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  • A Demented Musharraf talks to Newsweek

    Newsweek Online has published excerpts of an interview with General (retired) Pervaiz Musharraf taken a few days before the Martial Law was lifted. I share it with you since reading the entire interview one does get an eerie bone chilling sensation that Musharraf has completely lost his sanity and seems to be raging maniac out…

  • Woh Eid e Nazzara

    Guest Blog by Sophia Ali Fellow Pakistanis, I am outraged like many of you by the sheer brutality of the treatment meted out to Aitzaz Ahsan, and that too on Eid! My salutations to you Aitzaz and to all the heroes of the resistance. May Allah bring our struggle to fruition! Woh Eid e Nazzara…

  • 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…

  • Aitzaz Ahsan Beaten & Detained – Vigils held in Karachi & Lahore

    Posted on the Emergency Times mailing list and also on the People’s Resistance Aitzaz Ahsan was picked up on the motorway enroute to Islamabad, beaten up, glasses broken and brought back to Lahore in a police bus. Is now suffering from bruises and fever.When he asked for a detention order, they shoved a gun in…

  • Eid morning Police Action in Islamabad

    Posted on the People’s Resistance network Activists, mainly lawyers, gathered at the entrance to the judges colony at 7:30 this morning. The police had completely blocked the way to the Chief Justice’s residence with concrete blocks and barbed wires. The protesters gathered at the police barrier which happened to be at the entrance to the…

  • Ticket to Heavens – at the tax payers’ expense

    Posted on the People’s Resistance network by Naeem Sadiq Is there a relationship between the corruption and mismanagement of rulers and the number of times they perform umrahs and hajj. While a formal research on this subject may yet not be available, the performance of our contemporary leaders provides some very useful insight. Mr. Jinnah,…

  • Chief Justice, Aitezaz & other Judges to offer Eid prayers at Faisal Mosque

    Posted on the Emergency Times website The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, will offer Eid prayers at the Faisal Mosque, Islamabad, for which he has been granted ‘temporary’ release from his illegal imprisonment. The other Honorable Judges will accompany him as well. Fellow Pakistanis are urged to gather at 7.30am tomorrow at…

  • 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…

  • Miss Constitution of Pakistan

    Thrashed, battered and raped, Miss Constitution is now expected to resume working albeit with only a few ‘unnoticeable’ changes. General (retarted) Pervaiz Musharraf claims to his gawds (sic) that he has ‘apparently’ restored it completely, and hopes [keeping his fingers crossed] that the world embraces his call [circus] for a free and fair Selection on…

  • 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…

  • Pictures of Islamabad Protest – ‘The Day After’ the Emergency was Lifted

    Read the full report here

  • 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…

  • Demonstration against Police and States Brutalities

    Several activists of civil society (the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Peoples Resistance, Women Action Forum, Interntaional Socialists Karachi, Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party, Labour Party of Pakistan, Roots Foundation and others) gathered outside Karachi Press Club today with placards and banners and staged a demonstration against the large scale arrest, severe lathi charge, tear gas…

  • 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…