Tag: PPP

  • Update @ 1301: Sham Courts (SC) Dismiss the final Petition against Musharraf

    Today the final petition against Pervaiz Mushrraf was set aside and dismissed by the newly appointed Supreme Court (Sham Court) bench headed by Chief Justice Abdul Hamid Dogar. In a decision which was practically predicted since the bench threw out the earlier four case on a technicality the sixth case was also ceremoniously thrown out…

  • Update @ 1602: LUMS Students Movement express Poltical Autonomy

    Press Release, issued by the Student Movement at Lahore University of Management Sciences As our movement gains in strength, support, momentum and therefore, media attention, the students of the protest movement at the Lahore University of Management Sciences would like to clarify our position on a number of points. Our movement is fundamentally a non-partisan,…

  • Update @ 1900: Two Young Boys killed in Karachi unrest

    Two boys, aged 11 and 12, have been killed during unrest in a neighborhood of Karachi where supporters of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto have clashed with police since Thursday morning. Police said. “Two children have been killed in firing by unidentified men in the Lyari area,. “They’re also firing at the police. The firing…

  • Its time for street protests : Imran Khan

    Published in DAWN on November 13th By Shehar Bano Khan Looking defiant and all set to mobilise students on the streets on Wednesday (tomorrow) against Gen Musharrafs emergency rule, Pakistan Tereek-i-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan lashes out at the Washington plan of installing its dream team of moderates. Dismissing the election formula for being devised and…

  • 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…

  • Update @ 0942: National Party’s General Secretary is targeted by Pakistani Government

    Via e-mail from Umar Farooq with the People’s 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: Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, General Secretary National Party, was sent on judicial remand to Landhi District Jail on November 8, 2007. Since hen…

  • Update @ 0130: Geo News DDoS’d

    On Friday at around 2030 the Geo.tv started to received a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Serice) attack and they were able to recover from this surge of artificial traffic after two hours of down time by around 2235. Geo.tv reports that this is the second time such an attack occurred on its servers resulting in…

  • Update @ 1745: Imran Khan sends message on the battle for Pakistan

    We received the following e-mail from Imran Khan who highlights the massive crackdown on genuine opposition, police brutality being used as a tool to induce fear for those attending peace rallies, and the need to restore an independent judiciary among other valuable insights: The imposition of martial law under the garb of emergency should make…

  • Update @ 1520: Rubber bullets fired at demonstrators in Rawalpindi

    Just received the following via SMS (although cell phone voice reception has been disrupted by the jammers, the text messaging service is functional): Benazir Bhutto is trying to reach Liaquat Bagh while Pakistani security forces have fired rubber bullets at demonstrators in Rawalpindi where a peace rally is being held today by the PPP (Pakistan…

  • Update @ 1400: Benazir Bhutto comes out of her house

    Via SMS, just hours before Benazir Bhutto was set to start off her party’s peace rally, she was detained and placed under house arrest at the Zardari house in Islamabad: Despite Pakistani security forces surrounding her house, Bhutto has just stepped out of the house and police have led her to a nearby waiting car.…

  • Update @ 1240: Benazir Bhutto detained, HRCP website blocked

    I’ve just received a SMS from Doc that Benazir Bhutto has been detained at her residence in Islamabad while one of the activists on the ground in Pakistan sent in a message via Skype, stating that the HRCP (Human Rights Commission Pakistan) website has been blocked in Pakistan by the PTA (Pakistan Telecommunications Authority). For…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • ‘Phone call’ that led to Emergency

    As mentioned previously in one of my post barely a day back when discussing Benazir’s exit out of the country, I suspected that something was a foot regarding the Presidential Petition decision and it could be possible that the Supreme Court judges might revolt, well now with the martial law in full force I think…

  • Where do we go from here? – Najam Sethi

    Published in the 4th November edition of Daily Times by the editor-in-chief of Daily Times, I think he has outlined the issue quite well and its worth reading News analysis: Where do we go from here? By Najam Sethi Several points are interesting and significant about last nights political rupture. We have a state of…