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Month: March 2008

  • PPP names Yousuf Raza Gilani as interim PM

    The Pakistan Peoples Party Saturday named ex-parliamentary speaker Yousuf Raza Gilani as its candidate to be the country’s new prime minister. “I have great pleasure in calling upon Yousuf Raza Gilani in the name of Shaheed (martyr) Benazir Bhutto to accept the heavy responsibility to lead the coalition government and the nation”,” said a statement…

  • Seminar: Do Countries sell their own people?

    A seminar is being held in Lahore on Human Rights titled, Do countries sell their own people? Civil liberties in the age of the War on Terror. Time: 3:00 PM Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 Venue: HRCP Auditorium (107 Tipu Block, Garden Town, Near Barkat Market) – Google Map or Download the JPEG Image The…

  • Silent Revolution – 2

    Guest Blog by Amjad Malik (blog) Previous Article of the series : Silent Revolution – 1 My brief visit to Pakistan in March was welcomed by suicidal blast in Lahore FIA building and farewell attack in Islamabad restaurant resulting several deaths and injuries which pose a serious question of law an order situation in Pakistan…

  • Journalists roughed up while covering the NA Speaker election

    Yesterday during the National Assembly session where the elections were underway to elect the new speaker of the house, outside it seems that the media was being roughed up for God knows what reason, under specific orders of the SP & DSP. One can only speculate as to why these media outlets were being prevented…

  • Bilawal (Zardari) Bhutto in Pakistan to announce the name of PM

    It is surprising that with all the reeling and dealing orchestrated by Asif Ali Zardari alone he now feels its important to recall his son Bilawal Zardari back to Pakistan to simply make the official announcement for the new Prime Minister. Farhatullah Babar is quoted to have said that the “The name of the prime…

  • Fehmida Mirza, elected as Speaker with 2/3 marjority

    Dr Fehmida Mirza the first woman speaker for the National Assembly in Pakistan was elected as speaker of the National Assembly by around a 2/3rd majority. Dr Mirza got 249 votes out of 319 votes cast. Her opponent Sardar Mohammad Israr Tarin polled 70 votes. Hence we can start assuming that ‘IF’ the newly elected…

  • Let the original judges return

    By Naeem Sadiq, Published in Dawn on 17th March Just imagine for a moment that an ordinary government servant, say a Lower Division Clerk of the Revenue Department appears on a local TV Channel and announces that the constitution of Pakistan is no more valid and the country would hence forth be run by a…

  • Black Flag Week Protest at Harvard University

    Cambridge, MA: Student Action Committee USA Chapter (SAC-USA) staged a successful protest in Harvard Yard today demanding immediate restoration of the pre-Nov 3 independent judiciary in Pakistan. The protestors condemned – in no uncertain terms- the unconstitutional acts of General (r) Musharraf which include the sacking of an independent judiciary, gagging of media and free…

  • US still playing ‘Dumb’ on the issue of Judiciary in Pakistan

    In a press briefing given by the US State Department on 10th March a few questions were raised on Pakistan and its ongoing judicial & political crisis. It seems that the US Government is still not willing to come clean and talk about the restoration or independence of judiciary, despite one reporters direct question talking…

  • More Fissures To Come in PPP and PPPP

    Guest Blog by Temporal who blogs at Baithak Today, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, a man of well chosen words said, “My heart is full of secrets, which, if I reveal to media they could bring storm in the national politics.” I have written on this subject earlier. This is the third blog on the subject of…

  • Black Flag Week Seminar – Adlia ki Azadi: Awam ki Azadi

    People’s Resistance in the efforts to promote the Black Flag Week cordially invite you to a seminar on “Adlia ki Azadi: Awam ki Azadi” 4:30 pm, Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at PMA House, Garden Road, Karachi The issue of justice affects all of us directly. This seminar explores why all Pakistanis should care about the…

  • March 10th: Black Flag Week Events

    Karachi Complete BOYCOTT OF ALL THE COURTS. 3:00 pm >> Flag Hoisting: Hotel Jabees, Saddar Islamic Lawyers Movement (ILM) People’s Resistance and all other friends are invited to join 5:00 pm >> Flag Hoisting: Iqbal Haider’s House D-25, Block 4, KDA 5, Clifton Just after Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s Mazar, off 26th Street Behind Designers. Lahore…

  • Black Flag Week activities in UK

    Reported by Rabia Zia On March 9 2008 in front of the High Commission of Pakistan, London, the Pakistani community in the UK responded to the call of the Supreme Court Bar Association to show solidarity with the lawyers movement in Pakistan to restore judiciary and to ask Musharraf to step down immediately with Go…

  • Pictures: Black Flag Week event at Karachi Press Club

    Credit: Sahar Shafqat

  • Black Flag Week Rally in Karachi a huge success

    Today the rally at the Karachi Press Club organized by number of organizations for the Black Flag Week was a tremendous success, estimates across the spectrum were around 10-15,000 people in attendance. It was attended by a number of political parties, NGO’s, lawyers, traders, reform groups and civil society groups of which namely the People’s…