PML-Q
SMS Update @ 1545: PML-Q ransack ten polling agents
SAC member Ahmed Iqbal reports from Narowal that PML-Q leagues armed gang members ransack ten poling stations, staff being harassed and PML-N agents thrown out
SMS Update @ 1530: SAC Member offered bribe
SAC Lahore member Asif Mulick reports that supporters of Abdul Aleem offered him a Rs 2000 in cash to vote at Queen Mary polling station.
Talking in percentages, the latest IRI survey
Guest Blog by Zovc
The latest IRI survey released on 11th of February indicates once again that Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will clean sweep the February 18th elections. These elections are thought to be one of the most critical in Pakistani history not just because they will decide the fate of Pakistan for the next five-years [...]
Dichotomy in Electioneering: A Pakistani Perspective
Guest blog by temporal who blogs at Baithak
The blurb informs us that Mariam Mufti is currently working on her doctoral dissertation on the party system of Pakistan at Johns Hopkins University. In the News today she offers these views and definitions:
To resolve the debate on whether or not strong political parties are essential for democracy, [...]
Humor: Jat in London
Hit and run by Shakir Husain
Published in The News
Pakistan is lucky enough to have a visionary leader in the form of`Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain whose family has sacrificed so much for the people of Pakistan. So when this great leader’s younger brother Wajahat Hussain and three nephews were detained under the anti-terrorist law at Gatwick Airport [...]
With extreme prejudice?
A volunteer from the Student Action Committee writes on the SAC Lahore incident based on narratives by the SAC Lahore activist who were roughed up in Punjab College
On two consecutive days, 1st and 2nd February, the staff (security personnel as well as faculty members) of Punjab College, Muslim Town have tried to deny the rights [...]
SAC Lahore, exposes Punjab College & Caretaker Minister for Special Education
SAC Lahore held a press conference today at 1:00pm against the Punjab College and its administration for attacking their activists yesterday
The Students Action Committee (Lahore) held a short but vehement protest against the brutal assault by Punjab College’s establishment on four SAC representatives and a bystander driver.
Held outside the Press club today at 1 pm, [...]
Report From Lahore: SAC Members brutally attacked at Punjab College
A detailed report of the incident that occurred today at Punjab College which involved the roughing up of activists of Student Action Committee. Published in the Emergency Times Blog - [llink]
Today, the true nature of the establishment was unleashed in full colours. As a sequel to yesterday’s assault against a PU teacher and an [...]
SAC Lahore activists thrashed again at Punjab College
SAC Lahore is reporting that a few of its activists in Punjab College, Lahore were rounded up by about 10 college members and given a severe thrashing. The SAC volunteers were the same people who were served up a thrashing a day earlier as well, Defying the oppression he showed up once again at [...]
Downing Street Protest - Pictures
Pictures of the Anti-Musharraf protest on Downing Street, London - Credit PkPolitics & BBC Urdu Pictures
High Profile Deportation of Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain
Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain, elder brother of PML (Q) President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, was deported by British authorities when he arrived at Heathrow Airport from Spain. Wajahat had gone to London to lead a pro-Musharraf rally in London basically to counter the anti-Musharraf protests planned for his visit a few days later
The prominent PML-Q leaders were [...]
Postal workers in Lahore buying Votes for Rs 1,500 ($25) only ?
Exposing election rigging is a tough job. as the onus of proof generally lies on the accuser, hence usually very tough to prove, at times opposing parties may even try to set each other up simply to humiliate them and pull a few extra votes in the process, everything seems to be fair in our [...]
Latest update on arrests in Dadu and Naushero Feroz, Sindh
A few activists of the People’s Resistance are actively working in the interior sindh for standing up against this wave of arrests taking place today’s update is as follows
Dadu: 235 FIRs registered and 50,400 people booked.
400 PPP workers nominated including both candidates for National Assembly Rafiq Jamali & Dr Talat Mahesar
All candidates for PS Pir [...]
About 200,000 people Arrested in Sindh
There are reports which are coming in for the past few days that a major crackdown is underway in Sindh specially targeting the workers of Pakistan People Party to an extent that there are official reports of around 0.2 million people that have been arrested for their involvement and activities in the rioting following the [...]
HRCP Statement “Civil society for change at the top, fairplay and citizens rights”
Just received this press statement from Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on discussion about the present political situation in Pakistan and condemned the wide spread arrests being made of all opposition leaders
HRCP Pakistan: Activists of civil society organizations and concerned citizens, including representatives of the four provinces, met at HRCP office in Lahore to [...]
