Category: Politics
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Update @ 1633: I need to stay in Power, Musharraf tells Sky News
President General Pervaiz Musharraf gave an interview to Sky’s Asia correspondent Alex Crawford today in response to the recent arrest of Imran Khan in Lahore, during the interview he told Sky News that “I am not a dictator, I want a democracy, the day when there is no turmoil in Pakistan, I will step down.”…
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Update @ 1453: Imran Khan Beaten up and arrested
A number of reports continue to pour in stating that Imran Khan did show up at Punjab University to present himself in the rally scheduled there for today. A group of students belonging to a another political party (Islami jamiat Talaba, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami) colluded with the administration and huddled Imran Khan into their…
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Update @ 1418: IJT clashes with Imran Khan’s posse at PU
Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief, Imran Khan, was badly beaten up by the IJT when he tried to surrender at Punjab University, Lahore. [Source: Indus News]
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Update @ 1113: Assault on Protesting Students in Islamabad
A report received via the People’s resistance mailing list from an activist in Islamabad On 12th November, 9 days after an unconstitutional act of emergency was declared, the regime crossed a new threshold by shamelessly attacking, arresting and detaining schoolchildren in Islamabad. A group of students, most of them between 14 and 18 years of…
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Its time for street protests : Imran Khan
Published in DAWN on November 13th By Shehar Bano Khan Looking defiant and all set to mobilise students on the streets on Wednesday (tomorrow) against Gen Musharrafs emergency rule, Pakistan Tereek-i-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan lashes out at the Washington plan of installing its dream team of moderates. Dismissing the election formula for being devised and…
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Update @ 0503: Free and Fair Election Network on Elections Under Emergency – An Oxymoron
Via e-mail from the Thematic Group Coordinator — Afreina Noor, at the FAFEN’s (Free and Fair Election Network) Secretariat in Islamabad, who sent in the text of their position paper on Elections Under Emergency – An Oxymoron. FAFEN is a coalition of thirty leading Pakistani civil society organizations and was established in 2006 to observe…
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Update @ 0319: Peace rally at Pakistan Consulate in New York – Nov 14
Via an e-mail from the South Asian Law Student Association, comprising of students from the CUNY (City University of New York) School of Law, Columbia University, Hunter College and students from New Jersey schools who are holding a student-organized peace rally this week, on November 14th (Wednesday) outside the Consulate General of Pakistan in New…
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Update @ 0230: People’s Resistance Action Update 12th Nov
A number of concerned citizens of Karachi have joined together to form a loosely connected people who have started calling themselves the People’s Resistance, it remains peaceful initiative by civil society to peacefully rally against the recently imposed martial law The flash demonstrations were held at two venues. The first one at the Schoen Circle…
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Update @ 0340: Diwali with Justice Rana Bhagwandas
Apparently some people went and met Justice Bhagwandas’s family in Karachi on the occasion of Diwali, and some also managed to go and express solidarity with him in Islamabad. An Email from Islamabad: Citizens of Islamabad gathered outside Civil Junction to celebrate Diwali in solidarity with the Honourable Justice Rana Bhagwandas, our courageous ‘Prisoner of…
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Update @ 0320: People’s Resistence issues a Statement to Support Judiciary
A group of concerned citizens from the People’s Resistance (umbrella group formed to resist the ’emergency’) have been meeting the non-PCO judges over the last few days to extend solidarity and appreciate their stand. Below please see a summary of the key points that emerged from these meetings Civil society coalition, People’s Resistance, is appalled…
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Update @ 0115: Petition to stop procedings on President’s Election case
A Petition was field today in the Supreme Court by Mr. Wajihuddin Ahmed asking the sitting judges to halt the constitutional petition challenging the validity of the election of the President General Pervaiz Mushrraf for the second term in office. The seven point petition goes to explain a number of unconstitutional steps taken to halt…
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Update @ 0106: DC rally – Hey hey Ho ho, Musharraf has to go!
..is the chant sounding all around the Pakistani embassy today at the peace rally in Washington DC where a lot of lawyers are also seen in the crowd.
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Update @ 0040: Imran Khan vows Protest
Imran Khan has vowed that he continues to lead full-fledged struggle against these recent unconstitutional steps taken by the Government to clamp down on the voice of opposition and he hoped that the youth could be mobilized in this connection. The PTI chief expressed concern that we must prepare for some more unconstitutional steps to…
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Update @ 2337: Protest underway in Washington DC right now
DC protest has started successfully. Speeches are being delivered. About 100 people are here. Chants of Musharraf Must Go are all around
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Update @ 2103: Joint Indo-Pak Peace Network call for removal of martial law
The joint Indian-Pakistan Peace Network have issued a statement expressing deep concern about the imposition of emergency in Pakistan: “The Diaspora of India and Pakistan, in particular the citizens of Pakistan living in Canada, are deeply saddened and gravely concerned on the imposition of a state of emergency in Pakistan by General Pervez Musharraf. We…