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  • List of Protests in Pakistan for 13th December

    Rawalpindi: Where: Rawalpindi Bar When: 11 am, To bring: banners and placards. Call by: LAWYERS, STUDENTS, Imran Khan and Qazi Hussain will be there in solidarity. Islamabad: Where: HOUSE NO. 10 , STREET NO 16, F-6/3 ISLAMABAD When: 3:30 pm To bring: Candles, flowers, banners and placards. Call by: LAWYERS, STUDENTS, DOCTORS, BANKERS, CIVIL SOCIETY,…

  • A Lawyers Ordeal

    (Munir A Malik narrates a chilling account of his imprisonment and near-fatal illness caused by negligence) By Beena Sarwar “It was psychological torture to the worst degree,” says Munir A Malik, former President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), talking about his three-week ordeal in prison before he was belatedly taken to hospital with renal failure.…

  • Pakistans Rich List of 2008

    Short-listing Pakistan’s most influential business magnates or Groups has never been an easy task because there are the people who have been very powerful in nearly every regime that has held this country’s reins since the last 60 years and then we have had those seasonal species that maneuvered their voice to be heard better…

  • Video: Aabpara Protest, Islamabad – 4th Dec 2007

    Other relevant links: Protest in Pictures & EyeWitness Account

  • Musharraf’s Economic Deception – Part 1

    Guest Post by Dr. Tariq Naeem General Musharraf took over the reigns of power in 1999 from Nawaz Sharif with the Pakistan economy on the verge of bankruptcy. So desperate was the situation Nawaz Sharif toured the world visiting Pakistanis with a begging bowl requesting them to invest in Pakistan due to the sanctions imposed…

  • Eyewitness account of the Protest in Islamabad

    This eyewitness account has been written by an activist from Islamabad going under the pseudonym of Caped Avenger his report was initially published at The Emergency Times while pictures of this Aabpara protest can be seen here. On the call of the Student Action Committee (Islamabad Chapter) over a 1000 protesters gathered at Aabpara Chowk…

  • Protest in Pictures : Aabpara, Islamabad – 4th Dec

    Kudos to Funkor’s Flickr Stream

  • SMS Update @ 1822: Islamabad student’s protest

    The protest is over. It was uber-successful. Heads and arms are swollen, courtesy the dandas, and voices are hoarse, courtesy the naareybaazi, but our spirits are high. Arrests have been made, but the bottomline is that we defeated the State today. “Tulaba kia maangey — AZADI!!!” SMS Blogger from Islamabad

  • SMS Update @ 1618: Student protest in Islamabad

    We were brutally lathi-charged [Baton Charged]. Got hit thrice on my head and then on my arms and hands when I tried to protect my head. Women were punched. Head hurts but we didn’t give in. They were forced to let us move forward. We’re outside the Islamabad Press Club now. SMS Blogger from Islamabad

  • SMS Update @ 1537: Student Action Committee protest in Islamabad

    100-something people and growing. Stand off with police who’re not allowing us to march to the press club. Negotiations are on, SMS Blogger from Islamabad

  • Update @ 1343: LUMS Besieged, Important information for Islamabad

    The Emergency Moderator mailing list has yet another update Lahore: LUMS student representatives communicated with a senior police official who informed them that any student who has been active in protests lately will be arrested. The student, whose identity can not be revealed for safety reasons, was shown pictures of students the police will arrest…

  • Update @ 1138: LUMS besiged by Police

    The first update from The Emergency Times on the LUMS standoff LUMS is currently surrounded by police personnel who have set up barricades near the front entrance. Inspection of all traffic going in and out of the University is underway. The professed motive is to prevent students from attending today’s student rally at the Press…

  • PML-N to reverse boycott decision soon

    There are reports coming in from a number of news agencies that PML-N will very soon reverse their decision to boycott and succumb to the demands of their party stalwarts and contest the election. I truly feel that contesting the elections will only provide Musharraf with even more legitimacy to continue his reign on this…

  • Ms. Bhutto, A free Judiciary But Detained Judges – An Open Letter by Ghazala Minallah

    An open letter written by Ghazala Minallah d/o Late Justice Safdar Shah to Benazir Bhutto Dear Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, I was absolutely shocked and amazed at your latest statement regarding the judiciary. How could you, of all people, say that you believed in an independent judiciary BUT that personalities did not matter? If personalities did…

  • Students Action Committee Protest in Islamabad

    An eyewitness account of the protests organized by Students Action Committee in Islamabad published by The Neem Revolution at The Emergency Times The Protest Rally in Islamabad on Friday turned out to be a huge success, with around 300 people showing up to express their outrage at the continued subversion of the judiciary and media,…