Teeth Maestro

Category: Politics

  • Update @ 1715: Shahbaz Sharif faces arrest

    Dawn reports that Shahbaz Sharif faces a possible arrest over murder charges dating back to 1998. An anti-terrorism court in Lahore issued contempt notices to two police officers for not arresting Shahbaz Sharif for having allegedly ordered security forces to kill suspected criminals in a shootout eight years ago, when he was chief minister of…

  • SMS Update @ 1618: Student protest in Islamabad

    We were brutally lathi-charged [Baton Charged]. Got hit thrice on my head and then on my arms and hands when I tried to protect my head. Women were punched. Head hurts but we didn’t give in. They were forced to let us move forward. We’re outside the Islamabad Press Club now. SMS Blogger from Islamabad

  • SMS Update @ 1537: Student Action Committee protest in Islamabad

    100-something people and growing. Stand off with police who’re not allowing us to march to the press club. Negotiations are on, SMS Blogger from Islamabad

  • Pictures of Protest outside Aitzaz Ahsan’s house

    Codepink activist Medea and Teghe seen passionately fighting for the cause, more images can be seen on Naeem Rashid‘s Flickr pages

  • Update @ 1343: LUMS Besieged, Important information for Islamabad

    The Emergency Moderator mailing list has yet another update Lahore: LUMS student representatives communicated with a senior police official who informed them that any student who has been active in protests lately will be arrested. The student, whose identity can not be revealed for safety reasons, was shown pictures of students the police will arrest…

  • Update @ 1320: Chaos in Lahore

    Emergency Moderator writes an update on the situation in Lahore There is a successful sit-in continuing outside Justice Shahid Siddiqui’s House (the Punjab government is trying to forcibly evict him because he didn’t take oath under the PCO – this is in violation to their own rules, which state that even on forced retirement an…

  • Update @ 1138: LUMS besiged by Police

    The first update from The Emergency Times on the LUMS standoff LUMS is currently surrounded by police personnel who have set up barricades near the front entrance. Inspection of all traffic going in and out of the University is underway. The professed motive is to prevent students from attending today’s student rally at the Press…

  • Police Barricade LUMS, showdown expected

    Updates coming in from The Emergency Times network that the police have surrounded LUMS in anticipation for the 3pm protest outside the Lahore Press Club Police and intelligence agents have surrounded the Lahore University of Management Sciences campus with the intention of stopping students from going to today’s protest. Policemen have severely restricted movement into…

  • Pakistan stops US Ambassador Annie Patterson from seeing Aitzaz Ahsan

    Police stopped U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson on Monday from meeting Aitzaz Ahsan, who has been placed under house arrest since Nov 3rd. Ahsan was detained under emergency powers invoked by President Musharraf on November 3. The legal counsel for CJP Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry was held at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for nearly three weeks before…

  • Justice Shahid Siddiqi’s eviction orders in Lahore

    The People’s Resistance network is abuzz with news that Justice Shahid Siddiqui is being evicted from his home in Lahore Asad Jamal in Lahore messaged at about 10.30 pm that Justice Shahid Siddiqui may be evicted from his official residence now. He later sent a text message saying: “Scores of lawyers & civil society activists…

  • Protest in Stockholm, Sweden

  • Pakistani Election Commission bars Nawaz Sharif

    Pakistan’s Election Commission Monday barred former prime minister and opposition leader Nawaz Sharif from a January 8 general election because of past criminal convictions. “His nomination papers are rejected because of his convictions, presiding election official Raja Qamaruzaman told Reuters in Lahore. Its interesting to note that Mr. Nawaz Sharif in his hate to get…

  • Save Judiciary, Save Pakistan

    Originally Flickr’d by Techunar I feel these two words truly interlinked. How can we expect to do anything in Pakistan, let alone run a country without an independent Judiciary. It has been my view that the present crop of politicians over the past 22 years (1985 to present) have repeatedly proven to have little care…

  • PML-N to reverse boycott decision soon

    There are reports coming in from a number of news agencies that PML-N will very soon reverse their decision to boycott and succumb to the demands of their party stalwarts and contest the election. I truly feel that contesting the elections will only provide Musharraf with even more legitimacy to continue his reign on this…

  • Aitzaz Ahsan House Arrest extend for another 30 days – 24 hr Vigil Report

    CodePink activists who have stationed themselves outside of Aitzaz Ahsan’s house in Lahore have reported that they have received confirmation that the police has just issued order to extend the house arrest of Aitzan Ahsan for another 30 days. Talking to Tighe Barry via phone just now he said that the Lahore winter was quite…