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Category: Politics

  • Asia Society Town Hall Meeting: Crisis in Pakistan

    Asia Society is arranging a special Emergency Town Hall Meeting on the Crisis in Pakistan to take place at the Society’s New York Headquarters, Thursday 11/8 at 8:30 am eastern. The speakers include Robert Templer of the International Crisis Group, Saeed Shafqat of the Centre for Public policy and Governance, and Daniel Markey of the…

  • SC Order dt 3rd Nov, before Bench Thrown Out

    I have just obtained a copy of the Original supreme court order which was issued by the Honorable Supremer Court Judges before they were unlawfully overthrown by the Pharaoh (!). On the fateful day on 3rd November when General Pervaiz Musharraf proclaimed Martial Law on Pakistan the then sitting bench of the Supreme Court was…

  • Update @ 0015: Shahbaz Sharif urges students – rally peacefully

    I have just got off the phone with Nawaz Sharif’s younger brother in the UK — Shahbaz Sharif, who gave out important advice for students and asked for the following message to be sent out to all students in Pakistan and overseas who are attending rallies, that they must remain peaceful and keep rallies non-violent:…

  • Imran Khan gives message of Resistance

    A video message by Imran Khan recorded from an undisclosed location while he is defying arrest. Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Justice Party) urges the youth to stand up for the country, while he asks the west to understand the fact that Musharraf is not fighting a war of terrorism but using this…

  • Update @ 13:40: Police Outside LUMS, Lahore

    An email has just come in that the Inspector General Police has given orders to the Police, Rangers and Ant-Terrorist Force to arrest the students from LUMS where a protest rally was scheduled today at 13:00 Four Army trucks and a police convoy have been positioned outside LUMS. The protest is still to proceed only…

  • Avvaz.org Petition: End the Emergency in Pakistan

    If you sincerely believe in calling for the restoration of democracy in Pakistan the please sign up for the petition at avvaz.org Pakistan is on the brink. Unpopular president General Musharraf has imposed martial law, sacked the Supreme Court and shut down the media and basic freedoms. Now he is abusing the threat of terrorism…

  • Update @ 2145: PPP (political) rally in Islamabad tomorrow

    An update has come in that the PPP (Pakistan People’s Party) are planning to organize a rally to be staged tomorrow (Wednesday) which starts off at 4pm in front of the Parliament House in Islamabad. Benazir Bhutto who has now landed in Islamabad appeared earlier this evening on private media channels to encourage people to…

  • Update @ 13:45: Phones cut in Islamabad

    Reports are coming in, that cell phones have been disconnected in the capital city of Islamabad in an attempt to disrupt the speech of the sacked Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to a meeting of lawyers by telephone. Its been reported that after a few minutes into the speech the line that the judge was…

  • Does Musharraf face risk of a coup?

    Early today morning there were strong rumors throughout he country that the junior squadron of Army leadership had turned onto Musharraf and had him under house arrest, the rumor fizzled out to be smoke and Musharraf went on record to state that this was ‘a joke of the highest degree’ An interesting article by BBC…

  • A funny side to the Newsweek article on Pakistan

  • Elections can be Delayed by a Year – Shaukat Aziz

    Dawn News reported today a statement by Prime Minster Shaukat Aziz Parliament can delay elections for a year: PM Shaukat Aziz ISLAMABAD, Nov 4 (AFP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Sunday that parliament is entitled to delay elections for a year under a state of emergency, but added that the government had not yet made…

  • ‘Phone call’ that led to Emergency

    As mentioned previously in one of my post barely a day back when discussing Benazir’s exit out of the country, I suspected that something was a foot regarding the Presidential Petition decision and it could be possible that the Supreme Court judges might revolt, well now with the martial law in full force I think…

  • Where do we go from here? – Najam Sethi

    Published in the 4th November edition of Daily Times by the editor-in-chief of Daily Times, I think he has outlined the issue quite well and its worth reading News analysis: Where do we go from here? By Najam Sethi Several points are interesting and significant about last nights political rupture. We have a state of…

  • Update @ 0244: Geo TV’s website back online

    Geo TV is now back online and have posted an announcement on their homepage stating that due to enormously heavy traffic on their website, they are presenting a light text-version with latest news updates while the full version of the website will be available in a few hours. A summary of the main points of…

  • Musharraf’s taped address to nation – Part 4

    it saddens me the most that after all we have achieved in 7 years, pakistan’s upsurge taking a downward trend, i personally with all facts available to me, consider that inaction at this moment is suicide for pakistan and i can not allow this country to commit suicide. therefore, i had to take this action…