Source: BBC News
Two directors of a Pakistani currency company have been remanded in custody over allegations that they illegally transferred millions of dollars abroad.
The two directors of Khanani and Kalia International (KKI), one of the biggest foreign exchange companies, were arrested on Saturday.
Their company’s license to trade has also been suspended for a month […]

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Pakistan’s president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, acknowledged publicly August 12 that Taliban forces are using Pakistan’s border region as a base from which to launch attacks against U.S. and NATO troops occupying Afghanistan.
“There is support from these areas to Taliban activity inside Afghanistan,” said Musharraf in a joint appearance with Afghan president Hamid Karzai at the […]

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ISLAMABAD: The Establishment Division on Monday issued an ambiguous notification explaining the package and remunerations of the newly-appointed chairman-cum-managing director of the state-owned Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV).
The letter of the Establishment Division bearing No 1/64/2008-E-6, dated June 30, 2008, says that besides the fixed remuneration of the new chairman PTV, any other “financial benefits” are […]

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Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has issued a long charge-sheet against the deposed superior court judges, saying they never came to his rescue and were responsible for his eight years in jail. We heard about political victimization but Zardari is giving birth to judicial victimization. Zardari wants to victimize the judiciary because […]

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Letter to Pakistan Chief of Army Staff
General Pervaiz Ashfaque Kayani,
Abdul Basit Khawaja
Campaign to Restore Democracy to Pakistan
General Kiyani Sahib,
Every citizen of Pakistan who wants to chose the path majorly of Jinnah’s Ideologies would applaud your February 13th decision to recall all military officers from Pakistan’s civil departments. Pakistan’s bourgeoning civil society will be strengthened through […]

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Source: Reuters
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan authorities rearrested on Friday a lawyer who had spearheaded opposition to President Pervez Musharraf, less than 18 hours after he had been released from detention for a Muslim holiday, his family said.

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Source: The Emergency Times 
By Farhat Haq: Dawn, December 14, 2007
UNTIL Nov 3, when President Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan, I was living the life of an academic in the safety and comfort of a small Midwestern college town in the US where my biggest worry was that my sixteen-year-old son now had […]

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Imran Khan has been arrested at Punjab University. He has been manhandled by students, and has been handed over to the police. The Islami-Jameet-e-Tuleeba (IJT) has played a major hand in his arrest. According to reports, it may have been the plains cloth cops and intelligence officials who might have posed as students during the […]

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KARACHI, Nov 8 (AP): Three politicians and a union activist were charged with treason for making anti-government speeches in the city i, a…More>>

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ISLAMABAD, Nov 8 (AFP): Police rounded up about 400 supporters early Thursday of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto in a crackdown hours after she called…More>>

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7 Nov 2007: Opposition figure Imran Khan says he is moving around Lahore to prevent his arrest under emergency rule in Pakistan.
 

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RAWALPINDI, Nov 7 (APP): The police detained five of the lawyers who were holding a demonstration on Murree road on Wednesday against the…More

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The situation in the country is uncertain. There is a strong crackdown on the press and lawyers. Majority of the judges of the Supreme Court and four High Courts have not taken oath. The Chief Justice is under house arrest (unofficially) . The President of the Supreme Court Bar (Aitzaz Ahsan) and 2 former presidents, […]

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