Tag: Election
-
Final Testimony to the US House Committee on Pakistani elections
Testimony by Mark L. Schneider, Senior Vice President, International Crisis Group to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on “Pakistani elections: Will they be fair and free or fundamentally flawed? 20 December 2007 Washington, DC I want to express once again the appreciation of the International Crisis Group for the continuing attention of…
-
Pakistans Tyranny Continues – NY Times Op-Ed by Aitzaz Ahsan
An Op-Ed article written by Aitzaz Ahsan which appeared on the Sunday morning New York Times website can be read here The chief justice of Pakistans Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, and his family have been detained in their house, barricaded in with barbed wire and surrounded by police officers in riot gear since Nov.…
-
Weakening Pakistan – NYTimes Editorial
An editorial published on the New York Times website about Pakistan – [link] Pakistans president, Pervez Musharraf, insists his outrageous power grabs are aimed at stabilizing and protecting his country. His authoritarian maneuvers only weaken the countrys already feeble political institutions and fuel more political turmoil. Turmoil is not what anyone needs in a country…
-
12 Human Rights NGO’s write to Condoleezza Rice
Twelve Human Rights Organizations write a detailed letter to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the grave situation in Pakistan. The 12 NGO’s signing the letter are Amnesty International USA, The Carter Center, Freedom House, Global Rights, Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch, International Justice Mission, International League for Human Rights, Jacob Blaustein Institute…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
….the [word] Emergency has been LIFTED
Dawn News reports that the President General (retired) Pervaiz Musharraf has lifted the state of emergency today only weeks before the January 8th elections, with a nurtured Judiciary, a limping media and a lap dog called ‘Democracy’ – “Yes, the emergency has been lifted, said a government official who declined to be identified !!!! [whats…
-
Hina Jilani tells America – Elections Pre-Rigged, No Monitoring Needed
AFP Reports on the statements made by Hina Jilani, the special representative of the UN secretary general on human rights defenders – OTHER RELATED REPORTS – BBC, International Herald Tribune & School of Law at University of Pittsburgh A UN human rights envoy on Thursday told US lawmakers not to send any delegation to monitor…
-
People’s Resistance Regal Chowk Rally
Today’s People’s Resistance Regal Chowk rally was a great success with over 500+ participants. During the rally I was able to capture some great images and here I have chosen to publish all the 150+ images while a shorter selection of 40 odd images can be viewed on my Google Web album which might be…
-
The NAB Diaries – Part One
Guest Post by Amer Nazir Part Two of the ‘The NAB Diaries’ can be read here Part Three of the ‘The NAB Diaries’ can be read here My name is Amer Nazir. I live in exile in London. It is a forced exile. I left Pakistan as soon as NAB took my name off the…
-
Free and Fair elections aka Pre-poll Rigging
Take your pick Free and Fair elections or State sponsored Pre-poll rigging
-
CNBC Warned for ‘Objectionable Programing’
It is being reported that CNBC Pakistan, a local business channel broadcasting business news in Urdu has just recently been issued a warning from the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on Wednesday over violation of the code of conduct and the PEMRA Ordinance by airing objectionable programme. Under the PEMRA Ordinance, no programme would…