• November 6, 2007
• News Archives

Joint statement by Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) and the Lawyers for Lawyers Foundation (L4L) The above listed organizations of Canadian and Dutch lawyers condemn military president General Pervez Musharraf’s suspension of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, in the strongest possible terms. The Emergency Declaration of November 3, 2007, the Provisional Constitutional […]

• November 6, 2007
• Media and Governance, News Archives

LAHORE: The police used brute force on Monday to crush the lawyers’ countrywide protests against the imposition of emergency. In Lahore, the premises of the High Court became a battlefield when the police resorted to baton-charge and teargasing to disperse angry lawyers who wanted to take out a protest rally against the imposition of emergency. […]

• November 6, 2007
• Media and Governance, News Archives

* 4 journalists also reportedly arrested KARACHI: Police took over 400 lawyers and activists, including leaders, of different opposition parties during various raids conducted throughout the city after emergency was imposed. Furthermore, four journalists were also reported to have been taken into custody. Police are still carrying out raids to arrest lawyers and opposition party […]

• November 6, 2007
• Media and Governance, News Archives

FAISALABAD, Nov 5: Police sealed the district court premises and local press club on Monday and arrested more than 70 lawyers and some activists of political parties. Heavy police contingents were deployed outside the district court premises, press club, all major markets and eight bazaars of the Clock Tower area. Reports reaching here suggested that […]

• November 6, 2007
• Media and Governance, News Archives

Karachi:As the Lawyers, journalists, members of civil society, and political activists in the city bore the brunt of action by law-enforcement agencies, the metropolis remained in the grip of crippling uncertainty and turmoil as the first working day after proclamation of emergency came to a close. At least 150 lawyers, media persons, political parties, and […]

• November 6, 2007
• News Archives, PPF Activities

Dr. Mohammad Ali Shaikh’s book ‘Satellite Television and Social Change in Pakistan: a case study of rural Sindh’ will be launched at Karachi Press Club on Saturday, November 10. Source: The News Date:11/6/2007

• November 6, 2007
• News Archives, PPF Activities

ISLAMABAD: Action Aid Pakistan is organising a two-day training workshop on ‘Women’s rights and gender sensitive reporting of crimes against women’ here on November 22-23. The main objective of the workshop is to sensitise journalists about women’s rights issues, raise awareness of various forms of abuses of women’s rights, identify patriarchal elements within and outside […]