Peoples Resistance
Press Release for Karachi Protest - Saturday 6:00pm
People’s Resistance
Press Release - 8th August 2008
Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s Inhuman Treatment & Illegal Detention By US Military
PROTEST > Karachi Press Club on SATURDAY, 9th August 2008 at 6:00 pm
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The Peoples Resistance along with Civil Society and Human Rights protest the inhumane treatment and illegal detention of Dr Aafia Siddiqui in Afghanistan since [...]
STRATFOR: Army ‘Not Supporting’ Musharraf
Strategic Forecasting, Inc. shares an article on Pakistan as well as a short podcast on the same subject
Stratfor Podcast on Pakistan 7th August 2008 - [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
PAKISTAN: MUSHARRAF, IMPEACHMENT AND ISLAMABAD’S TRAJECTORY
Pakistan military with flag
After some four months of disagreements over the fate of President Pervez Musharraf, the two main [...]
KARACHI: Protest to Free Afia - Karachi Press Club - Saturday @ 6:00pm
The Peoples Resistance and numerous concerned members of the Civil Society in Karachi would like to invite YOU, the people of Pakistan to join them in a peaceful protest to appeal for the release Dr. Afia Siddiqui, who was kidnapped from Karachi in 2003 and has since been detained without charge in a US Military [...]
People’s Resistance - Welcomes Judges to Karachi
The People’s Resistance (PR) welcomes Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, a symbol of constitutionalism, to the city of Karachi. We salute the Chief Justice and all those honorable judges who upheld the constitution of Pakistan by saying “NO” to the illegal Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO). Together they stood [...]
Sharifuddin Pirzada seeks Justice
Dawn newspaper published a story today about the arrest of a few NAB officials who were arrested for beating an accused ‘within the premises of the Supreme Court’ whats interesting to read in the report was the fact that
Dogar Court was actually responding to a petition filed by ‘Judicial King Pins’ like Sharifuddin Pirzada, [...]
Arrested, Released, Happy and Startled - Karachi Lawyers/Left/Civil Movement Protest
Guest Post by Riaz Ahmed of International Socialist of Pakistan
We were released around 12:05am after being arrested at 10:55pm on July 17. It was a fantastic experience. Everyone managed to force the police to spoil the Doger show. Imposed as Cheif Justice of Supreme Court on Nov 3 by General Musharraf Doger is trying to [...]
Brief Account: Sindh High Court demo and arrests
A major show of renewed vigor, strength and conviction in the lawyer and civil society movement for judiciary was demonstrated outside Sind High Court this evening. 23 lawyers and civil society members were brutalized and arrested out of over 250 while they were holding a peaceful protest on self-proclaimed Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar’s visit [...]
Pictures of Sindh High Court Arrest
Lawyers and activists of Civil Society shout slogans for restoration of deposed judges
Protestors flash victory sign after being arrested by police during a protest
Arrests outside Sindh High Court
Several lawyers and civil society activists have been arrested while protesting against PCO judge Dogar’s visit to the Sindh High Court on Thursday night.
Those arrested include Naeem Qureshi of Karachi Bar Association, K.K. Javed, Salahuddin Ahmed, Riaz Ahmed, Noor, Ayub Qureshi, Noman Qadir, Samina Noman and Anis Haroon. They area reportedly being taken to Predy [...]
Standing up for your Country
Guest Blog by Samad Khurram
Published in The News on 11th July 2008
Continuous air strikes on Pakistani territory and repeated intrusions of Pakistani airspace by US-led coalition forces in stark violation of international norms and customs have troubled Pakistanis across the country. These are very similar to US interventions in the political sphere of our country, [...]
STORY OF A SOLDIER: Samad Khurram!
Guest Post by Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi
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Reference is the news item, published in the daily news, titled “Pak student refuses to receive award from US envoy“, dated 19th June, 2008 - The News
In this world of hypocrisy, it takes guts to stand up for your beliefs. No one has the courage to challenge the mighty. [...]
Student refuses award from US Ambassador
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Samad Khurram, an active member of SAC and an undergrad at Harvard Business School refuses an award from the US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson in protest of US policies regarding the support of an illegal President Musharraf and the Mehmand Agency attack.
As the video shows that Samad Khurram is called on stage to [...]
Whatever is to become of the Movement for Justice
a letter to activists of the People’s Resistance by Dr. Awab Alvi
One issue which we all have dodged to question ourselves, is to decide what is acceptable when the powers-to-be talk about the ‘conditional’ restoration of the judiciary, either in the form of the much trumpeted 60-point constitutional package or separately.
For me, this movement (People’s [...]
Pakistan; The Ongoing “Soft Revolution” towards a “Welfare State” - Part I
Guest Post by Silence
A welfare state is a government that provides for the welfare, or the well-being, of its citizens completely. Such a government is involved in citizens’ lives at every level. It provides for physical, material, and social needs rather than the people providing for their own.
The purpose of the welfare state is to [...]
Long March and… a new generation learns to Mobilize
Burhan and Riaz Ahmed
International Socailists of Pakistan
History made an entire cross section of civil society of Pakistan learned and transformed from its own struggle against rules from above. Long march ended today at 6 am with thousands of agitators sending a strong message to those in corridor of power that they know how to mobilize [...]
