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Tag: Long March

  • The Lahore Rebellion: Email update from Labor Party Pakistan

    The fight is going on. Police is sometime retreating and coming back to use tear gas. The protesters are also determined to express their right to get together. Police is firing directly at the demonstrators. One casualty the Shahid siddique, the newly elected president of Lahore High Bar Association. Thousands of rounds of tear gas…

  • 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…

  • PM Gilani can become a hero from zero

    Guest Blog by NRehman Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has a chance of a life time to become a long awaited hero for the Pakistani nation. If the PM stands firm against Presedent Zardari and ask the Parliament to vote for the restoration of the judiciary, he will get an enormous applause from the…

  • What should the army do?

    Guest Post by Aqil Sajjad There are some rumours that the PPP is planning to use the army to curb the long march. One hopes these stories turn out to be false, because if the military were to side with the government against the lawyers, it would be pitting itself against the people of Pakistan.…

  • 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…

  • Long March Anthem

  • 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…

  • Declaration by the National Conference for the restoration of Independent Judiciary

    Declaration adopted at the National Conference for the restoration of independent judiciary held at Islamabad on 4th March, 2009 This National Conference having deliberated upon the need for the restoration of the independent judiciary in the country and for that purpose it was necessary to undertake a peaceful and non-violent Long March to Islamabad and…

  • POLL: Who would you blame for the Lahore Attacks

    With so many conspiracy theories floating about, who in your opinion is to blame for the Lahore attack on the Sri Lankan players today [poll id=”5″]