Source: Attock News 
An enemy in the guise of a friend
Since decades we are breeding snakes, a snake in the grass, we have been ignoring them because we believe in freedom of speech, some foreign implanted agents for the sake of their bread and butter have gone too far that meaning of freedom of speech has […]

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Friday, December 07, 2007, 02:50 AM

A full scale protest was in swing outside the police station. About 80 to 120 people had gathered. There was a candle light vigil, people shouted slogans, sang songs and refused to leave till those arrested were released. We sang the national anthem of Pakistan, to which the line […]

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ISLAMABAD: In order to justify Musharraf’s decision to impose emergency, the federal government has started using official […]

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PAKISTAN Bar Council (PBC) has strongly condemned the solitary confinement of President Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Aitzaz Ahsan at […]

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Petition filed in SHC by Geo News, Geo Entertainment, Geosuper, Aag channels

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ISLAMABAD: President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has summoned a meeting of central leadership of ruling Pakistan Muslim League today (Sunday), sources said.

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WASHINGTON, Nov 10: Human rights activists and Pakistani-Americans demonstrated outside the White House during the weekend to demand an immediate end to emergency rule in Pakistan.

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ISLAMABAD: President Gen. Pervez Musharraf would meet media men on Sunday (today) at 13:30 pm.  Presidential spokesman Maj. Gen. Rashid Qureshi talking to Geo News confirmed that the president will meet media men. President Musharraf would talk on current situation, next general elections and state of emergency in the country, spokesman said.
Source: Geo News

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By M. Ziauddin, Dawn News
 
LONDON, Nov 10: A large gathering of over a couple of thousand people held a protest rally here on Saturday in front of 10 Downing Street demanding President General Musharraf to immediately step down and make way for the revival of democratic process in Pakistan.

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By Ihtasham ul Haque, Dawn News
ISLAMABAD, Nov 10: President and Chief of the Army Staff Gen Pervez Musharraf on Saturday took into confidence the top military commanders about the proclamation of emergency, saying it was a very difficult decision taken in the best interest of the country.

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CRAWFORD, Texas: US President George W. Bush has praised Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf as a strong ally against terrorism and said he had no reason to doubt his pledges to return to democratic rule.

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By Amir Wasim, Dawn News

ISLAMABAD, Nov 10: Pakistan People’s Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto on Saturday kept the entire capital administration and police on the run throughout the day by attending several scheduled and unscheduled events and meeting media personnel on streets.

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By Nasir Iqbal Source: Dawn News

ISLAMABAD, Nov 10: The government on Saturday amended the Army Act of 1952 to give wide-ranging powers to the Army to court-martial civilians.

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Bloggers have played such a key role in this current crisis that CNN has produced a special report on this today. ABC news has also recognized the role of citizen reporting, and has recognized the reporting students as “Pakistan’s fastest-growing guerrilla force “.

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* EARLY LIFE:

– The second of three brothers, Musharraf was born into a middle class Muslim family in India in August 1943. His family moved to the newly created majority-Muslim state of Pakistan following India’s independence and partition in 1947.

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By Augustine Anthony
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan ordered the expulsion of three journalists from a British newspaper for using “foul and abusive” language about the troubled country and its leadership, the government said on Saturday.

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A group of former world leaders including Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter has denounced Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf for imposing emergency rule and suspending the constitution.

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Source: The Washington Post 
By Afsin Yurdakul
‘’I can’t speak for too long on the phone,’’ Asma Jahangir said in a calm, determined tone, ‘‘the military might cut it off.’’ Nonetheless, Pakistan’s leading human rights lawyer and

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By Syed Shoaib Hasan
BBC News, Islamabad

Pakistanis are proving inventive at getting round the news ban.

“They have been selling like hot cakes,” says Saboor, a satellite dish dealer in Islamabad.
Saboor runs an electronic goods store in the Pakistani capital’s upmarket Jinnah Super market.
Items on sale include satellite dishes and decoders for receiving private and […]

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Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has resumed her campaign against emergency rule, following the lifting of a detention order against her. She joined a rally by journalists against a partial news blackout, and called for a fresh wave of protests.
But the former PM was stopped from meeting the dismissed chief justice, who remains under virtual […]

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Eyewitness Photos, Video and Text From Pakistan
 
By Robert Mackey
Source: The New York Times

 
Student protest at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.

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Friday November 9, 2007
Benazir Bhutto spoke to reporters today outside her house in Islamabad, Pakistan.

 
Photo: Tomas Munita for The New York Times

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Friday, November 9, 2007

On the 5th Day of protests at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, students organized a peaceful gathering, characterised by  motivational speeches by students and a faculty member, as well as rousing poetry to mark Iqbal Day, Allama Iqbal being widely known as the Poet of the East, who was a moving […]

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Source: Global Voices Online
by Neha Viswanathan
Students in Pakistan have joined activists in protesting the state of emergency imposed in the country. On 3rd November, the Lahore School of Management Sciences (LUMS) released a draft resolution on behalf of the faculty, students and staff condemning “gross political injustices that the nation has experienced in the past […]

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