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Tag: Judiciary

  • The Deal has been finalized, the show will go on, hero’s need to be made

    I share with you an email circulated widely by journalist Afzal Khan today – Its a worrisome analysis almost in line with my earlier post today morning – The Sharif’s are being seen to have been allowed free movement while lawyers and political leaders are being arrested country wide. This lawyers revolution is for now…

  • International Socialist inside the Lahore High Court

    Just talked to Riaz and other International Socialists comrades. They are inside Lahore High Court. with Samina Noman, Noman Qadir, Salahuddin, Salam (LPP). They said that the atmosphere is absolutely electric. Police have fired tear gas shells INSIDE the Lahore High Court as well. And every now and then lawyers and political workers go outside…

  • Country nears a Long March frenzy, but a deal brews underneath

    I write this blog post early Sunday morning at around 5am, so my thoughts might not be all that coherent, but I feel some pressing points need to be shared before the Lahore stand off takes off in barely five hours from now at 10am on March 15th Shahbaz Sharif had a very urgent meeting…

  • To March or not to March, other ways to make your voice heard

    By Zermeen Amira This post is inspired by the likes of Muhammad Ali Jinnah who never broke the law and never went to prison while engaging in independence movement and the struggle for Pakistan. The post is also inspired by our tradition that says that if you see a wrong, the least thing one could…

  • Labour Party Pakistan activists arrested and beaten up

    Post by Farooq Tariq Police in Karachi arrested today on 12 March three activists of Labour Party. Dozens of lawyers and other political activists were also arrested. They were part of the long march which started today this morning from Karachi after police failed to stop it. The march was stopped outside Karachi at Toll…

  • Defiance in Karachi

    Posted on the Peoples Resistance Mailing List Today when I reached Sindh High Court Bar in the morning, I that the Police were hurdling protestors of JI and Qadir Magsi’s STP in Police vans. Still many defiant activists of JI and STP kept on pestering the police, who used to charge towards them after every…

  • Long March LIVE updates

    This combined effort to monitor all UPDATES regarding the Long March The event has now been closed – you may replay the events here and they will Inshallah remain a documented in history to have been the day when the People in Pakistan stood up for what they believed in Long March Updates Click Here…

  • Section 144 imposed in Lahore – arrests underway

    In preparation of the Long March section 144 was imposed in Lahore on Tuesday for three days effective from Wednesday. Late tonight high level meetings were underway in preparation for conducting arrests of top leaders by the Government of Pakistan to prevent the lawyers and political parties from participating in the Long March – more…

  • Method of Appointing Judges

    Extracted from an email sent by the Emergency Moderator to the Emergency Mailing List on 8th March 2009 As stated a few days back, we are circulating a proposal on the method of appointing judges that is somewhat more detailed than the one given in the charter of democracy. In the mean time, the PPP…

  • Back to Square One

    Credit FASTRising Blog The following was written on 28th February – before the “mobile justice” Presidential Ordinance (finally withdrawn on 3rd March) and before the attack on the Sri Lankan national cricket team – in response to the promulgation of Governor’s Rule in the Punjab and the official obstruction of the Punjab Assembly sessions by the…

  • Sharif brothers declared ineligible for Elections

    The Supreme Court after prolonged hearing of Sharif brothers’ electoral eligibility case, finally declared today that the two brothers Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif are ineligible for contesting elections which were held in February 2008. This decision will actually throw into confusion Shahbaz Sharif’s position as the Chief Minister of Punjab and consequentially create a…

  • The Lament of the Blind and the Deaf

    Guest post by Temporal from Baithak Blog The usually well informed and articulate Anjum Niaz in this column is way off base The one cardinal mistake she, and most of us make, is putting all our eggs in one basket. The controversial Chaudhry Iftikhar is not a panacea for all that ails us Pakistan does…

  • PPP Suspends Aitizaz Ahsan’s CEC membership

    The PPP’s Central Executive Committee membership of Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan has been suspended and a show cause notice, over violation of party discipline, has also been issued to him. Secretary Pakistan Peoples Party Jahangir Badar said that the members of PPP’s Central Executive Committee unanimously made this decision as Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan violated party discipline.…

  • Mukhtar Mai being pressured by Federal Minister to drop case

    Mukhtar Mai is due to appear in the Supreme Court of Pakistan tomorrow on 11th February for a hearing on her outstanding case. Since a few days reports have been emerging that she was under pressure from high level authorities to drop the case, specifically Federal Defence Production Minister Abdul Qayyum Jatoi elected from Muzaffargarh…

  • Long March 2009, Once bitten twice shy

    Guest Blog by Amjad Malik On 28 March 2008, when Chief Justice Chowdhary visited Mr. Zardari to pay condolences over the death of Be Nazir Bhuttoo, the writer wrote as following, “It’s an ill advice of half lawyer half politician leaders who sometimes are trapped in between party loyalty and the cause of independence of…