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Tag: Aitzaz Ahsan

  • Jadoogar of Jeddah [aka Sharifuddin Pirzada], Dirty Business all Over Again

    The New York Times just recently published an article titled ‘On Retainer in Pakistan, to Ease Military Rulers Path’ which looks into depth at the involvement of Mr. Sharifuddin Pirzada in helping General (retired) Prevaiz Musharraf in blatantly uprooting the constitution and enforcing a state of Emergency on November 3rd. This aged lawyer at 84…

  • Questions for Musharraf and Bush – By Aitzaz Ahsan

    Article published in The Washington Post By John F. Tierney and Aitzaz Ahsan One of us chairs a House of Representatives subcommittee tasked with oversight of U.S. foreign policy, and one of us languishes under house arrest after transfer from a Pakistani jail for the “heinous” and “seditious” crime of representing, in legal proceedings, the…

  • Aitzaz Ahsan Boycotts Elections

    Today the legal community is celebrating with the news that Aitzaz Ahsan has finally decided to boycott the elections, in effect culminating in a full and total boycott by the legal community in Pakistan, barring those lap-dogs hungry for power. Aitzaz Ahsan had initially written in a letter to the Bar Council outlining his strategy…

  • Open letter to BB: Why I left PPP

    A lengthy but interesting letter shared on the Emergency Time Mailing List, worth reading to understand the frustrations faced by a PPP supporter Dear Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, Assalam alaikum. After resigning from the basic membership of the Pakistan Peoples Party on 27 Nov, 2007, I am writing this letter to you elaborating my views, as…

  • A Lawyers Ordeal

    (Munir A Malik narrates a chilling account of his imprisonment and near-fatal illness caused by negligence) By Beena Sarwar “It was psychological torture to the worst degree,” says Munir A Malik, former President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), talking about his three-week ordeal in prison before he was belatedly taken to hospital with renal failure.…

  • Musharraf’s teams Mis-statements at Asia Society

    A detailed rebuttal to Musharraf PR Teams Mis-statements at Asia Society Meeting in New York on Friday Nov 30, 2007 which ‘mis’represented by Nasim Ashraf, Kashmala Tariq and Barrister Ali Saif My views before the event and after the event were all concentrated on the fact that this was sadly a pro-musharraf deal and Asia…

  • Aitzaz Ahsan Addresses the Legal Fraternity While Under House Arrest

    Letter written by Aitzaz Ahsan from his sub-jail in Lahore to the legal fraternity while under house arrest My dear colleagues, Asalam o alaikum. As I write this from a sub-Jail, let me tell you how proud I am of each one of you and of myself to be part of the community that is…

  • US Activists Arrested at Gunpoint, Forced to Leave the Country

    U.S. human rights activists Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry were arrested in Lahore, Pakistan at 8:30pm on Wednesday, December 4 after attending a student rally at the Lahore Press Club. Upon leaving the Club in the company of several journalists, the car they were driving in was pulled off the road. Armed policemen jumped out…

  • Update @ 0209: US Activists released on condition they leave Pakistan immediately

    UPDATE from CODEPINK website: Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry, US Human Rights activists have been released from ISI (Pakistani intelligence agencies) custody, they are safe though quite shaken up. The two have had their visas revoked and are being forcibly removed from the country on an early morning flight (in just a few hours Lahore…

  • US Human Rights Activists Harassed by Pakistani Government

    U.S. human rights activists Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry were on their way to a student rally at the Lahore Press Club at 3pm on Tuesday, December 4, when they were stopped outside the Club gates by six plainclothes government agents. They were told they had to leave the country because their visas had expired.…

  • Pictures of Protest outside Aitzaz Ahsan’s house

    Codepink activist Medea and Teghe seen passionately fighting for the cause, more images can be seen on Naeem Rashid‘s Flickr pages

  • Pakistan stops US Ambassador Annie Patterson from seeing Aitzaz Ahsan

    Police stopped U.S. Ambassador Anne Patterson on Monday from meeting Aitzaz Ahsan, who has been placed under house arrest since Nov 3rd. Ahsan was detained under emergency powers invoked by President Musharraf on November 3. The legal counsel for CJP Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry was held at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for nearly three weeks before…

  • Aitzaz Ahsan House Arrest extend for another 30 days – 24 hr Vigil Report

    CodePink activists who have stationed themselves outside of Aitzaz Ahsan’s house in Lahore have reported that they have received confirmation that the police has just issued order to extend the house arrest of Aitzan Ahsan for another 30 days. Talking to Tighe Barry via phone just now he said that the Lahore winter was quite…

  • US Human Rights Activists Stage 24-Hour Vigil at the Home of Aitzaz Ahsan

    When: 12 noon, December 2 until 12 noon, December 3 Where: 5 Zeman Park, Lahore Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry, members of the U.S. human rights group Global Exchange and the women¹s peace group CODEPINK, came to Pakistan to learn about the political situation since emergency rule was declared on November 3. One of the…

  • CodePink – Vigil Outside a “Sub-Jail” in Lahore

    CodePink activists were in Karachi for a few days and later headed off to the northern areas to take more part in the Anti-Martial law activities. Reaching Lahore they have already started making a ruckus and an article by Medea Benjamin on their visit to Aitzaz Ahsan’s house where he has been placed under house…