Tag: CrisisPk

  • Update @ 1615: JUI-F Withdraws in favor of MQM, Rockets Fired in Jacobabad

    JUI-F a party of the ruling coalition has withdrawn in favor of MQM in Karachi and Sukkur. JUI-F a party of the ruling coalition [yet claiming to be in opposition] Also….several candidates from these parties in Sukkur announced support for each other in various PS seats this morning (KTN News) While there is reports of…

  • SMS Update @ 1545: PML-Q ransack ten polling agents

    SAC member Ahmed Iqbal reports from Narowal that PML-Q leagues armed gang members ransack ten poling stations, staff being harassed and PML-N agents thrown out

  • SMS Update @ 1530: SAC Member offered bribe

    SAC Lahore member Asif Mulick reports that supporters of Abdul Aleem offered him a Rs 2000 in cash to vote at Queen Mary polling station.

  • Beyond Belief: My first Pakistani voting experience – Narration from a Voter who witnessed cheating

    In NA-251 & PS-115 at PECHS Girls College, Karachi Reported on the People’s Resistance network The dhandli [cheating] I witnessed in the five minutes it took me to cast my first Pakistani vote was beyond even what a cynical person like myself could have imagined. I laughed in the face of its blatant-ness and had…

  • Summary of events at 1518 PST

    10 people killed so far today. Many injured. Blatant rigging. News of “staged” voting in front of foreign election observers News of abductions (atleast 4 PML-N workers’ abduction confirmed) TV Channel’s barred from conducting their own exit polls to verify the accuracy of the compiled results and not allowed to broadcast results without being “issued”…

  • SAC Hold Mock Elections in Lahore

    Members of the Student Action Committee had planned to hold mock elections in front of the Lahore High Court, reaching there early morning the police prevented them to setup camp but they instead continued the mock elections at another location. The turnout was massive with over 812 voters. Votes Against Musharraf = 782 Votes For…

  • Election begins with rigging, violence and trouble

    Not coming as much of a surprise, election starts off rather unpleasantly. Two friends who registered to vote in Islamabad went early to the polling station to find out that their names were missing from the designated polling station. Last night PML-N candidate Ch Asif Ashraf was assassinated in Lahore. In addition an MQM candidate…

  • Street Theater by People’s Resistance

    This Street Theater Play was enacted by the members of People’s Resistance back in late December, we were supposed to upload it soon after but the events of Dec 27th and the assassination of Benazir Bhutto put our plans in check. This was the first session of the play, since then the Street Theater team…

  • Media Restrictions Undermine Election: Human Rights Watch

    Human Rights Watch issues a statement on the restriction on the media, similarly Hamid Mir also shared his concerns just a day earlier in a letter to journalists of PFUJ. Threats and censorship against the independent media, bias in state television, and a widespread ban on live broadcasting are limiting the public’s right to information…

  • Jemima Inteview President Musharraf

    Published in The Independent, it is definitely worth reading. ‘Since you were so kind as to greet us in London at Downing Street last month, the President would like to return the favour,” announces Major-General Rashid Qureshi, President Pervez Musharraf’s PR man over the phone. Only in Pakistan could the government’s head of spin be…

  • Musharraf’s Understanding of Human Rights

    President Pervez Musharraf responds to a question posed by Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Roth asked Musharraf whether, in the interest of free debate before the February 18, 2008 parliamentary elections, he would release the judges and lawyers who were being held…

  • Hamid Mir shares his concerns about the restricted media

    Mr. Hamid Mir, a very prominent anchor of Geo TV who was banned from appearing on any TV show after the emergency shares his feelings in this letter submitted after the press conference he had on the invitation of Pakistan Federal Union Journalists . Its a must read specially if you want to understand whats…

  • Attorney General Qayyum Aware of Massive Election-Rigging Plans as early as Nov

    In an audio recording obtained by Human Rights Watch, Pakistans Attorney General [Mr. upsnoot] Malik Qayyum stated that upcoming parliamentary elections will be “massively rigged, Human Rights Watch said that the recording was made during a phone interview with a member of the media on November 21, 2007. Qayyum, while still on the phone interview,…

  • Seminar: Urbanization, Politics, Public & National Interests by Mr. Arif Hasan

    The Peoples Resistance would like to invite the general public for a talk on “URBANIZATION, POLITICS, PUBLIC AND NATIONAL INTERESTS” by Mr. Arif Hasan, a leading environmentalist, architect and people-oriented planner, on Sunday, 17th February, 2008, at 4 p.m. sharp at Shirkat Gah, 2 Bath Island Road, Parin Lodge, Karachi (near Bridge Store) Presented by…

  • Message from Aitzaz Ahsan to Pakistanis

    The following video has been obtained by Student Action Committee through special arrangements and SAC is releasing it for the general audience right now. The video includes a message to the people of Pakistan followed by a very inspirational poem by none other than Honorable Aitzaz Ahsan. It is addressed particularly to the youth and…