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Tag: India

  • How to Save Pakistan By Imran Khan

    By Imran Khan Make no mistake; Pakistan faces a grave threat from the creeping chaos, a by-product of the most shameful demonstration of power politics. There are many threats confronting our society. The threat of extremism is just one which is essentially a consequence of policies that serve foreign interests at the cost of the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Update @ 1745: Imran Khan sends message on the battle for Pakistan

    We received the following e-mail from Imran Khan who highlights the massive crackdown on genuine opposition, police brutality being used as a tool to induce fear for those attending peace rallies, and the need to restore an independent judiciary among other valuable insights: The imposition of martial law under the garb of emergency should make…

  • Update @ 0944: CEO of Geo TV sends message on extent of media clampdown

    The following comes in, via a Facebook e-mail exchange, from Mir Ibrahim Rahman who is the CEO of Geo TV in Pakistan, a channel which has been blocked by the Pakistani government who has also begun talks with foreign governments to have the channel’s transmission blocked overseas. In his message, Mir, states that he is…

  • Update @ 0912: SAFMA call on Pakistan Government to release media personalities

    The following statement from the SAFMA (South Asian Free Media Association) was forwarded in to us by the AHRC (Asian Human Rights Commission), calling on the Government of Pakistan to release all detained journalists and media personnel, including the SAFMA founding Secretary General — Imtiaz Alam: The South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) is shocked…

  • Update @ 1600: Chairperson of Pak Human Rights Commission – under house arrest

    A few minutes ago, Al Jazeera TV broadcasted a roundup of happenings in the blogosphere which have been picked up via Global Voices, including reactions by Pakistani bloggers while airing Dr. Awab’s warning to bloggers in Pakistan urging them to play it safe while blogging considering that martial law is in effect. In a telephone…

  • Statement by Article 19 on Burma

    For the past few days I have been out of contact since I am on a traveling spree going to Siem Ream, Cambodia and now taking some time off in Kuala Lampur for a few days before heading back to Karachi. The Siem Ream meeting was the 8th Informal Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Seminar on Human…

  • Assault on a Lawyer (Naeem Bukhari)

    I share with you this letter written by Naeem Bukhari brought to my attention courtesy of an avid reader of this blog, Dr. Moeed Pirzada. I quote his message which I feel is self explanatory I am posting here a recent article from Naeem Bokhari, after his thrashing by a group of lawyers inside the…

  • Busharraf meets Bhutto

    Its interesting to see how circumstances change one persons destiny, a few months back Musharraf could has easily sat on top of his throne snap his fingers and practically anyone in the country would rock to his attention, including the tranche of self exiled leaders Benazir and Nawaz. Its now a question of, who has…

  • Plot to Bring Back Benazir

    After recovering from the celebrations across the country where majority of Pakistanis celebrated the reinstatement of Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry as the Chief Justice of Pakistan. Its time to look towards the future of Pakistan, one thing we all hope should transpire from this landmark decision is the courage for other legal departments to stand…

  • The 15 Jail Days under Musharaf military dictatorship

    By: Farooq Tariq (I received this article written by Farooq Tariq, a leader of Labor Party Pakistan, its important to share this first-hand narration of the events which took place while he was detained by Musharrafs dictatorship in an attempt to control the rising voice of descent slowly developing against him in Pakistan) It was…

  • Kick the Killer out of UK Petition

    A group of Pakistanis have started this online petition to convince the British Prime Minister that enough people care that this Karachi Killer should be sent out of the UK. We all know that Imran Khan is there in the UK discussing with lawyers about preparing the case to file in the UK courts, rumors…

  • I Support, Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa

    The Government of Pakistan (read Pakistan Army) has been trying its best to suppress the release of the book titled Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy which was written by Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa. Since Friday, the proposed release date the military has pulled all stops to prevent the release of this all-exposing book going to…

  • Q & A with Salman Ahmad

    Here is a Question and Answer response by Salman Ahmad in light of his recent email where he shared his ongoing problems with the MQM reign of terror Q1: You recently stated in the press that MQM leader Altaf Hussain has threatened you on a number of occasions. Have you ever taken a legal action…