Walk in Karachi for Judiciary - 30th April
Peoples Resistance shall hold a demonstration for restoration of judiciary on Wednesday April 30, 2008, at 6 pm at Dalton Market DHA, (in front of Rahat milk shop). Participants will walk down to the Legal Chief Justice of SHC, Mr. Sabihuddin Ahmed’s house for a 30 minute protest.
PR expresses its disappointment that [...]
Authoritarian antics of the Establishment by Arusha Noorani
A truly heartfelt email sent by Arusha Noorani daughter of Kamran Noorani one of the People’s Resistance activists who was arrested outside Justice Bhagwandas’s House two days back. The last paragraph truly reflects the frustrations of practically everyone in Pakistan
My parents were part of a peaceful vigil yesterday outside deposed judge, Justice Bhagwandas’ house, [...]
Pictures of the Peaceful Vigil outside J. Bhagwandas’s House
The People’s Resistance would like to share with the world images from the ‘peaceful’ candle light vigil held outside the house of Justice Rana Bhagwandas who has been placed under house arrest since yesterday. Civil Society members showed up today to show their support and solidarity with the honorable justice during this difficult time. [...]
Report from Darakshan Police Station After the Arrests
I would like to share an email sent into the People’s Resistance network by Abira Ashfaq who managed to sneak inside the poilce station along with Moneeza to help keep an eye on the 8 civil society activsits arrested outside Rana Bhagwandas’s House
So everyone is out. The good news is that many people and [...]
Update @ 1935: Over 10 arrested outside Bhagwandas House
BREAKING NEWS: At 6:30 donzens of members of People’s Resistance & CMKP staged a peaceful candle light vigil outside the house of Rana Bhagwandas. The members were stationed near the gate of his house holding candles and all off a sudden the lights were switched off in the area and within the darkness [...]
You and the Consititution : A seminar by People’s Resistance
“CONSTITUTIONALISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: WHY THE RULE OF LAW MATTERS TO THE LIVES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE” a discussion talk with Qazi Faez Isa
Isn’t a constitution supposed to enforce our fundamental rights?
Why does it seem to be silent on violations instead?
What does the constitution have to say on communal and public property? On labour? On the [...]
Pakistans Nuclear Integrity under International threat
Dr Arif Alvi shares his genuine thoughts and concerns of how he percives the buildup of an American threat to our nuclear arsenal. The recent comments and indicators seriously show that it is not too far to imagine that very soon the US will in all likelihood may engage the United Nations (like their false [...]
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 [...]
Nawaz Sharif blows his TOUPEE when asked ‘Tough Questions’
Yesterday Business Plus host Jasmeen Manzoor - The Pulse was invited for a one on one interview with Nawaz Sharif, at his home in Raiwind, Lahore. For starters the interview appeared to be going fine until Jasmeen touched on a few sensitive issues with Nawaz Sharif, more specifically his controversial 10 year deal with [...]
The Flag’s Complaint : a Poetic Pledge!
Guest Post by Syed Ali Abbas Zaidi
In this poem, the flag of Pakistan summons the common Pakistani citizen and expresses its grief on the countrywide mourning of Benazir Bhutto Shaheed, moreover it levels some complaints and reminiscences old times!
17 crore people asleep and someone cried
wake up from apathy, Bhutto died!
Sea of tears, a nation [...]
What choices do we have?
Guest Blog by Naeem Sadiq
posted on the People’s Resistance Network
One hopes that we have finally realised on a day as sad as this one, that the violence of the state and of fundamentalists can only take us to darker destinations. Never before have I witnessed such intense pain and sorrow, [...]
Hunger Strike for the Restoration of Judiciary
Members of the People’s Resistance staged a token hunger strike today at the Karachi Press Club for the restoration of Judiciary in Pakistan - Full Press Release Below
People’s Resistance Outreach Program - Street Theater at SeaView
A few members of People’s Resistance organized a Street Theater on the Beach at SeaView for the general public. The short street play titled JADUGAR was conceived by Husna and Ambereen of People’s Resistance, the skit was about a Jadugar (magician) who lodges himself indefinitely in the house of a poor family, promising to [...]
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 [...]
