Source: AFP
Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq on Tuesday offered to talk to players considering a boycott of September’s Champions Trophy, saying he would help to allay their security concerns.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced last week that the tournament would stay in Pakistan, prompting fears of a boycott by non-Asian countries which opposed the decision.
“If […]

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Source: The Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani lawyers began a nationwide boycott of the courts Monday to pressure the president to reinstate senior judges he sacked under a state of emergency more than three months ago.
The boycott was called by the Pakistan Bar Council, the country’s main lawyers’ group, and is to continue through […]

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Source: [Emergency] Mailing List 
Ali Malik
In the outrage post emergency, I was confused about whether the opposition should boycott the elections or not? For instance, soon after emergency, when a Lahore based journalist (and one for whom I have high regard for), currently in Karachi, was emotionally advocating oppositions’ boycott of the polls, my only response was, […]

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Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
Shah Farman
Dear Malik
  Let me tell you why boycott is the only option ?
  to protect the constitution from subverting,abrogating
  and helding in abyince we have only article 6 of the
  the consitution,but that didnt work so far because
  the dictators know that they can get indemnity from
  any parliament elected under […]

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Source:International Herald Tribune (Associated Press)
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan’s election campaign began in earnest Monday, a day after former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif dropped threats to boycott the balloting to protest the authoritarian rule of President Pervez Musharraf.
Sharif embarked on a tour of the country to stump for his Pakistan Muslim League-N party, even though election authorities […]

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Source: Emergency (Mailing List)
The following is an open letter from Aitzaz Ahsan to the lawyer community.

AITZAZ & ASSOCIATES
Advocates and Attorneys
5 Canal Bank, Zaman Park, Lahore
Phones (92-42) 6362690-6369725
FAX (92-42) 6362545
House No. 10, Street 16, F-6/3, Islamabad
Phones (92-51) 2206545-2206546
 
Aitzaz Ahsan
M.A. Cantab
Barrister-at-Law
Senior Advocate Supreme Court
President Supreme Court Bar Association.
 

My dear colleagues, […]

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Source: Reuters
By Zeeshan Haider
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition parties began mapping out on Tuesday a list of demands that President Pervez Musharraf must meet to prevent their boycott of a January general election.
Former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif met in Islamabad on Monday and decided to set a deadline for the government […]

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Source: Bloomberg
By Khalid Qayum and Paul Tighe
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) — Pakistani opposition leader Nawaz Sharif meets Benazir Bhutto today to try to persuade her to join a boycott of general elections in January to protest President Pervez Musharraf’s state of emergency restrictions.

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Source: The News
By Mumtaz Alvi
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf Imran Khan has asked the opposition parties not to take part in the elections being held under the Provisional Constitution Order (PCO), saying if they did, it would amount to treason with the masses.
Speaking at a news conference at the party’s central […]

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