
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GHQ to Islamabad
Published in The Nation by M. Ashgar Khan The shifting of the Army’s General Headquarters from Rawalpindi to Islamabad has been planned for some time and was given a fresh impetus during 2007. We have not been told what the total financial burden of this move will be but the cost of land alone at…
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Shedding Crocodile Tears over Inflation
The News Tuesday, June 24, 2008 by Aqil Sajjad The PPP and its supporters argue that the “common man” cares more about inflation than the restoration of the judiciary. They insist that forcing the present government’s hand on the judges’ issue would create political instability, threaten the democratic process and make it difficult for the…
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STORY OF A SOLDIER: Samad Khurram!
Guest Post by Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi Reference is the news item, published in the daily news, titled “Pak student refuses to receive award from US envoy“, dated 19th June, 2008 – The News In this world of hypocrisy, it takes guts to stand up for your beliefs. No one has the courage to challenge…
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Student refuses award from US Ambassador
Samad Khurram, an active member of SAC and an undergrad at Harvard Business School refuses an award from the US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson in protest of US policies regarding the support of an illegal President Musharraf and the Mehmand Agency attack. As the video shows that Samad Khurram is called on stage to…
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Whatever is to become of the Movement for Justice
a letter to activists of the People’s Resistance by Dr. Awab Alvi One issue which we all have dodged to question ourselves, is to decide what is acceptable when the powers-to-be talk about the ‘conditional’ restoration of the judiciary, either in the form of the much trumpeted 60-point constitutional package or separately. For me, this…
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Pakistan; The Ongoing “Soft Revolution” towards a “Welfare State” – Part II
Guest Post by Silence Part I of this series can be read here The first Cultural Revolution in history of sub-continent was the Sufi movement, from the 13th century A.D. Sufism increasingly attracted the creative social and intellectual energies within the community and with the passage of time it acquired new dimensions and began to…