Category: Politics
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March 10th: Black Flag Week Events
Karachi Complete BOYCOTT OF ALL THE COURTS. 3:00 pm >> Flag Hoisting: Hotel Jabees, Saddar Islamic Lawyers Movement (ILM) People’s Resistance and all other friends are invited to join 5:00 pm >> Flag Hoisting: Iqbal Haider’s House D-25, Block 4, KDA 5, Clifton Just after Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s Mazar, off 26th Street Behind Designers. Lahore…
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Black Flag Week activities in UK
Reported by Rabia Zia On March 9 2008 in front of the High Commission of Pakistan, London, the Pakistani community in the UK responded to the call of the Supreme Court Bar Association to show solidarity with the lawyers movement in Pakistan to restore judiciary and to ask Musharraf to step down immediately with Go…
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Pictures: Black Flag Week event at Karachi Press Club
Credit: Sahar Shafqat
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Black Flag Week Rally in Karachi a huge success
Today the rally at the Karachi Press Club organized by number of organizations for the Black Flag Week was a tremendous success, estimates across the spectrum were around 10-15,000 people in attendance. It was attended by a number of political parties, NGO’s, lawyers, traders, reform groups and civil society groups of which namely the People’s…
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Zardari and Sharif vow to restore Judiciary within 30 days of formation of Parliament
In a joint statement of Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari they have come together to form a coalition govt and have promised to reinstate all deposed judges within 30 days of Parliament. Aitzaz Ahsan welcomes this new development and states that countdown will begin. In all honesty this could be the ‘face-saving’ excuse that Nawaz…
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Islamabad Rally Tear Gassed and Lathi-charged
Reports are coming in that the Black Flag Week Rally in Islamabad was lathi charged and heavily tear gassed As reported on Dawn Police fired teargas at supporters of the country’s sacked chief justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, protesting outside his official residence in Islamabad on Sunday, witnesses said. The protestors, including lawyers, political party workers…
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Black Flag Week – 9th March events
The Sindh High Court Bar Association (SHCBA), Karachi Bar Association (KBA), Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ) and Peoples Resistance are organizing a joint rally with civil society, students, political parties, activist groups, and trade unions to demand the restoration of the Judiciary. The rally will take place inside the premises of Karachi Press Club at…
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International Women’s Day; A Pakistani Perspective
March 8th marks the celebration of the International Womens Day worldwide, in Pakistan women have done some hard work to be considered at par with the men of society, probably their most notable event remains the protest of Feb 12th 1982 where women were brutally attacked by the state machinery (aka Zia-ul-Haq), that day is…
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Aitzaz Ahsan’s call for Black Flag Week (9th-16th March)
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Zardari & MQM slowly washing away their Sins
The old saying in Pakistan goes – come into power and all your previous sins are forgotten, Wednesday March 5th marked another gloomy day in the history of Pakistan, Five corruption cases against Asif Ali Zardari, were quashed by an accountability court in Rawalpindi. The move comes in response to a ruling by a Sindh…
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Silent Revolution – 1
Guest Blog by Amjad Malik Public have silently spoken through ballot putting added pressure on our political clan who always fall a prey to pragmatism and accept defeat before even the battle starts. Lawyers moved, bench stood up, media bore with the bashing honourably but only the clan of Q did not move and surrender…
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Aitzaz Ahsan Welcomed to Karachi
Karachi gave a rousing welcome to Aitzaz Ahsan on his arrival to Karachi late Tuesday night. A large group of lawyers, civil society activists and political parties had gathered to welcome the hero of the judicial movement in Pakistan to Karachi. It was perhaps the first time since he step foot on Karachi soil since…
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Update on the Hunger Strike, for the release of CJP’s children
Posted by AH Nayyer on the People’s Resistance Network The hunger strikers – Iqbal Bali and Jahangir Akhter – are steadfast in their stand on the 4th day. They have been joined by a protester from Sindh whose son has been abducted by the police and agencies. The strikers heard in the afternoon that the…
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Hunger Strike in Islamabad for CJP Iftikhar Chaudhry’s Children
Received from AH Nayyar on the People’s Resistance network The hunger strike by two leaders of Awami Jamhoori Ittehad in Islamabad has now entered the third day. Iqbal Bali and Jahangir Akhter have been on hunger strike to protest the illegal incarceration of the children of Chief Justice Iftikhar. They are sitting in a camp…
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The Zardari Metamorphosis
In the three months following the assassination of Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, her husband, Asif Ali Zardari has been progressively rebuilding his image, trying to distance himself from the tainted image of a feudal lord & Mr 10 percent, into the ‘Statesman’ sporting a sleek suit, trimmed mustaches and dyed hair, one has to seriously wonder…