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Update @ 2200: The police were brutal, today
Courtesy FASTRising @ 2018 Police is extremely aggressive today, visiting hospitals and arresting activists, who are trying to get treatment there. Athar Minallah (spokesperson of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry) has also been arrested. At least one activist has been taken to emergency after police torture. Iqbal Bali (age: 65+), a veteran activist, is still missing.…
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Update @ 2010: Initial reports from the Hum Logge Solidarity Rally in Islamabad
Sketchy details coming in from Islamabad: If anyone wishes to show solidarity with those injured and affected by the police attack can reach Aitzaz Ahsan’s residence in Islamabad. The rally was stopped by a very large posse of police (over 1000). Barbed wire was laid out on way leading to Aitzaz’s residence. As the group…
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Hum Logge Solidarity Rally in Islamabad Tear gassed & Arrests
The Hum Logge Solidarity Rally that was scheduled to be held in Islamabad today was heavily tear gassed and arrests have been made. Initial reports indicate that Athar Minallah and Tahira have been arrested. The tear gassing has stopped for a little while, updates to soon follow as they come in Details of the planned…
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People’s Resistance Activists Inteviewed in GT (Good Times) magazine
The latest publication of GoodTimes has around 36-pages of pictures and interviews with various civil society activists from Karachi and Lahore predominantly from the Karachi based People’s Resistance network. For the sake of posterity I have scanned the relevant pages (in low quality) and is now available for download, but to really enjoy the entire…
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AAJ TV Blackballed again because of Live with Talat
A day back around 11:30 at night on Feb 6th AAJ TV was suddenly taken off the air in the regions of Rawalpindi and Islamabad and according to AAJ it was blocked up to Chakwal 60 km away. Live with Talat was due to air a discussion with Nusrat Javeed while some sources say that…
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Scotland Yard – BB’s death from Shockwave NOT bullet
Well the news is making its rounds across the country that Scotland Yard has submitted a report that BB was killed by the shock wave from the bomb blast and not from a bullet [link]. It apparently seem to follow exactly in line with what the Government tried its best to pitch to the country…
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People’s Resistance Street Theater – Pictures
This Sunday a few members of the People’s Resistance held a street theater at Sea View Karachi which was a tremendous success. The pictures are as follows Link to the previous Street Theater
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Pakistan Army Helicopter Down?
In a tragic incident today a military helicopter crashed because of ‘technical reasons’ in practically the hot bed of armed conflict, South Waziristan. All eight passengers on board were killed including Major General Javed Sultan, the recently promoted as commanding officer of Kohat garrison as well as two brigadiers. However, The Insider Brief reports sources…
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Benazir Bhutto’s Will – I May Have Been Harsh
Guest blog by temporal from Baithak I have been writing about Benazir Bhutto’s will. Finally they released it today. The key sentence there is “I would like my husband Asif Ali Zardari to lead you in this interim until you and he decide what is best.” (emphasis mine) [Pending certification of this will by handwriting…
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Pakistan pushing out IRI Election Observers
In what continues to be trumpeted as a free and fair elections it seems the Government of Pakistan is keen to push out International Republican Institute (IRI) from properly monitoring the elections. IRI is a U.S. democracy-building institute funded by the US Congress and it has come on record to say that it is being…
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Zero Fervor for Elections
By Farooq Tariq spokesperson for the Labour Party Pakistan Thirteen days to go and yet there is no election excitement. There are no street corner meetings or large-scale public rallies. The main leadership of those parties participating in the elections plan no national tours. It could be the most colorless election in the history of…
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Pakistan’s Forgotten Man
By Aitzaz Ahsan for Newsweek February 11, 2008 In the past months, as the crisis in Pakistan has worsened, key figures in the Bush administration, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, have spoken out about the need for free and fair elections and have condemned extremism. Yet they’ve continued through-out to support the man who…
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Humor: Jat in London
Hit and run by Shakir Husain Published in The News Pakistan is lucky enough to have a visionary leader in the form of`Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain whose family has sacrificed so much for the people of Pakistan. So when this great leader’s younger brother Wajahat Hussain and three nephews were detained under the anti-terrorist law at…
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Wiredpakistan.com blocked in Pakistan
WiredPakistan.com a technology blog and the forum run by KO for the past year has in a very astonishing development come under the censorship umbrella as per the directive issued by Network Operations Center at the Pakistan Internet Exchange. A careful watch has been setup to monitor which ISP’s comply with this directive and as…
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Ali Ahmad Kurd re-detained for 30 days
Pakistani authorities have yet again detained Ali Ahmed Kurd only after releasing the lawyer jsut a few days ago. Ali Ahmad Kurd was first held in November when President Musharraf imposed emergency rule. He was released last week but has now been detained again. “Mr Kurd was trying to leave Quetta. He has been served…
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