Month: February 2008
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‘Bolta Pakistan’ censored in certain areas of Pakistan
“Bolta Pakistan” an AAJ.tv show featuring Mushtaq Minhas and Nusrat Javed came ‘on air’ today and barely five minutes later certain parts of the country namely Islamabad and Karachi were taken off the air. A viewer reported that the comparers had started discussing the negotiations taking place between the PPP hierarchy and the US diplomatic…
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Judicial Bus to Leave Karachi on Saturday
Sind High Court Bar Association has extended invitation to civil society, to join them in the first “judicial bus” leaving from Karachi to Hyderabad and back. The rally, accompanied by November 2 judges of Sind High Court will leave Sind High Court Karachi at 9 am, Saturday, February 23, 2008 for Hyderabad. On reaching Hyderabad,…
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Vote Rigging Videos in Karachi – could this be why YouTube is blocked?
A few videos appeared yesterday barely a few days following the elections showing some polling officers setting up the voting process. I have personally not seen them but am told that they show some serious election manipulations of the four videos that were online two have been deleted but two specific videos still remain available.…
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Youtube blocked in Pakistan
Just in – Youtube seems to have been blocked in Pakistan There are two theories one is that an Anti Islamic movie was being blocked while another theory is that a few videos did surface which showed poll rigging in Karachi Sources say that this video could very well be the objectionable video that is…
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Nawaz Sharif enters Judicial Colony in Islamabad
It is being reported by.the SAC team in Lahore that Nawaz Sharif has come to he judicial colony in Islamabad along with his brother and has just now entered inside the enclave there are hundreds of supporers along with him and the civil society
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9 lawyers arrested in Karachi
Clashes between lawyers & police at city court and M.A. Jinnah Road. 9 arrested, including KBA Secretary. 3 lawyers seriously injured, taken to Civil Hospital.
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Lawyers fired upon in Karachi
News just received. Lawyers are being fired upon by people in civilian clothes and police is also being very aggressive. A lady lawyer has recived gunshot tear gas canister wound.
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Lawyers rally tear gassed in Karachi
Breaking News : Lawyers protesting at the City Courts Karachi are being beaten, tear gassed and several have been arrested More updates can be posted as comments here
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Aitzaz Ahsan Finally Released
Breaking News: Aitzaz Ahsan has just been allowed to exit his house arrest confinement and is at the moment addressing journalists outside his house. He has resolved to continue his struggle for the restoration of the Judiciary and has planned for a grand rally on March 9th the day one year ago the CJP Iftikhar…
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RUMOR MILL: Zardari and Musharraf (rep) inside US Embassy
It is being reported (1500 PST Geo News) that a high level meeting is underway inside the US Embassy with Asif Ali Zardari and representatives of Pervaiz Musharraf. The meeting is supposed to be with the US Ambassador and his staff trying to negotiate a peace / alliance between PML-Q and PPP. The report has…
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Sheikh Rashid flees the country
Sheikh Rashid was the first one to flee Pakistan after being humiliated in these elections. He lost both his seats, one by a margin of about 46,000 and the other by a margin of 62,000 votes. In the last elections he was elected from both these seats. Public love for him can be seen in…
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Government thinking of releasing CJP
Breaking News on Geo tv saying that the: Government is actually thinking of ending C.J Iftikhar Chaudhry’s house arrest This is an important development worth keeping an eye on as Nawaz Sharif has taken oath from all its candidates that they will work towards the restoration of the Nov 3 judiciary
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BBC Radio Five Interview: Pods & Blogs
Sabeen Mahmood and I were interviewed late last night (election night) by BBC Radio 5 it can be heard here while the show notes can be read on the BBC Radio 5 website (we are in the first 10 minutes of the show) [audio:pods_20080219-0343.mp3]
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Pakistan Elections: Free, Fair and Transparent
Guest Blog by temporal who blogs at Baithak The Pakistan elections are over and the people have spoken. But have they been heard? It is after midnight Pakistan time and the results are trickling in. It appears from early results that PML (Q) the king’s party has received a massive defeat. And both opposition parties,…
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Election Roundup (0630 PST)
The rigging observed today by many observers was not enough to hamper the voice of the people. While there is plenty of documented evidence of rigging by parties notably the Q-League and MQM this was not sufficient to save them from a crushing defeat at the hands of PML-N and PPP. Details of the rigging…