Tag: Lahore
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SMS Update @ 1530: SAC Member offered bribe
SAC Lahore member Asif Mulick reports that supporters of Abdul Aleem offered him a Rs 2000 in cash to vote at Queen Mary polling station.
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SAC Hold Mock Elections in Lahore
Members of the Student Action Committee had planned to hold mock elections in front of the Lahore High Court, reaching there early morning the police prevented them to setup camp but they instead continued the mock elections at another location. The turnout was massive with over 812 voters. Votes Against Musharraf = 782 Votes For…
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Election begins with rigging, violence and trouble
Not coming as much of a surprise, election starts off rather unpleasantly. Two friends who registered to vote in Islamabad went early to the polling station to find out that their names were missing from the designated polling station. Last night PML-N candidate Ch Asif Ashraf was assassinated in Lahore. In addition an MQM candidate…
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Attorney General Qayyum Aware of Massive Election-Rigging Plans as early as Nov
In an audio recording obtained by Human Rights Watch, Pakistans Attorney General [Mr. upsnoot] Malik Qayyum stated that upcoming parliamentary elections will be “massively rigged, Human Rights Watch said that the recording was made during a phone interview with a member of the media on November 21, 2007. Qayyum, while still on the phone interview,…
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Festival of the Oppressed
Guest post by Umer Chaudhry Cross Posted from Red Diary February 9th, 2008, was an important day for the lawyers movement and for the people of Pakistan. It was that day when the lawyers showed their resilience in the face of State repression on the streets of Islamabad. It was that day when the lawyers…
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It’s just a rock! It’s just a bruise
By Sundas Sundas is a student of LUMS who is an active member of the Student Action Committee, Lahore and this write up is her narration of the events that took place in Islamabad last Saturday when over 1500 strong force of unarmed citizens braved the water cannons and tear gas to try and reach…
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They took Oath under the PCO before – Why Should we Support them Now
Article written by members of the People’s Resistance Originally written on Dec 26 2007, The PCO Chief Justice of Lahore High Court, Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry, has since retired A Bit of History Pakistans history is chequered with instances of military taking over the state. When Ayub took over, he introduced a constitution (1962) that gave…
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PR Call for protest in Karachi in solidarity with activists in Islamabad
Email received on the People’s Resistance network I’m sure you are all aware of the cowardly and brutal measures taken by the police in Islamabad to stop the lawyers and activists for reaching the home of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. If lathi charge and arrests weren’t enough, this time the state used water canons…
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Transcript of Dr. Kaiser Bengali’s Lecture – Making sense of Pakistan and its Economy
Attached is the entire transcript of the lecture given by Dr. Kasier Bengali in Dec at the invitation of People’s Resistance & The Green Economics & Globalisation Initiative where he talked on Making sense of Pakistan and its Economy at Shirkat Gah Office, Karachi Alternatively Download the [download#2] Let me begin by thanking Shirkat Gah…
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Update @ 2010: Initial reports from the Hum Logge Solidarity Rally in Islamabad
Sketchy details coming in from Islamabad: If anyone wishes to show solidarity with those injured and affected by the police attack can reach Aitzaz Ahsan’s residence in Islamabad. The rally was stopped by a very large posse of police (over 1000). Barbed wire was laid out on way leading to Aitzaz’s residence. As the group…
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People’s Resistance Activists Inteviewed in GT (Good Times) magazine
The latest publication of GoodTimes has around 36-pages of pictures and interviews with various civil society activists from Karachi and Lahore predominantly from the Karachi based People’s Resistance network. For the sake of posterity I have scanned the relevant pages (in low quality) and is now available for download, but to really enjoy the entire…
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AAJ TV Blackballed again because of Live with Talat
A day back around 11:30 at night on Feb 6th AAJ TV was suddenly taken off the air in the regions of Rawalpindi and Islamabad and according to AAJ it was blocked up to Chakwal 60 km away. Live with Talat was due to air a discussion with Nusrat Javeed while some sources say that…
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Zero Fervor for Elections
By Farooq Tariq spokesperson for the Labour Party Pakistan Thirteen days to go and yet there is no election excitement. There are no street corner meetings or large-scale public rallies. The main leadership of those parties participating in the elections plan no national tours. It could be the most colorless election in the history of…
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Humor: Jat in London
Hit and run by Shakir Husain Published in The News Pakistan is lucky enough to have a visionary leader in the form of`Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain whose family has sacrificed so much for the people of Pakistan. So when this great leader’s younger brother Wajahat Hussain and three nephews were detained under the anti-terrorist law at…
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Ali Ahmad Kurd re-detained for 30 days
Pakistani authorities have yet again detained Ali Ahmed Kurd only after releasing the lawyer jsut a few days ago. Ali Ahmad Kurd was first held in November when President Musharraf imposed emergency rule. He was released last week but has now been detained again. “Mr Kurd was trying to leave Quetta. He has been served…