If a Bhutto must run Pakistan, why not Fatima? - Jemima Khan
This article appeared in the Telegraph today where Jemima Khan discusses Fatima Bhutto as the most logical heir to the Bhutto dynasty, I might also agree that the 25 year old has the brains and maybe the brawns to take over the reigns of such a big party, but will she? is still an open [...]
Family Rivalries Surface to tear at Benazir’s Legacy
As predicated by this scribe in a post on Jan 1st the only way ruling elite can ensure a weakened PPP is to slowly chip away and exploit the jealousies and rivalries of the Bhutto clan, this could be the start of such propaganda, I personally see three potential breakaway’s from this post-Benazir era, Mumtaz [...]
Aitzaz Ahsan still a threat to the Government
I share with you a statement sent to us by Mrs. Ahsan who shares her frustration that her husband has yet again been placed under house arrest for another month starting this New Year. My hat goes off in salute to all those judges and lawyers who made this great sacrifice for the sake [...]
Clarification by Aitzaz Ahsan on reversal of Musharraf’s Illegal Constitutional Amendments
Submitted on the People’s resistance network, a clarification by Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan for publication in the newspapers tomorrow (25th Dec 2007) which shed light on how it is only possible to reverse Musharraf’s Constitutional Amendments - which according to him are beyond the scope of a simple 2/3rd parliamentary vote
December 24, 2007.
Press Note:
This is to [...]
Pakistans Tyranny Continues - NY Times Op-Ed by Aitzaz Ahsan
An Op-Ed article written by Aitzaz Ahsan which appeared on the Sunday morning New York Times website can be read here
The chief justice of Pakistans Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, and his family have been detained in their house, barricaded in with barbed wire and surrounded by police officers in riot gear since Nov. 3. [...]
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, [...]
Karachi Press Club Eid Day Vigil for Aitzaz - Pictures
Read the report here
Credit for all the pictures Abro’s Flickr Stream
Report of KPC Vigil on Eid Day for Aitzaz Ahsan
Report of the Eid Day vigil outside Karachi Press Club to protest against the way authorities manhandled Aitizaz Ahsan after he was suddenly ‘temporarily’ released then then abruptly arrested again. Report by Urooj posted on the People’s Resistance network
The CMKP Karachi DC organised a candlelight vigil at 06:00 p.m. yesterday (December 21) outside the [...]
Woh Eid e Nazzara
Guest Blog by Sophia Ali
Fellow Pakistanis,
I am outraged like many of you by the sheer brutality of the treatment meted out to Aitzaz Ahsan, and that too on Eid! My salutations to you Aitzaz and to all the heroes of the resistance. May Allah bring our struggle to fruition!
Woh Eid e Nazzara darkar hai [...]
A Macro-Analysis of Barrister Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsans Open Letter
Guest post by Hassan Baig
Hassan analyzes the realistic implication of the open letter written by Aitzaz Ahsan to the Pakistan Bar Council on Dec 5
Barrister Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan is a leader in his own right. A populist leader even. Moreover, his read of the political spectrum and all developing eventualities is sensible and practical.
But [...]
Aitzaz Ahsan Beaten & Detained - Vigils held in Karachi & Lahore
Posted on the Emergency Times mailing list and also on the People’s Resistance
Aitzaz Ahsan was picked up on the motorway enroute to Islamabad, beaten up, glasses broken and brought back to Lahore in a police bus. Is now suffering from bruises and fever.When he asked for a detention order, they shoved a gun in his [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
