Tag: CrisisPk

  • People’s Resistance Street Theater – Pictures

    This Sunday a few members of the People’s Resistance held a street theater at Sea View Karachi which was a tremendous success. The pictures are as follows Link to the previous Street Theater

  • Pakistan pushing out IRI Election Observers

    In what continues to be trumpeted as a free and fair elections it seems the Government of Pakistan is keen to push out International Republican Institute (IRI) from properly monitoring the elections. IRI is a U.S. democracy-building institute funded by the US Congress and it has come on record to say that it is being…

  • Zero Fervor for Elections

    By Farooq Tariq spokesperson for the Labour Party Pakistan Thirteen days to go and yet there is no election excitement. There are no street corner meetings or large-scale public rallies. The main leadership of those parties participating in the elections plan no national tours. It could be the most colorless election in the history of…

  • Pakistan’s Forgotten Man

    By Aitzaz Ahsan for Newsweek February 11, 2008 In the past months, as the crisis in Pakistan has worsened, key figures in the Bush administration, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, have spoken out about the need for free and fair elections and have condemned extremism. Yet they’ve continued through-out to support the man who…

  • Ali Ahmad Kurd re-detained for 30 days

    Pakistani authorities have yet again detained Ali Ahmed Kurd only after releasing the lawyer jsut a few days ago. Ali Ahmad Kurd was first held in November when President Musharraf imposed emergency rule. He was released last week but has now been detained again. “Mr Kurd was trying to leave Quetta. He has been served…

  • The Youth Revolution in Pakistan

    I share with you an email written by Masood Sharif Khan Khattak who discusses the youth revolution in Pakistan following the ordeal faced by a few young activists of Student Action Committee in Lahore Assalam Alaikum All, The younger generation of Pakistan gives me a lot of hope that all may not be lost as…

  • With extreme prejudice?

    A volunteer from the Student Action Committee writes on the SAC Lahore incident based on narratives by the SAC Lahore activist who were roughed up in Punjab College On two consecutive days, 1st and 2nd February, the staff (security personnel as well as faculty members) of Punjab College, Muslim Town have tried to deny the…

  • SAC Lahore, exposes Punjab College & Caretaker Minister for Special Education

    SAC Lahore held a press conference today at 1:00pm against the Punjab College and its administration for attacking their activists yesterday The Students Action Committee (Lahore) held a short but vehement protest against the brutal assault by Punjab College’s establishment on four SAC representatives and a bystander driver. Held outside the Press club today at…

  • Kiyani & Musharraf, all seems not to well

    A picture is worth a thousand words Credit: WhizNews Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Kayani and President (retired Gen and former COAS) Pervez Musharraf sit together during the missile training launch of Ghauri (Hatf V). According to analysts, their postures and body languages indicate “all’s not well” between the two. It has been reliably…

  • Justice Tariq Advised Physiotherapy & Surgery

    It has been reported in Dawn that Justice Tariq has been advised physiotherapy for his ailing backche and swollen knees and with further investigation it reveled that he had a hair line fracture in his left knee Doctors at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) here on Saturday advised physiotherapy to justice Tariq Mehmood…

  • Rally Pictures from Nasir Bagh, Lahore

    Credit: The Emergency Times – LINK

  • Report From Lahore: SAC Members brutally attacked at Punjab College

    A detailed report of the incident that occurred today at Punjab College which involved the roughing up of activists of Student Action Committee. Published in the Emergency Times Blog – [llink] Today, the true nature of the establishment was unleashed in full colours. As a sequel to yesterday’s assault against a PU teacher and an…

  • Arif Hasan talks on “Urbanization, Politics, Public & National Interest”

    A two part series of lectures are scheduled to be delivered by Arif Hasan on “Urbanization, Politics, Public & National Interest”. The part one of this series is being held tomorrow at Shirkat Gah, Karachi. The invitation is as follows To undo damage, one has to know what caused it to find solutions. We have…

  • SAC Lahore activists thrashed again at Punjab College

    SAC Lahore is reporting that a few of its activists in Punjab College, Lahore were rounded up by about 10 college members and given a severe thrashing. The SAC volunteers were the same people who were served up a thrashing a day earlier as well, Defying the oppression he showed up once again at the…

  • SAC Lahore activsts beaten up & manhandled

    Reported via the Emergency Times blog In two separate incidents of brutality, typical of the oppressive nature of the regime and its partisan brute components, a member and an advisers of the Students Action Committee were harassed and beaten up. Outside the Punjab University New Campus mosque, students Rafi ullah Awan, Yasir Abdul Haleem, M…