Category: Politics
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Protest in Hague, Holland – 1st Dec
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Protest in Berlin, Germany – 1st Dec
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Ms. Bhutto, A free Judiciary But Detained Judges – An Open Letter by Ghazala Minallah
An open letter written by Ghazala Minallah d/o Late Justice Safdar Shah to Benazir Bhutto Dear Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, I was absolutely shocked and amazed at your latest statement regarding the judiciary. How could you, of all people, say that you believed in an independent judiciary BUT that personalities did not matter? If personalities did…
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US Human Rights Activists Stage 24-Hour Vigil at the Home of Aitzaz Ahsan
When: 12 noon, December 2 until 12 noon, December 3 Where: 5 Zeman Park, Lahore Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry, members of the U.S. human rights group Global Exchange and the women¹s peace group CODEPINK, came to Pakistan to learn about the political situation since emergency rule was declared on November 3. One of the…
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CodePink – Vigil Outside a “Sub-Jail” in Lahore
CodePink activists were in Karachi for a few days and later headed off to the northern areas to take more part in the Anti-Martial law activities. Reaching Lahore they have already started making a ruckus and an article by Medea Benjamin on their visit to Aitzaz Ahsan’s house where he has been placed under house…
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Youtube of the People’s Resistance run in with the Police last Sunday
If many might recall the People’s Resistance had a small run-in with the police which almost ended up in a few arrests [Update 1] [Update 2] & [Final Report with pictures], but luckily after some intense negotiations every one was let go, members of the CodePink organization had just landed in Karachi a day earlier…
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Asia Society update : Ali Ahsan makes a point while Conversation remained pro-Musharraf
As per my rant barely a day back on the upcoming discussion at Asia Society on Pakistan where three (pro-government) panelists were invited to present the case for the Government of Pakistan. It started off with Nasim Ashraf who may have been the only one to have argued well at the forum, it soon followed…
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Candle light vigil outside Karachi Press Club
A candle light vigil was organized in support of restoration of democracy back in Pakistan, participants held candles for about one hour, while a number of passerby’s signed the posters on the wall with their comments. It was a touching moment when we encounter an illiterate person who could not write and yet wanted to…
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Musharraf’s Supporters out in full force
Credit = KB
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Shahbaz Sharif’s nomination papers rejected
The Returning Officer Ashtar Abbas rejected the nomination papers Mian Shahbaz Sharif for one National Assembly (NA 119) seat and two Provincial Assembly (PP 141 and PP 142) seats. Tariq Badaruddin Banday, a candidate from NA 119 filed objection against nomination papers of Shahbaz Sharif that the brother of Nawaz Sharif was a bank defaulter.…
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Open letter from Salman Ahmed to Bilal Musharraf
I share with you an open letter sent by Salman Ahmed of Junoon to Bilal Musharraf, son of General Pervaiz Muhsarraf, I had received the email directly from Salman but had resisted the urge to post it since I thought he may have not meant it to go public, but when I read that this…
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Eye witness account of Lahore Protest
A report of the Students Action Committee protest on 30th November as posted by The Neem Revolution on The Emergency Times Students from 21 universities, under the banner of Student Action Committee Lahore, gathered today at Liberty Chowk to publicly voice their dissent. The streets were lined with hundreds of Police Elite forces which warned…
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Students Action Committee Protest in Islamabad
An eyewitness account of the protests organized by Students Action Committee in Islamabad published by The Neem Revolution at The Emergency Times The Protest Rally in Islamabad on Friday turned out to be a huge success, with around 300 people showing up to express their outrage at the continued subversion of the judiciary and media,…
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Pictures from Students Action Committee protest in Lahore
Credit : The Emergency Times
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Musharraf, transformation from a human to a dictator
Found these images at Al-Qamar which I thought were interesting to see how a regular army officers could transform himself from a simple young military officer barely making Rs.30,000 a month into a ruthless cold-hearted multi-million dollar dictator. Probably one of the biggest hazards of stying in power for too long, one tends to loose…