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Category: Politics

  • Pakistans Rich List of 2008

    Short-listing Pakistan’s most influential business magnates or Groups has never been an easy task because there are the people who have been very powerful in nearly every regime that has held this country’s reins since the last 60 years and then we have had those seasonal species that maneuvered their voice to be heard better…

  • Vigil held to wish recovery and good health for Muneer Malik

    Several citizens responded to a call made by People’s Resistance to hold a “get well soon” vigil in front of SIUT where Mr. Muneer Malik, former President Supreme Court Bar Association, is under treatment. Numbers started picking up quickly from a handful to about 25 people holding the vigil at any one time. One of…

  • Vigil for Muneer Malik’s Recovery

    People’s Resistance would like to issue a call for a 6-hour vigil outside SIUT today 7th Dec for the quick recovery of Mr. Muneer Malik. Please show up in full force and share your concern for this great leader and his struggling medial condition. Location : SIUT Karachi Date: 7th December 2007 Time: 6 pm…

  • Update @ 0335: Police Reinforcements surround Citizens

    Posted on the Emergency Times network by the Caped Avenger Over 100 people have been protesting the arrest of students, lawyers and members of civil society for the past few hours. At the time of writing of this report they have been completely outnumbered and surrounded by a police force armed with batons and shields.…

  • Video: Aabpara Protest, Islamabad – 4th Dec 2007

    Other relevant links: Protest in Pictures & EyeWitness Account

  • Dublin Protest outside the Irish Parliament – 1st Dec

  • Update @ 0130: from Race Course Jail Lahore

    Update appearing on the Emergency Times Mailing List posted by the Emergency Moderator In the past hour, over a hundred students, lawyers and members of civil society have joined outside the Racecourse jail to express solidarity and demand the release of the innocent people who were arrested today outside of Justice Shahid Siddiqui’s house. If…

  • The Silence of Friends

    Guest post by Salman Ahmad “In the end, what we will remember is not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends – Martin Luther King Jr The Chinese proverb goes May you live in interesting times and the past week has been nothing if not that. The openly accusatory e-mail exchange…

  • SMS Update @ 0024: Citizens arrested in Lahore from outside J Shahid’s House

    Citizens outside Justice Siddiqui’s house have been arrested and taken to Racecourse Jail in Lahore

  • Update @ 2248: Muneer Malik’s medial condition Deteriorates

    Just reported on the Emergency Times network Muneer A Malik’s condition has suddenly deteriorated at the SIUT hospital in Karachi. Doctors are reviewing whether to send him abroad. Please join us in praying for a swift recovery. He is a titan – may God restore him to good health soon.

  • Musharraf’s emergency upends Pakistan’s courts

    By Nafisa Hoodbhoy, McClatchy Newspapers A month after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan , the country’s once-independent judiciary is in disarray and still under attack, making it unlikely that America’s closest ally in the war on terrorism will have a functioning democracy anytime soon. Police lines surround the principal…

  • Coalition of Concerned Citizens – A successful day on Capitol Hill

    Press Release issued by Coalition of Concerned Citizens An impressive number of Members of U.S. Congress and a Senator addressed a large gathering of Concerned Citizens to show their support for the restoration of pre-November 3 independent Pakistani Judiciary. In addition to the U.S. lawmakers, the representatives of Amnesty International, and International Crisis Group also…

  • People’s Resistance issues a Protest Call for 13th Dec in Karachi

    The meeting held at Karachi Press Club was a great success which was attended by quite a number of political parties, civil society groups, lawyers, laborers and student organizations. It was mutually accepted to answer to the call of People’s Resistance on the 13th of December holding a protest rally at Regal Chowk at 4:00pm…

  • Musharraf’s teams Mis-statements at Asia Society

    A detailed rebuttal to Musharraf PR Teams Mis-statements at Asia Society Meeting in New York on Friday Nov 30, 2007 which ‘mis’represented by Nasim Ashraf, Kashmala Tariq and Barrister Ali Saif My views before the event and after the event were all concentrated on the fact that this was sadly a pro-musharraf deal and Asia…

  • First Things First : Muneer Malik Op-Ed in Dawn

    Op-ed article published in Dawn, 6th December 2007 by Muneer A Malik, former president of the Supreme Court Bar Association who is currently hospitalised following renal failure during his detention in Attock jail It was heartening to see Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif finally sitting together. The formation of a joint ARD-APDM committee is a…