Month: August 2008
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Buried alive at Baba Kot
Guest Post by Naeem Sadiq Baba Kot, is a remote village 80 kilometers away from Usta Mohammad city of Jafferabad district. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reports that it is here that Abdul Sattar Umrani, a brother of Sadiq Umrani, a serving PPP provincial minister, came with more than six persons and abducted five…
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BNP Senator justifies Burying Women Alive
Reported by Abdulhadi Hairan, Peshawar (Published first at Instablogs) Also reported on BBC Urdu A Pakistani Senator Israrullah Zahri from Baluchistan province Friday, August 29, 2008 tried to justify the crime of burying women alive by Umrani tribal elders. He told the Upper House, ‘It is a Baluch tribal tradition (to bury accused women alive)…
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Living with Corruption
Guest Post by Silence Corruption and governance goes together in developing countries, especially the third world where democratic process is influenced by bloodline, money politics, feudalism, intervention of imperialist powers through military and religious exploitations. The process becomes more painful when the society is trying to develop from under develop, while profiled as ‘high risk…
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Pictures of Dharna in Karachi on 28th August
Pictures of the Dharna in Karachi which was organized by the Karachi Bar Association in conjunction with various political parties and civil society activists. The Dharna started around 12pm noon on M A Jinnah Road and lasted for two hours till 2:00pm. The event was entirely peaceful and various leaders addressed the crowd. Pictures courtesy…
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Nationwide Dharnas on 28th from 12:00-2:00pm
We apologize for any inconvenience in advance. as the judicial movement has exhausted all avenues for a amicable resolution and with the numerous broken promises by Asif Zardari in regards to Restoration of Judiciary, we feel its important to peacefully send a message and have decided to hold a Dharna for a period of two…
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Dr. Aafia Siddiqui – send Postcards / Letters / Pictures & Books
Dr. Afia Siddiqui’s lawyer, Elizabeth Fink, held a press conference recently. The legal team remains very worried about Afia’s physical and psychological condition. The struggle to get her a fair trial continues. Meanwhile, the legal team suggests one small way that we can support Afia – by sending letters/postcards of support to her. Details on…
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Pakistan deserves better
Guest Blog by Amjad Malik On Defence day of Pakistan elected representatives of Pakistan will choose their next head of state who is originally a figurehead, a ceremonial position but General Musharraf armed it with deadly powers of sacking the parliament and bossing the army chief. Looking at a few clauses relevant to such election…
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Swiss Cases Dropped, Zardari $60 Million richer
Tables have turned for the better for Asif Zardari since the assassination of his wife Benazir Bhutto on 27th December, he is been literally handed the leadership of the most popular party on a silver platter, he then spins it all to his advantage and consequently his party wins the elections to make him the…
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Zardari, the mysteriously educated
In the past few days I think we here in Pakistan are trying to come to terms with being forced to swallow the mammoth pill called Mr Asif Ali Zardari. though it seems he will still continue to have his way an will definitely bulldoze himself onto the Presidential Seat but we as citizens of…
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Zardari suffering from Mental Problems
According to the Constitution of Pakistan, a person of unsound mind cannot be a member of Parliament or the President of Pakistan Zardari is now to confront this recent series of allegation where he himself used a New York based psychiatrist in 2007 to issue him a report declaring him with a range of psychiatric…
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In Memory of Ahmed Faraz
I remember his verses In his trails, words of revolution In his thoughts, words of gold Now carry we will, in our way In continuation, to find What became a dream? For the poet, for our friend A blessed soul, of our own Not borrowed, not stolen One of our own, the Faraz We will…
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More on Dr Shahid Masood
Guest Blog by RedKazim Few people know that the journalistic career of Dr Shahid Masood began at the Karachi-based, pro-MQM Quami Akhbar. In those days Dr Shahid Masood used to practice at Jinnah Hospital. He would regularly visit the office of Qaumi Akhbar situated in a street adjacent to I I Chundrigar Road and urge…
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Lawyers future strategy for the Restoration of Judiciary
DECISIONS OF THE LAWYERS’ NATIONAL CO-ORDINATION COUNCIL IN ITS EMERGENT MEETING IN ISLAMABAD AUGUST 23, 2008.
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Video – Aafiya Siddiqui and Her Son’s Interrogation
The video, obtained by Cageprisoners shows the media conference following the ‘arrest’ of a woman and a teenager identified by Afghan police as Saliha and Ali Ihsan. The US allege that this is Aafia Siddiqui and her 12 year old son, Ahmad. Aafia Siddiqui was extradited to the US on 4th August 2008 on charges…
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NRO-sponsored democratically-[un]elected President of Pakistan