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  • 12 Human Rights NGO’s write to Condoleezza Rice

    Twelve Human Rights Organizations write a detailed letter to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the grave situation in Pakistan. The 12 NGO’s signing the letter are Amnesty International USA, The Carter Center, Freedom House, Global Rights, Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch, International Justice Mission, International League for Human Rights, Jacob Blaustein Institute…

  • A Macro-Analysis of Barrister Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsans Open Letter

    Guest post by Hassan Baig Hassan analyzes the realistic implication of the open letter written by Aitzaz Ahsan to the Pakistan Bar Council on Dec 5 Barrister Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan is a leader in his own right. A populist leader even. Moreover, his read of the political spectrum and all developing eventualities is sensible and…

  • Musharraf continues his rant ‘Former CJ was corrupt’

    An article written by Javed Siddique in The Nation titled ‘Former CJ was corrupt‘ gives an interesting insight into how Musharraf believed that an elaborate conspiracy was being hatched to unseat him from the throne of the President of Pakistan. At first I wanted to leave the full contents of the article intact without any…

  • The New Face of (Controlled) Media – An Open Letter

    An open letter written by Amna Piracha on the new face of controlled media under the PEMRA axe Mr. Mujahid Barelvi CNBC Islamabad Dear Mujahid, My encounter with you the other day left me disturbed. At first I thought I would let this pass but we are living through historic times and no matter who…

  • Report on the Karachi Press Club protest

    Report submitted by UZi on the People’s Resistance network on todays protest outside the Karachi Press Club Around 60 people gathered outside the Karachi Press Club at 03:00 p.m. today to register their protests against the treatment meted out to the Students Action Committee (SAC) rally in Islamabad. The demonstration was jointly organised by the…

  • Reception for the arrival of Justice Bhagwandas and Justice Rabbani to Karachi

    Reports are coming in that Justice Bhangwandas and Justice Rabbani are boarding a flight at 3:00pm from Lahore to insha-allah arrive at 4:45 to Karachi Airport for their first maiden voyage to this city after the upheaval of the November 3rd. People’s Resistance along with lawyers, trade unions and a number of NGO’s have planned…

  • ….the [word] Emergency has been LIFTED

    Dawn News reports that the President General (retired) Pervaiz Musharraf has lifted the state of emergency today only weeks before the January 8th elections, with a nurtured Judiciary, a limping media and a lap dog called ‘Democracy’ – “Yes, the emergency has been lifted, said a government official who declined to be identified !!!! [whats…

  • Hina Jilani tells America – Elections Pre-Rigged, No Monitoring Needed

    AFP Reports on the statements made by Hina Jilani, the special representative of the UN secretary general on human rights defenders – OTHER RELATED REPORTS – BBC, International Herald Tribune & School of Law at University of Pittsburgh A UN human rights envoy on Thursday told US lawmakers not to send any delegation to monitor…

  • 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…

  • The People – not just Civil Society – must Unite against the Common Enemies

    An Interesting article posted on the Emergency Times Mailing list By Yousuf NazarState of Pakistan> There comes a time in a Nations history that the people must take charge of their own destiny. The issue now is not: boycott or participate in the elections. People want a just society, the Pakistani nation wants true democracy,…

  • Election Plan in Jeopardy – A Discussion

    I am copying an email from discussion on the Mailing List Proud-Pakistani. Though I must agree that it may all boil down to be pure speculation but it does contain some interesting points worth pondering over I’ve [the author of the email discussion] been trying to make head or tail out of the present election…

  • 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…

  • This is the Time For Lawyers to Speak – Naomi Wolf

    Appeared on The Huffington Post We have all seen over the past couple of months pictures of brave lawyers in Pakistan risking their careers and even their own health and safety to stand up for their nation’s constitution. At the same time, we are witnessing at home a similar – if not quite as acute…

  • The Selection Commission of Pakistan

    Guest Post by Naeem Sadiq, published in Dawn 12th December 2007 Of the many gifts given to the nation by the Election Commission of Pakistan in 2002, there were some 68-odd fake degree holders and an equal number of those who were either loan defaulters or had their loans written off. Many others had the…

  • Benazir – Why the world needs democracy in Pakistan

    An Op-ed by Benazir Bhutto printed in Christian Science Monitor today, what one must note that Benazir has ranted about everything but the Judiciary, I share this piece here only to expose the hypocrisy of our so called leaders who hail themselves as the upholders of Democracy in Pakistan By Benazir Bhutto Dictatorship fuels extremism,…