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Musharraf meets aides after opposition parties form coalition

March 10th, 2008 Aimon · 3 Comments

Source: The emergency Times
ISLAMABAD:President Musharraf was meeting key aides Monday after Pakistan’s main opposition parties agreed to form a coalition and reinstate the judges he sacked last year, officials said. Government officials said Musharraf was ‘meeting legal aides’ at his office in Rawalpindi but did not give details on what was being discussed. Private television […]

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Videos of rigging by MQM

February 22nd, 2008 Sana · 5 Comments

Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
The only channel brave enough to play these videos has been Dawn News in Pakistan.
 It would obviously be too much to ask that pro-MQM channels like Geo and ARY play, or even mention rigging by MQM.
Turn the volume up. Open rigging. 8+ ballot papers being given to EACH MQM voter, all the […]

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Beating the Media Blackout

November 10th, 2007 Editor 1 · No Comments

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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