Tag: CrisisPk

  • Update @ 2345: PCO amended for Musharraf to retain power to lift emergency

    General Pervez Musharraf has amended the Provisional Constitution Order to retain the power of lifting the emergency as civilian president. Under the previous PCO, the power to lift emergency rests with the army chief. Now, the President says that he will doff his uniform by the end of November. The PCO Amendment Order empowers the…

  • Update @ 1900: Two Young Boys killed in Karachi unrest

    Two boys, aged 11 and 12, have been killed during unrest in a neighborhood of Karachi where supporters of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto have clashed with police since Thursday morning. Police said. “Two children have been killed in firing by unidentified men in the Lyari area,. “They’re also firing at the police. The firing…

  • Update @ 0500: Hundreds Rally in Manhattan to Support Pakistani Attorneys

    Hundreds Rally at Courthouse to Support Pakistani Attorneys,” New York Law Journal, “About 700 lawyers rallied yesterday afternoon in front of state Supreme Court in Manhattan to show support for lawyers and judges in Pakistan battling for the restoration of the rule of law. Addressing the throng that poured down the courthouse steps and spilled…

  • Update @ 1933: Imran Khan to be charged under terrorism law

    Geo News reports that the Lahore police have arrested and registered a case agaisnt Imran khan under the Anti-Terrorism law. Lahore Police Chief Malik Mohammad Iqbal has been quoted to have said “Through his speeches he has been inciting people to pick up arms, he has been calling for civil disobedience, he was spreading hatred,”

  • Update @ 1723: Observations after meeting the Non-PCO Judges

    Members of civil society, lawyers, business persons, doctors and womens rights and human rights ativists met with Judges who have not taken oath under the PCO to express solidarity and show support Following is a summary of this meeting. Treatment of Judges Guards were taken away the same night that emergency was declared. (Saturday 3rd…

  • Update @ 1633: I need to stay in Power, Musharraf tells Sky News

    President General Pervaiz Musharraf gave an interview to Sky’s Asia correspondent Alex Crawford today in response to the recent arrest of Imran Khan in Lahore, during the interview he told Sky News that “I am not a dictator, I want a democracy, the day when there is no turmoil in Pakistan, I will step down.”…

  • Update @ 1453: Imran Khan Beaten up and arrested

    A number of reports continue to pour in stating that Imran Khan did show up at Punjab University to present himself in the rally scheduled there for today. A group of students belonging to a another political party (Islami jamiat Talaba, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami) colluded with the administration and huddled Imran Khan into their…

  • Update @ 1418: IJT clashes with Imran Khan’s posse at PU

    Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief, Imran Khan, was badly beaten up by the IJT when he tried to surrender at Punjab University, Lahore. [Source: Indus News]

  • Update @ 1113: Assault on Protesting Students in Islamabad

    A report received via the People’s resistance mailing list from an activist in Islamabad On 12th November, 9 days after an unconstitutional act of emergency was declared, the regime crossed a new threshold by shamelessly attacking, arresting and detaining schoolchildren in Islamabad. A group of students, most of them between 14 and 18 years of…

  • Its time for street protests : Imran Khan

    Published in DAWN on November 13th By Shehar Bano Khan Looking defiant and all set to mobilise students on the streets on Wednesday (tomorrow) against Gen Musharrafs emergency rule, Pakistan Tereek-i-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan lashes out at the Washington plan of installing its dream team of moderates. Dismissing the election formula for being devised and…

  • Update @ 0539: Images from Nov 10th peace rally at Downing Street in London

    The following images were sent in to us by the People’s Resistance in London where over 1,000 people rallied last Saturday outside the UK Prime Minister’s residence on Downing Street to demand that Britain uses their influence in Islamabad to pressurize Musharaff to lift his martial law, hold elections, remove media curbs and release all…

  • Update @ 0503: Free and Fair Election Network on Elections Under Emergency – An Oxymoron

    Via e-mail from the Thematic Group Coordinator — Afreina Noor, at the FAFEN’s (Free and Fair Election Network) Secretariat in Islamabad, who sent in the text of their position paper on Elections Under Emergency – An Oxymoron. FAFEN is a coalition of thirty leading Pakistani civil society organizations and was established in 2006 to observe…

  • Update @ 0444: URGENT Notice to rally organizers & participants

    We have seen several calls to take children to rallies and demonstrations.  We urge every reader to leave children well supervised at home.  This is a dangerous practice and should not be done

  • Update @ 0319: Peace rally at Pakistan Consulate in New York – Nov 14

    Via an e-mail from the South Asian Law Student Association, comprising of students from the CUNY (City University of New York) School of Law, Columbia University, Hunter College and students from New Jersey schools who are holding a student-organized peace rally this week, on November 14th (Wednesday) outside the Consulate General of Pakistan in New…

  • Update @ 0230: People’s Resistance Action Update 12th Nov

    A number of concerned citizens of Karachi have joined together to form a loosely connected people who have started calling themselves the People’s Resistance, it remains peaceful initiative by civil society to peacefully rally against the recently imposed martial law The flash demonstrations were held at two venues. The first one at the Schoen Circle…