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Tag: Islamabad

  • Aitzaz Ahsan Beaten & Detained – Vigils held in Karachi & Lahore

    Posted on the Emergency Times mailing list and also on the People’s Resistance Aitzaz Ahsan was picked up on the motorway enroute to Islamabad, beaten up, glasses broken and brought back to Lahore in a police bus. Is now suffering from bruises and fever.When he asked for a detention order, they shoved a gun in…

  • Eid morning Police Action in Islamabad

    Posted on the People’s Resistance network Activists, mainly lawyers, gathered at the entrance to the judges colony at 7:30 this morning. The police had completely blocked the way to the Chief Justice’s residence with concrete blocks and barbed wires. The protesters gathered at the police barrier which happened to be at the entrance to the…

  • Chief Justice, Aitezaz & other Judges to offer Eid prayers at Faisal Mosque

    Posted on the Emergency Times website The Chief Justice of Pakistan, Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, will offer Eid prayers at the Faisal Mosque, Islamabad, for which he has been granted ‘temporary’ release from his illegal imprisonment. The other Honorable Judges will accompany him as well. Fellow Pakistanis are urged to gather at 7.30am tomorrow at…

  • Musharraf continues his rant ‘Former CJ was corrupt’

    An article written by Javed Siddique in The Nation titled ‘Former CJ was corrupt‘ gives an interesting insight into how Musharraf believed that an elaborate conspiracy was being hatched to unseat him from the throne of the President of Pakistan. At first I wanted to leave the full contents of the article intact without any…

  • 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…

  • Pictures of Islamabad Protest – ‘The Day After’ the Emergency was Lifted

    Read the full report here

  • The New Face of (Controlled) Media – An Open Letter

    An open letter written by Amna Piracha on the new face of controlled media under the PEMRA axe Mr. Mujahid Barelvi CNBC Islamabad Dear Mujahid, My encounter with you the other day left me disturbed. At first I thought I would let this pass but we are living through historic times and no matter who…

  • 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…

  • Demonstration against Police and States Brutalities

    Several activists of civil society (the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Peoples Resistance, Women Action Forum, Interntaional Socialists Karachi, Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party, Labour Party of Pakistan, Roots Foundation and others) gathered outside Karachi Press Club today with placards and banners and staged a demonstration against the large scale arrest, severe lathi charge, tear gas…

  • 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…

  • Karachi Press Club protest today at 3:00PM

    Posted on the people’s Resistance mailing list A joint demonstration has been organised for 03:00 p.m. tomorrow (December 18) outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC), to protest the State’s brutalities against the Students Action Committee (SAC) rally in Islamabad today. While the protest has been called by the CMKP and the Labour Party of Pakistan…

  • Islamabad Protestors Thrashed by Police – Report

    Report on yesterdays Islamabad protest posted on the Emergency mailing list I apologize for not being able to write more details or in better language. Have 2 fractured fingers and back got real bad thrashing. I am still amongst the luckier ones. We still don’t have details on the number but many got beaten up…

  • Student Action Committee rally in Islamabad

    Rally baton-charged and heavily tear-gassed. 40 people arrested including comrades Amna and Zehra. Trying to locate everyone now.

  • Karachi Welcomes the non-PCO Judges – Report

    A report sent into the People’s Resistance network by UZi giving a detailed and funny narration of the welcome by members of the civil society, judges, lawyers, PR activists, students, laborers and journalists on the arrival of Justice Rana Bhagwandas and Justice Ghulam Rabbani to Karachi from Islamabad Karachi gave a rousing welcome today to…

  • 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…