Category: PML-Q

  • SAC Lahore activists thrashed again at Punjab College

    SAC Lahore is reporting that a few of its activists in Punjab College, Lahore were rounded up by about 10 college members and given a severe thrashing. The SAC volunteers were the same people who were served up a thrashing a day earlier as well, Defying the oppression he showed up once again at the…

  • Downing Street Protest – Pictures

    Pictures of the Anti-Musharraf protest on Downing Street, London – Credit PkPolitics & BBC Urdu Pictures

  • High Profile Deportation of Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain

    Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain, elder brother of PML (Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, was deported by British authorities when he arrived at Heathrow Airport from Spain. Wajahat had gone to London to lead a pro-Musharraf rally in London basically to counter the anti-Musharraf protests planned for his visit a few days later The prominent PML-Q leaders…

  • Postal workers in Lahore buying Votes for Rs 1,500 ($25) only ?

    Exposing election rigging is a tough job. as the onus of proof generally lies on the accuser, hence usually very tough to prove, at times opposing parties may even try to set each other up simply to humiliate them and pull a few extra votes in the process, everything seems to be fair in our…

  • Latest update on arrests in Dadu and Naushero Feroz, Sindh

    A few activists of the People’s Resistance are actively working in the interior sindh for standing up against this wave of arrests taking place today’s update is as follows Dadu: 235 FIRs registered and 50,400 people booked. 400 PPP workers nominated including both candidates for National Assembly Rafiq Jamali & Dr Talat Mahesar All candidates…

  • About 200,000 people Arrested in Sindh

    There are reports which are coming in for the past few days that a major crackdown is underway in Sindh specially targeting the workers of Pakistan People Party to an extent that there are official reports of around 0.2 million people that have been arrested for their involvement and activities in the rioting following the…

  • HRCP Statement “Civil society for change at the top, fairplay and citizens rights”

    Just received this press statement from Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on discussion about the present political situation in Pakistan and condemned the wide spread arrests being made of all opposition leaders HRCP Pakistan: Activists of civil society organizations and concerned citizens, including representatives of the four provinces, met at HRCP office in Lahore to…

  • Documentary on Emergency in Pakistan

    Interactive Resource Center as a PACFREL member developed a documentary on Emergency in Pakistan. The documentary provides glimpses of the crisis and highlighted movement of various segments of the society against emergency including lawyers, judiciary, media, political parities and civil society. Link: IRC

  • Chaudhry’s selling their assets – in Preparations ….?

    AAJ TV reports that the Chaudhry brothers, the movers and shakers of PML-Q since the past five years and a political ally of Pervaiz Musharraf are selling their assets in Pakistan and transferring their accumulated wealth to foreign lands. AAJ has received this privy information from sources very close to the Chaudhry Shujaat and Chaudhry…

  • From President Musharraf to President Zardari

    For many the headline itself is a scary thought, but I assure you its not unimaginable… Looking at the address by ‘Sir’ Musharraf to his humble servants today at 8pm was nothing even close to the ‘breaking news‘ we all expected but the more ‘shocking news’ was immediately following, the Press Conference by ‘Sir’ Zardari…

  • Daughters of Asma Jehangir Assaulted

    A statement has just be issued by the Asian Human Rights Commission calling attention to the assault on the daughters of Asma Jehangir, the leading Human Rights Activist in Pakistan where she alleges that her daughters assaulted and illegally held for several hours along with their friends by armed persons of the Pakistan Muslim League…

  • Report: ISI was diverting US aid to Rig the Elections

    This news report to many does not come as a surprise, as many independent observers including this scribe have been screaming all along that these elections are no where near the notion of being free and fair – these elections were being carefully heavily rigged and the results planned in the favor of the ruling…

  • A Possible Solution to the Mess in Pakistan

    It comes as no surprise that there is tremendous pressure on the Election Commission to hold the elections on time but the ruling elite know such a decision is doomsday for each one of them. Today yet again the spokesman for the Election Commission of Pakistan said that holding parliamentary elections as scheduled on January…

  • Benazir Bhutto’s Medical Report as issued by Govt of Pakistan

    Attached here are the medical reports from Rawalpindi General Hospital following the death of Benazir Bhutto. The report was provided by Athar Minallah, a board member of the hospital, who e-mailed reporters Bhutto’s medical record, signed by the seven surgeons who treated her.

  • Review of the Political Situation at the Dawn of a New Year

    With Sunday’s decision by the Pakistan People’s Party to contest the elections, it instantly threw the PML-Q and the ruling elite into a frenzy, the PML-Q had predicted this move and a day before had announced a complete stoppage of their election camping taking the excuse of deteriorating unrest in the country following the assassination…