Tag: Karachi
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Update @ 1655: Flash peace rally in Karachi today
About 20 brave women protested at Schon Circle in Karachi today, despite police presence.
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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 @ 0320: People’s Resistence issues a Statement to Support Judiciary
A group of concerned citizens from the People’s Resistance (umbrella group formed to resist the ’emergency’) have been meeting the non-PCO judges over the last few days to extend solidarity and appreciate their stand. Below please see a summary of the key points that emerged from these meetings Civil society coalition, People’s Resistance, is appalled…
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Update @ 2013: Police raids, more arrests and websites blocked
Via an IPS journalist and one of our SMS reporters on the ground: – The central leader of the Communist Party of Pakistan — Jam Saqi, was away while police raided his house in Hyderababad – A heavy police contingent is visible outside the Karachi Press Club while PPP activists Saeed Boota, Anis Fatima and…
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Update @ 1957: PPP leaders arrested
Via SMS: 200 PPP workers and leaders arrested in Karachi, including Qaim Ali Shah, Raza Rabbani & Yusuf Talpur. Police are reported to begun baton charging.
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Update @ 0049: Support for non-PCO judges under pressure
Via e-mail from Beena on supporting those judges who have not taken oath under the new PCO and are being pressurized by the current regime to do so: Justice (r.) Wajihuddin told some visitors at his Karachi residence on Sunday that the judges are under tremendous pressure to take oath. One of the Sindh High…
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Update @ 2021: Candlelight vigil in Karachi
Blogged via SMS: 20 people attended the candlelight vigil at 7pm tonight, people were asking for reinstatement of judges and lifting of emergency rule.
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Update @ 2030: Peace Rally outside MacDonald’s in Karachi today
The following came into us via e-mail from a representative with the Peoples’ Resistance which is a coalition of various organizations, left-wing political parties, NGOs and human rights organizations, labor and trade-union federations, academics, students, and citizens, demonstrated today (Friday) evening outside MacDonald’s at Sea View in Clifton in a flash peace rally: The public…
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Update @ 0040: On detentions and releases in Lahore & Karachi
The following update on those who had been detained and arrested previously and who have now been released or otherwise, comes via e-mail from a blogger on the ground (Be) in Pakistan: Lahore: 1) 155 out of the 865 advocates arrested in Lahore on Monday have been sent for a three-day remand in the judicial…
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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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Does Musharraf face risk of a coup?
Early today morning there were strong rumors throughout he country that the junior squadron of Army leadership had turned onto Musharraf and had him under house arrest, the rumor fizzled out to be smoke and Musharraf went on record to state that this was ‘a joke of the highest degree’ An interesting article by BBC…
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Update @ 2122: Images from Press Club protest in Karachi
The following images were taken by Dr. Awab, streamed in via Flickr, show protesters and the police presence that turned up for the demonstration at the Press Club in Karachi today where a journalist was assaulted by police and five protesters arrested for chanting slogans. More pictures of the protest have been clicked by another…
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Update @ 1640: Protesters arrested at Karachi Press Club
Via Blackberry from Dr. Awab who is at the protest in Karachi: “I’m at the protest taking pictures but not going through on email, one journalist severely beaten and about 5 arrested”
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Update @ 1555: Tips for protesters marching towards Karachi Press Club
Bloggers who are participating in the protest at the Press Club in Karach which started about a half hour ago, have sent in messages stating the visibibility of a heavy police (Nafri) prescence posted around the Karachi Press Club (KPC), and the numbers are continuing to increase. The roads around the KPC have been cordoned…
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Update @ 1445: Asma Jahangir e-mails her detention order
The following e-mail came in via Omer from Asma Jahangir who is the Secretary General of HRCP (Human Rights Commission Pakistan): The situation in the country is uncertain. There is a strong crackdown on the press and lawyers. Majority of the judges of the Supreme Court and four High Courts have not taken oath. The…