Source: Dawn
President Pervez Musharraf had an unannounced meeting in Davos with Saman Ahsan, daughter of Aitzaz Ahsan, the incarcerated leader of lawyers, to persuade her father to give up opposition to his regime, it is learnt.
“Saman was not convinced with whatever views he put across,” said Mr Ahsan’ wife Bushra Aitzaz while, confirming that the […]

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Source: The News International
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Part I
Op-Ed by Dr Tariq Hassan
Thursday, January 31, 2008
On March 9, 2007, the legal community started its struggle for the independence of judiciary. Since then, this struggle has evolved into a debate about the restoration of the deposed judges and the correlation between their restoration and democracy in […]

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Source: The News International
Several high-profile retired generals, air marshals and admirals, who have asked President Musharraf to resign, have announced to seek an unqualified apology from the Pakistani nation for imposing martial laws in the past, abrogating the Constitution several times and not letting democracy flourish in the last 60 years.
They would make this admission […]

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Source: The News International
By Ansar Abbasi
The government is all set to free and then re-arrest immediately three detained lawyers on the expiry of their 90-day detention period on Feb 1 in a move to outmanoeuvre the constitutional bar on preventive detention.
One of the top legal minds of the government confided to The News that the […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
Guest Post by Anam Jamali
Pakistan enjoys a history of judicial slavery and subordination - excuse me for the blunt and unparliamentary use of words as I understand having such opinion is an offense nowadays.
Symbolic of judicial politicization is Judge Roland Freisler, a Nazi German Judge, whose court provided protection and legal cover to […]

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Source: The News
By Rauf Klasra
LONDON: Imran Khan and Jemima Khan appeared together in public for the first time since they divorced in 2004 to lead a big protest rally of Pakistanis in front of 10 Downing Street where President Pervez Musharraf was meeting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown here on Monday.
The high profile divorced couple […]

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The brother of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Wajahat Hussain and his other family members were detained last Tuesday at Gatwick airport under the anti-terror law for serveral hours. They were on their way to UK from Spain. According to newsreports, ‘Commander Wajahat’ as he is referred to in Gujrat had left for Europe to organize pro-Mush […]

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Muzammal Hussain Ameer Talaba Jamat-ud-Dawa Allama Iqbal Medical College said with bother medical students that UHS has taken an injustice step for taking back policy of giving 5 extra marks for all undergraduate professional exams. They said more that it is right of student because this much difference can occur if the same paper have been checked […]

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Source: The News International
The retired generals, who President Musharraf described as ‘good for nothing’, have invited General (retd) Pervez Musharraf and many others to their next meeting on Thursday.
“We invite you as General (retd) Pervez Musharraf, along with your star-studded team of ex-servicemen to join us. Honour us with your presence and give us your […]

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Source: The News International
Besides the Lawyers community, the HRCP and the People’s Resistance to also take part in the protest
The lawyers community will stage a protest demonstration on Thursday to celebrate “Iftikhar Day” at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) to express solidarity with the deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
The call […]

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Source: motorsport.com
Pakistan hungry for more points in Australia
A1 Team Pakistan are eager to add to their points tally this weekend, following a successful outing in New Zealand, where Adam Khan recorded the team’s first point of the season. The team remain ‘down under’ for the sixth round of the 2007/08 championship, at the Eastern Creek […]

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Source: The News International
Op-Ed by Anjum Niaz
Hair blow dried with a hint of a mid-parting and temples conveniently left white to create that academic look, the Pakistani president took his road show to Europe. He did a minuet with Condi Rice. The setting at Davos was sufficiently strategic with a mini Pakistani flag sitting […]

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Source: The News International
Editorial
Over the past week, the pace of campaigning across the country has picked up slightly, with a daily barrage of statements and counter-statements issued by contestants and party leaders. But what is significant is that the vast majority of these comments are negative and consist of vicious, sometimes underhand, attacks on opponents. […]

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Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
“The first thing I want to do is to release all political prisoners,” she announced as our meeting on November 30, 1988 began at Dr Zafar Niazi’s house in Islamabad. In the elections held after the death of General Zia-ulHaq, the PPP, despite all efforts of the agencies, had succeeded in the […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
This writeup was posted on the People’s Resistance network, this might be more of a general report but quite literally the upcoming elections in Pakistan have all the signs to be fully rigged. Pakistan fails on each and every condition mentioned here
From Abuja to Islamabad, autocratic regimes have become adept at manipulating “free […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
Senator (R) Iqbal Haider shares his opinion on the recently announced plans for Nizam-e-Sharia. It is without doubt worrisome and important to highlight this issue for everyone and also to open it up for debate.
These days General (R) Pervez Musharaf is on a mission to convince and pacify the European Union that he […]

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Source: Herald
U.S. diplomat Keith Ryan, the son of Boston Globe sports columnist Bob Ryan, was found dead at his home in Pakistan yesterday, a day before he was due to fly back to the States.
Keith C. Ryan, 37, a father of three who was a Homeland Security attache at the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, apparently […]

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Source: Fox Soccer
Pakistan have added three new faces to their squad for Wednesday’s fourth one-day international against Zimbabwe in Faisalabad.
Opening batsman Khurram Manzoor, paceman Wahab Riaz and wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed have been called into the squad at the expense of Salman Butt, all-rounder Yasir Arafat and regular gloveman Kamran Akmal.
With the five-match series already […]

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Source: Daily Times
Western investors that have poured billions into Pakistan must be wondering: Is the country a ticking bomb or does it just have any problem.
Pakistan is not only a foreign policy imbroglio for the US, particularly, but also a potential investment agony for Americans if the tumult following Benazir Bhutto’s assassination deteriorates into a […]

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Source: Daily Times
By Hasan Ali
LAHORE: Pakistan Railways (PR) would buy 150 passenger coaches of different classes worth Rs 5.5 billion from China, sources told Daily Times on Monday.
They said that the department suffered a huge lost after the assassination of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto, as at least 100 coaches were damaged. The […]

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Source: Bloomberg
By Khalid Qayum
Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) — Pakistan’s opposition leader Nawaz Sharif won’t work with President Pervez Musharraf if his Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party wins next month’s general election, a party spokesman said.
“Musharraf has completely failed his people on all fronts,” Siddique-ul-Farooq said in a telephone interview from Sharif’s hometown, Lahore, yesterday. “Musharraf’s future will […]

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Source: Scobleizer
Yesterday morning I woke up early. Was sitting in the hotel lobby at 7 a.m. trying to check email when someone tapped me on the shoulder. It was Mark Zuckerberg, founder/CEO of Facebook, which now has 68 million active users (people who’ve signed on in the past 30 days).
He invited me to a breakfast […]

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Source: Business Standard
Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Monday signed a bilateral MoU with Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on assistance and mutual cooperation.
The MoU was signed by Sebi Chairman M Damodaran and SECP Chairman Razi-ur-Rahman Khan on the occasion of the second annual meeting of the South Asian Securities Regulators’ […]

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India V/S Pakistan 3rd ODI at Kanpur. Sohail Tanvir of Pakistan throws a flying kiss to Gautam Gambhir of India after a deadly delivery.

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A strange incident took place when, at Allama Iqbal Medical College hostel’s mess, a fried frog was seen in egg fried rice given to a student. MBBS students have protested for that.

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