PML-N
Nawaz Sharif meets Muneer Malik’s daughter in Karachi
On 24th December Nawaz Sharif made a courtesy call to the residence of Mr. Muneer Malik and a few pictures attached here meeting with Shehere Zade Malik, the daughter of Muneer Malik
Final Testimony to the US House Committee on Pakistani elections
Testimony by Mark L. Schneider, Senior Vice President, International Crisis Group to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on “Pakistani elections: Will they be fair and free or fundamentally flawed?
20 December 2007
Washington, DC
I want to express once again the appreciation of the International Crisis Group for the continuing attention of the Committee and [...]
Iftikhar, Aitzaz to sue Musharraf for Rs 2 Billion
Posted on the Proud-Pakistan mailing list, reference to a news report which appeared in The Nation on 21st December 2007
Deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Supreme Court Bar Association President Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan are suing President Pervez Musharraf to claim damages worth two billion rupees through a defamation suit.
Talking to The Nation on Thursday, [...]
Weakening Pakistan - NYTimes Editorial
An editorial published on the New York Times website about Pakistan - [link]
Pakistans president, Pervez Musharraf, insists his outrageous power grabs are aimed at stabilizing and protecting his country. His authoritarian maneuvers only weaken the countrys already feeble political institutions and fuel more political turmoil.
Turmoil is not what anyone needs in a country that is [...]
Musharraf continues his rant ‘Former CJ was corrupt’
An article written by Javed Siddique in The Nation titled ‘Former CJ was corrupt‘ gives an interesting insight into how Musharraf believed that an elaborate conspiracy was being hatched to unseat him from the throne of the President of Pakistan. At first I wanted to leave the full contents of the article intact without any [...]
Jadoogar of Jeddah [aka Sharifuddin Pirzada], Dirty Business all Over Again
The New York Times just recently published an article titled ‘On Retainer in Pakistan, to Ease Military Rulers Path’ which looks into depth at the involvement of Mr. Sharifuddin Pirzada in helping General (retired) Prevaiz Musharraf in blatantly uprooting the constitution and enforcing a state of Emergency on November 3rd. This aged lawyer at [...]
Questions for Musharraf and Bush - By Aitzaz Ahsan
Article published in The Washington Post
By John F. Tierney and Aitzaz Ahsan
One of us chairs a House of Representatives subcommittee tasked with oversight of U.S. foreign policy, and one of us languishes under house arrest after transfer from a Pakistani jail for the “heinous” and “seditious” crime of representing, in legal proceedings, the sacked [...]
Musharraf’s covert Propaganda Being Handled By Self-Proclaimed Master of Deception, Ahmed Quraishi
Author of “Thesis” that US is Plotting Against Musharraf May Actually be an Intelligence-Connected Propaganda Consultant; Says on His Own Website that he Creates “Immaculate DeceptionTailored to Your Senses”
By Farid Alvie
Ahmed Quraishi’s ”enlightening” articles have been doing the rounds on the net of late. One can only describe him as Pakistan’s very own Bill O’ [...]
International Public Opinion Polls - Pro-Musharraf Propaganda EXPOSED
International Public Opinion Polls (IPOP) has recently appeared onto the scene in the recent few months when they published the results of a survey conducted by this agency during the pre-Emergency period of August 15th to September 20th which showed General Pervaiz Musharraf leading the political pack with 42% while Begum Bhutto trailed at 32% [...]
Aitzaz Ahsan Boycotts Elections
Today the legal community is celebrating with the news that Aitzaz Ahsan has finally decided to boycott the elections, in effect culminating in a full and total boycott by the legal community in Pakistan, barring those lap-dogs hungry for power. Aitzaz Ahsan had initially written in a letter to the Bar Council outlining his [...]
The People - not just Civil Society - must Unite against the Common Enemies
An Interesting article posted on the Emergency Times Mailing list
By Yousuf Nazar
Open letter to BB: Why I left PPP
A lengthy but interesting letter shared on the Emergency Time Mailing List, worth reading to understand the frustrations faced by a PPP supporter
Dear Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, Assalam alaikum.
After resigning from the basic membership of the Pakistan Peoples Party on 27 Nov, 2007, I am writing this letter to you elaborating my [...]
A Lawyers Ordeal
(Munir A Malik narrates a chilling account of his imprisonment and near-fatal illness caused by negligence)
By Beena Sarwar
“It was psychological torture to the worst degree,” says Munir A Malik, former President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), talking about his three-week ordeal in prison before he was belatedly taken to hospital with renal failure. “It can [...]
Why Boycott is not an Option?
Guest post by Ali Malik
In the outrage post emergency, I was confused about whether the opposition should boycott the elections or not? For instance, soon after emergency, when a Lahore based journalist (and one for whom I have high regard for), currently in Karachi, was emotionally advocating oppositions’ boycott of the polls, my only response [...]
This, that and the other - Ardeshir Cowasjee
A very interesting article written by Ardeshir Cowasjee printed in Dawn 9th Dec
Having written a column for this week, but having no desire to be carted off to jail or to suffer any physical inconvenience not being a street fighter and, besides, not having too much time left to me I consulted my [...]
