Tag: Lahore
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The Emergency Times: Issue # 31
The 31th edition of The Emergency Times has just been published it is an effort by a few dedicated activists from Lahore managing the PakistanMartialLaw.blogspot.com website, a round up of the news regarding the imposition of Emergency in Pakistan Download it here in PDF Format
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Reception for the arrival of Justice Bhagwandas and Justice Rabbani to Karachi
Reports are coming in that Justice Bhangwandas and Justice Rabbani are boarding a flight at 3:00pm from Lahore to insha-allah arrive at 4:45 to Karachi Airport for their first maiden voyage to this city after the upheaval of the November 3rd. People’s Resistance along with lawyers, trade unions and a number of NGO’s have planned…
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The Emergency Times: Issue # 30
The 30th edition of The Emergency Times created by the activists in Lahore running PakistanMartialLaw.blogspot.com has just been published Download it here in PDF Format
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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…
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Free and Fair elections aka Pre-poll Rigging
Take your pick Free and Fair elections or State sponsored Pre-poll rigging
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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,…
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Aitzaz Ahsan Boycotts Elections
Today the legal community is celebrating with the news that Aitzaz Ahsan has finally decided to boycott the elections, in effect culminating in a full and total boycott by the legal community in Pakistan, barring those lap-dogs hungry for power. Aitzaz Ahsan had initially written in a letter to the Bar Council outlining his strategy…
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Charges dropped against GOR detainees & LUMS faculty
The government this morning withdrew the case against the `GOR 12 as well as the case against the LUMS faculty & students after the `general’s kind visit to Lahore,’ according to a friend. “Great Musharraf’s lenient view: hound them, arrest them, keep them in jail under the Anti Terrorist Act & Maintenance of Public Order,…
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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.…
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Why Boycott is not an Option?
Guest post by Ali Malik In the outrage post emergency, I was confused about whether the opposition should boycott the elections or not? For instance, soon after emergency, when a Lahore based journalist (and one for whom I have high regard for), currently in Karachi, was emotionally advocating oppositions’ boycott of the polls, my only…
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Universal Human Rights Day marked as a Black Day in Pakistan
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), along with other civil society groups, will be observing December 10 (Universal Human Rights Day), as black day. The idea is to highlight the unprecedented human rights abuses by the government against the people and against all sections of civil society in 2007, including curbs on media and…
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PFUJ to protest on International Human Rights Day
Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), will “protest” on the International Human Rights Day, on Monday, December 10, saying continued curbs on media, ban on GEO, Royal tv and FM-99, have not only threatened the employment of over 5,000 newspapers employees but also the freedom of expression in the country and general elections without free…
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Teachers Action Committee
At a meeting of teachers on 6th December, it was unanimously decided to form a Teachers Action Committee. With representatives from various universities, colleges and schools of Lahore including PU, LGS, NCA, BNU, LACAS, FCC and GCU, the aim of TAC is to provide a forum where teachers can unite their voices against the illegal…
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Lahore Hunger Strike camp to Demand Release of Detainees
Reported on FAST Rising Blog On the call of Students Action Committee, Lahore the students from FAST, LUMS, PU and other institutes gathered at Lahore Press Club to continue their protests. To demand the release of their detained friends, the protesters organized a hunger strike camp starting Saturday Around a hundred students responded to the…
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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…