Tag: Islamabad
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Update @ 0230: SC suspend convictions CJ manhandling case
The Supreme Court on Thursday admitted appeals of Islamabad’s police and administration officials convicted of manhandling deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. The new full court stopped the implementation on the convictions till further orders. Ten judges headed by the newly appointed Chief Justice under PCO Abdul Hameed Dogar took up the appeals of former senior…
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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…
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Update @ 0539: Images from Nov 10th peace rally at Downing Street in London
The following images were sent in to us by the People’s Resistance in London where over 1,000 people rallied last Saturday outside the UK Prime Minister’s residence on Downing Street to demand that Britain uses their influence in Islamabad to pressurize Musharaff to lift his martial law, hold elections, remove media curbs and release all…
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Update @ 0503: Free and Fair Election Network on Elections Under Emergency – An Oxymoron
Via e-mail from the Thematic Group Coordinator — Afreina Noor, at the FAFEN’s (Free and Fair Election Network) Secretariat in Islamabad, who sent in the text of their position paper on Elections Under Emergency – An Oxymoron. FAFEN is a coalition of thirty leading Pakistani civil society organizations and was established in 2006 to observe…
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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 @ 0018: Candle light vigil held at CJ in Islamabad
The following report comes in to us via e-mail from Wasim Baig who informs us about the happenings that took place at the candle light vigil tonight in Islamabad: There was a candle light vigil and a special show of support on the occasion of Diwali for Justice Bhagwandas tonight. CJ is a popular hangout…
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Update @ 2012: Police surround Geo News Bureau in Islamabad
Via news tickers: Geo News bureau in Islamabad have been surrounded by police in an apparent bid to shut down the transmission and editorial work. The city’s district Magistrate has given security forces an order to cordon off the Geo News offices.
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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…
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Update @ 1614: Bhutto prevented from attending rally in Rwalpindi
Bhutto tried to leave her compound in Islamabad 35 minutes ago to Rawalpindi but the police didn’t allow her to, she then made her way into her white SUV with a loudspeaker, her supporters surrounded her land cruiser and have broken through lines of police cordons. She was supposed to deliver her speech to the…
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Update @ 1400: Benazir Bhutto comes out of her house
Via SMS, just hours before Benazir Bhutto was set to start off her party’s peace rally, she was detained and placed under house arrest at the Zardari house in Islamabad: Despite Pakistani security forces surrounding her house, Bhutto has just stepped out of the house and police have led her to a nearby waiting car.…
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Update @ 1240: Benazir Bhutto detained, HRCP website blocked
I’ve just received a SMS from Doc that Benazir Bhutto has been detained at her residence in Islamabad while one of the activists on the ground in Pakistan sent in a message via Skype, stating that the HRCP (Human Rights Commission Pakistan) website has been blocked in Pakistan by the PTA (Pakistan Telecommunications Authority). For…
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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…
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Update @ 2145: PPP (political) rally in Islamabad tomorrow
An update has come in that the PPP (Pakistan People’s Party) are planning to organize a rally to be staged tomorrow (Wednesday) which starts off at 4pm in front of the Parliament House in Islamabad. Benazir Bhutto who has now landed in Islamabad appeared earlier this evening on private media channels to encourage people to…
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Update @ 1800: Phone services restored in Islamabad
Cell phone services have been restored approx. an hour ago in Islamabad with confirmed reports coming in via our comments sections as well as via text messages from friends within the city. Although the landlines and cell phone coverage is back up, reception in certain parts of Islamabad is noisy with audible background interferences. As…
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Update @ 13:45: Phones cut in Islamabad
Reports are coming in, that cell phones have been disconnected in the capital city of Islamabad in an attempt to disrupt the speech of the sacked Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to a meeting of lawyers by telephone. Its been reported that after a few minutes into the speech the line that the judge was…