I am grateful to Mr. Don Harkins the editor of THE IDAHO OBSERVER, (USA)  and  her  associates  Ms. Anne Wilder   Chamberlain  to  help me prepare my story.
KHALID
When we first began corresponding with Khalid Awan in 2007, we had no idea why he was serving time in U.S federal prison.We soon discovered Awan was one of […]

ISLAMABAD: Indian fighter planes Saturday violated Pakistan’s air space by entering two places in Kashmir and Lahore.
Planes of Pakistan Air Force (PAF), which were already on alert, quickly came into action and forced the India’s fighter jets to leave Pakistan air space, Geo TV sources said. […]

Source: China View
ISLAMABAD, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) — Three deposed judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan took oath of their offices on Friday, according to official Associated Press of Pakistan (APP).
Chief Justice of Pakistan Abdul Hameed Dogar administered oath to the deposed judges including Justice Mian Shakirullah Jan, Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani and Justice Syed […]

Asif Ali Zardari elected new President of Pakistan
IISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party Co-chairman, Asif Ali Zardari was elected as the next President of Pakistan after securing majority of votes in the presidential elections held here on Saturday.
Asif Ali Zardari is Pakistan’s 11th President since 1956, when the country became a republic, excluding acting presidents.
According to the […]

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President Musharraf leaves office alone, besieged and abandoned. He is not leaving the country into strong hands. In fact, in the hands of the most the corrupt, unscrupulous and dangerous criminals this country ever produced. The regime-change game which CIA had initiated about one year ago […]

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PAKISTAN/USA: A Pakistani lady doctor remains missing with her three children five years after her arrest ISSUES: Disappearance; rape; violence against women; torture; right to liberty and security; arbitrary arrest and detention
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We have received information that Dr. Afia Siddiqui, was arrested along with her three children by […]

ISLAMABAD: Nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan has said that North Korea received centrifuges from Pakistan in a 2000 shipment supervised by the security forces.For Full Story Pls Visit http://unbealiveblenews.blogspot.com/2008/07/n-korea-received-centrifuges-from.html

This is in reply to the letter of WG.CDR. (R) AHMED S. JAN (DAWN, 20th May). I completely disagree with his notion that Zardari is abiding with the Bhurban Deceleration and Nawaz Sharif is not. I would request him to read the text of the accord once again:
1 - Allied parties, the Pakistan Peoples Party […]

ISLAMABAD: President Pervez Musharraf said that he could not resign in current situation and if anyone wants to impeach, there is constitutional procedure available for it.
Talking to senior journalists here on Saturday, Musharraf said that political and economical situation of the country is worst and he is always talking about reconciliation.
Replying to a question about […]

I read a book recently and a lot of what was written - even though fiction - seemed to be true for Pakistan. The book showed how people from a democratic country, who had gone through a major man-made calamity, grabbed onto the idea of a kingdom in hopes of finding a better leader.
In terms […]

Source: FASTRising
SAC and YPL joined hands with the CCP in the demonstration in front of Governor House, Lahore on the Mall road , on Sunday, May 11th, 2008, protesting for the restoration of Judiciary.
It was good to see people showing up in good numbers. Heavy deployments of police were observed who formed a human-hand-chain around […]

Source: Teeth Maestro
An article written by Abbas Kassar in The Pakistan Weekly caught my eye which was titled Musharraf Threatens To Dissolve Assemblies If Judges Restored, it raises some serious concerns about the looming threat wielded by Musharraf and his right to exercise article 58-2(B) of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan. Quite simply utilizing this […]

Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan’s ruling coalition has failed to agree on a plan to restore judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, but will reinstate them “soon”, former premier Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday.
Sharif, the head of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party, held two days of talks with Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain opposition […]

The Restoration of judges is utmost essential for the stability of our nation. Mass protests by lawyers, boycott of the courts by them and political instability has shaken the foundations of this country. The existence of our nation has been dared as there is no respect for the most prominent leader of the country even […]

Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Pakistan’s new government may reinstate judges sacked by embattled President Pervez Musharraf by the end of this month, a party in the ruling coalition said on Monday.
The comment came as Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, met fellow coalition leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif […]

This is an account of my parents’ meeting with CJ Iftikhar Chaudhry the day after he was freed from house arrest.
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The Day We Met the Chief Justice of Pakistan
Iftikhar Chaudhry Was Finally Free After Five Months of Confinement
All these years we, my wife and I, used to envy all those people who had met the […]

By Syed Ale Natiq (ale-xpressed.blogspot.com
Now we can see through the fog - the artificially created duplicitous fog to misguide the people of Pakistan by the two-faced stance of PPP. Ever since the Musharraf’s ruling coalition started losing its credibility and the PPP started to get an increased level of attention in the media, it has […]

Ansar Burney completed his tenure as the first ever caretaker minister of human rights. During his four months stint in the Ministry of Law, Burney worked hard tirelessly for providing a safe passage for suspected and convicted enemies of Pakistan while completely disregarding Pakistanis. He even went a step further by actively trying to dissuade […]

Sources: Associated Press & Reuters
Pictures of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry’s departure from his residence in Islamabad, arrival at Quetta airport and welcome rally [CLICK HERE]
On Monday, supporters carried baskets of rose petals to shower Chaudhry at Quetta airport. Hundreds of flag-waving political activists and black-suited lawyers gathered at Quetta’s airport to greet Chaudhry. In the […]

Source: Gulf News
By Farhan Bokhari
March 30, 2008
In less than a week since Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, the deposed chief justice of the supreme court, was released from effective house arrest, Pakistan’s political landscape has changed rapidly.
The bottom line is apparently that as long as Chaudhry’s future remains uncertain, Pakistan’s future, too, would remain uncertain.
There are many […]

GEO channel’s ‘Capital Talk’, a current affairs programme, which is hosted by Hamid Mir invited two very important guests to discuss the extra constitutional measures taken by President General(R) Pervaiz Musharaf. The guests were Aitzaz Ahsan, a warrior against anarchy, and Attorney General Pakistan Malik Mohd Qayyum- the Captain of the Defence Team of Musharaf. […]

It is being reported by Aaj TV and Express News that Justice Ramday is being forcefully evicted from his official residence in Islamabad’s Judges Colony. The locks on the gates have been also broken. At the moment lawyers lead by Athar Minallah are talking with the police about this issue outside his house. Justice Ramday has himself been […]

Source: The New York Times
By JANE PERLEZ
If it was not yet clear to Washington that a new political order prevailed here, the three-day visit this week by America’s chief diplomat dealing with Pakistan should put any doubt to rest.
The visit by Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte turned out to be series of indignities […]

Source: Chicago Tribune
Smuggling of goods, homework comes to an end—as does boredom
By Kim Barker 
For almost five months, friends smuggled what the family needed over the back wall: mobile phones and phone chips, two birthday cakes, a remote-controlled toy car, extra groceries and homework.
Inside, the two teenage girls and their younger brother rarely opened the curtains […]

Source: Daily Times
Sacked Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will visit his hometown of Quetta on March 31 to meet relatives and address Balochistan bar associations, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Aitzaz Ahsan told reporters on Wednesday.
This announcement came after a meeting of senior lawyers and judges convened at the residence of the […]