Tag: CrisisPk
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Update @ 2017: United Teachers’ Forum stage vigil at Karachi University tomorrow
Via e-mail from Dr. Riaz at the University of Karachi: Please join us at a Vigil to show our solidarity with those arrested since November 03, 2007, on Tuesday November 13 (tomorrow), 1pm outside Audio Visual Centre (near the Dean of Art’s Office) at Karachi University which is being organised by United Teachers’ Forum. Everyone…
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Update @ 1709: Rally in front of PEMRA in Karachi
25 people marched from Schon Circle to the PEMRA (Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority) office, where they held a 10 minute protest. This wasn’t a silent rally.
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Update @ 1708: Another bomb blast in Peshawar
At 1600, a bomb exploded in Peshawar, near the old city area . There are no reported casualties.
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Update @ 1655: Flash peace rally in Karachi today
About 20 brave women protested at Schon Circle in Karachi today, despite police presence.
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Update @ 1139: First hand account of leading lawyer jailed at Sabzazar Police station
The following is a first hand account of being jailed at the Sabzazar Police Station, via e-mail coming in from Dr. Parvez Hassan who is an eminent lawyer that was arrested by the Pakistani security forces on November 5: They herded lawyers in the police bus, about 35 of us. I knew nothing about where…
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Update @ 0340: Diwali with Justice Rana Bhagwandas
Apparently some people went and met Justice Bhagwandas’s family in Karachi on the occasion of Diwali, and some also managed to go and express solidarity with him in Islamabad. An Email from Islamabad: Citizens of Islamabad gathered outside Civil Junction to celebrate Diwali in solidarity with the Honourable Justice Rana Bhagwandas, our courageous ‘Prisoner of…
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Update @ 0320: People’s Resistence issues a Statement to Support Judiciary
A group of concerned citizens from the People’s Resistance (umbrella group formed to resist the ’emergency’) have been meeting the non-PCO judges over the last few days to extend solidarity and appreciate their stand. Below please see a summary of the key points that emerged from these meetings Civil society coalition, People’s Resistance, is appalled…
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Update @ 0115: Petition to stop procedings on President’s Election case
A Petition was field today in the Supreme Court by Mr. Wajihuddin Ahmed asking the sitting judges to halt the constitutional petition challenging the validity of the election of the President General Pervaiz Mushrraf for the second term in office. The seven point petition goes to explain a number of unconstitutional steps taken to halt…
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Update @ 0106: DC rally – Hey hey Ho ho, Musharraf has to go!
..is the chant sounding all around the Pakistani embassy today at the peace rally in Washington DC where a lot of lawyers are also seen in the crowd.
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Update @ 0040: Imran Khan vows Protest
Imran Khan has vowed that he continues to lead full-fledged struggle against these recent unconstitutional steps taken by the Government to clamp down on the voice of opposition and he hoped that the youth could be mobilized in this connection. The PTI chief expressed concern that we must prepare for some more unconstitutional steps to…
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Update @ 0026: Petitions signed against martial law at DC protest / Part – 2
There have been numerous speeches. A lot of media presence is here. People are signing petitions against the Martial Law in Pakistan.
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Update @ 0022: Demonstrators increase during DC Protest / Part – 1
There are over 150 people here protesting against the Martial Law in Pakistan. We want civil Law not Martial law is what everyone is on about.
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Update @ 2337: Protest underway in Washington DC right now
DC protest has started successfully. Speeches are being delivered. About 100 people are here. Chants of Musharraf Must Go are all around
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Update @ 2103: Joint Indo-Pak Peace Network call for removal of martial law
The joint Indian-Pakistan Peace Network have issued a statement expressing deep concern about the imposition of emergency in Pakistan: “The Diaspora of India and Pakistan, in particular the citizens of Pakistan living in Canada, are deeply saddened and gravely concerned on the imposition of a state of emergency in Pakistan by General Pervez Musharraf. We…
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Update @ 2013: Police raids, more arrests and websites blocked
Via an IPS journalist and one of our SMS reporters on the ground: – The central leader of the Communist Party of Pakistan — Jam Saqi, was away while police raided his house in Hyderababad – A heavy police contingent is visible outside the Karachi Press Club while PPP activists Saeed Boota, Anis Fatima and…