Source: Daily Times 
* Achakzai says martial law still prevails in form of NSC
By Manzoor Ali Shah
PESHAWAR: Pakhtoonkhawa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) leader Mahmood Khan Achakzai said on Friday that the people of Pakistan had voted against the dictatorship and that now President Pervez Musharraf should admit defeat and resign.
Addressing a news briefing after a two-day […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Report says major human rights problems included restrictions on citizens’ right to change their government, extra-judicial killings, torture, and disappearances
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: The human rights situation worsened during 2007, stemming primarily from President Pervez Musharraf’s decision to impose a 42-day state of emergency, suspend the Constitution and dismiss superior court judges, according […]

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What should be the priorities of the new government that comes to power in Islamabad, Pakistan?
Currently, there are many things being discussed seemingly as the priorities of the government; some of them are the revival of the 1973 constitution by scrapping the constitution currently in vogue, the removal of 58-2b, the restoration of deposed judges […]

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The silent majority is by definition silent, and therefore generally unable to exercise rights as bestowed to them by the constitution. Well, being a Pakistani, I dont even know what the hell our constitution says …yes, had to memorize the consititution(s!) in Pak studies but the majority Pakistanis still do not know what it stands […]

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Source: The Nation
LAHORE - President, National Workers Party, Abid Hassan Minto, has called upon the upcoming assembly to carry a resolution to reinstate the deposed judges and to scrape all actions taken in pursuance of the state of emergency of November 3, in its first formal meeting.
Addressing a press conference here Wednesday Minto said no […]

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Source: Dawn
By Nasir Iqbal and Ashraf Mumtaz
ISLAMABAD / LAHORE: Controversy lies in store for the opening session of the new National Assembly as the interim government’s legal experts have decided to get printed a fresh edition of the Constitution, incorporating all amendments introduced by President Pervez Musharraf during the emergency rule.
The question haunting the PML-N […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
Guest Post by Anam Jamali
Pakistan enjoys a history of judicial slavery and subordination - excuse me for the blunt and unparliamentary use of words as I understand having such opinion is an offense nowadays.
Symbolic of judicial politicization is Judge Roland Freisler, a Nazi German Judge, whose court provided protection and legal cover to […]

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Source: Times of India
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s deposed Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chowdhury has said the country has drifted away from the ideals and vision of its founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah and is passing through the “darkest period” in its political history.

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Source: The Emergency Times
Courtesy The New York Times
By AITZAZ AHSAN
Lahore, Pakistan
THE chief justice of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, and his family have been detained in their house, barricaded in with barbed wire and surrounded by police officers in riot gear since Nov. 3. Phone lines have been cut and jammers have been installed […]

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Source: Associated Press
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — President Pervez Musharraf will lift Pakistan’s state of emergency on Saturday only after changing the constitution to ensure that he cannot be hauled before a court, a senior official said Thursday.
Musharraf purged the judiciary, jailed thousands of opponents and silenced television news channels after he suspended the constitution and […]

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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: Emergency (Mailing List)
Did you know that there is a system in our constitution, as per the 1969 act, in section “49-O” that a person can go to the polling booth, confirm his identity, get his finger marked and convey the presiding election officer that he doesn’t want to vote for anyone!
Yes such a feature […]

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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 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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