Category: Technology
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Dublin Protest outside the Irish Parliament – 1st Dec
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SMS Update @ 0024: Citizens arrested in Lahore from outside J Shahid’s House
Citizens outside Justice Siddiqui’s house have been arrested and taken to Racecourse Jail in Lahore
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SMS Update @ 1406: Urgent from Lahore, state trying to evict Justice Shahid
I just got this update from a CMKP comrade in Lahore: “We are at the house of Justice Shahid Siddique. The State is trying to evict him by force.” SMS Blogger
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SMS Update: Justice Shahid is feared to be evicted
Strong reports that Justice Shahid maybe evicted at 2 am by heavy force. Vigil is ON. A call is being issued country wide to urge the Law Minister – Afzal Haider to stop this brutality
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SMS Update @ 1822: Islamabad student’s protest
The protest is over. It was uber-successful. Heads and arms are swollen, courtesy the dandas, and voices are hoarse, courtesy the naareybaazi, but our spirits are high. Arrests have been made, but the bottomline is that we defeated the State today. “Tulaba kia maangey — AZADI!!!” SMS Blogger from Islamabad
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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
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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
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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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The Real News: Musharaff loses uniform, stays in power
The Real News network talks to Beena Sarwar about the recent move by Musharraf to shed his unifrom, and simply said Musharaff’s actions are symbolic, it’s a martial law in disguise [link]
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Watch Live with Talat
PART 1 PART 2 PART 3
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Muneer A. Malik talks from Hosptial bed in PIMS
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Missing in Pakistan – Documentary
A very touching film which must be watched by all alike, it was set to be released on Nov 21st in a viewing at FAST-NU Lahore but the authorities clamped down on this and prevented the viewing. Since then it has moved on to the digital world originally uploaded at [ The Critique Aggregator ]…
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Don’t Give Up – Pakistan
I would like to share with you this music video titled Don’t Give Up sung by Willie Nelson & Sinead O’Connor (originally sung by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush) which was sent to me by Salman Ahmed of Junoon fame. This powerful song caries a message of hope maybe to inspire those passionate Pakistanis who…
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Update @ 0126: Geo.tv gets another DDoS attack & Teeth Maestro suffers slow downs
According to the Geo.tv website at around 8PM a serious of DDoS attacks started to go onto the website which was brought under control by midnight. This is the second time such an incident has happened at the Geo.tv website the first one was on November 10th when the Pakistani media giant suffered the first…