On the fourth day since the imposition of emergency in the country, no arrests or protests took place. However, for a second consecutive day, a heavy contingent of police and Rangers laid siege to the KPC premises for several hours to thwarting any plan of the journalists to carry out a protest rally. Just one […]
(PPF/IFEX) – Police in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, raided and threatened to seal the printing press of the Jang Group, Pakistan’s largest media house, on 5 November 2007, after the management refused to follow verbal orders from government officials to stop printing the daily “Awam”, one of the group’s evening newspapers. According to the Jang […]
LAHORE, Nov 6: Senator S M Zafar, chairman of the Human Rights Society of Pakistan and senior vice-president of the ruling PML, has condemned the countrywide crackdown on lawyers and human rights activists who were protesting against an extra-constitutional action which is directly related to judiciary and the lawyers community. In a statement issued here […]
LAHORE, Nov 6: The director of the Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday that President Gen Pervez Musharraf had imposed martial law disguised as emergency. “We are witnessing martial law under the garb of emergency. It will be harmful for the country and its citizens.” I.A. Rahman criticised the abridgement of the judiciary’s powers and […]
MULTAN, Nov 6: Police continued to wield baton and rough up lawyers and political activists in parts of Punjab with a pitched battle taking place on the Multan court premises leading to injuries and arrests of some lawyers. Another nine advocates suffered hurts in the rough and tumble in Sialkot. The total number of those […]
LAHORE, Nov 6: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Chairperson Asma Jehangir sees no other solution to the ongoing crisis except forming a government of national reconciliation minus Gen Pervez Musharraf. In an e-mail message on Tuesday, she said the proposed set-up must be backed by the military. She also called upon the international community […]
ISLAMABAD: A non-government organisation (NGO) ‘Bardashat’ was launched on Tuesday to counter increasing extremism in society by Senator Nilofar Bakhtiar. The NGO will be named and its manifesto will be published in all regional languages to convey the message of tolerance at the grassroots level. Addressing a press conference, NGO President Bokhtiar said growing intolerance […]
ISLAMABAD: The government will soon issue a special code of conduct for the media, Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema said on Tuesday. “The Information Ministry is busy finalising a code of conduct for the media in consultation with the stakeholders, and it will be issued shortly,” Cheema told Daily Times by telephone. He did […]
HYDERABAD, Nov 6: Lawyers across the province boycotted courts against the imposition of emergency on the second day running on Tuesday and staged rallies, marches and demonstrations and held meetings within the courts’ premises after heavy contingents of police manning all the entry and exit points stopped them from taking their protest to roads. In […]
PESHAWAR, Nov 6: Militants seized the town of Madyan in Swat on Tuesday and hoisted their flags over buildings after security forces surrendered, police and residents said. Madyan is the third town to come under the effective control of followers of Maulana Fazlullah, who is demanding enforcement of Sharia in Swat. “They seized Madyan town […]
ISLAMABAD, Nov 6: An eight-member Supreme Court bench headed by newly installed Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar on Tuesday overruled a seven-judge decision that had struck down the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) soon after its proclamation and declared that the earlier order should not be deemed to have been passed. “The order is set aside […]
PESHAWAR: Mulla Fazlullah-led local Taliban on Tuesday announced the enforcement of Shariah in Swat by appointing administrators for five subdivisions now under their control. The announcement, which would further provoke the government, was made as sporadic clashes continued between the militants and the security forces deployed in lower parts of the Swat Valley. Militants, who […]
KARACHI: Satellite dish and receivers have recorded a sharp price hike of an average 83 per cent and were in short supply after cable operators were ordered to suspend their services following the state of emergency declared in the country on Saturday. Muhammad Rizwan, a dealer in satellite decoders at the electronics market in Saddar […]
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday endorsed the imposition of emergency and the Provisional Constitutional Order. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz chaired the cabinet meeting, which also endorsed the president’s commitment to early completion of the third and final phase of the democratic process, which he had initiated after assumption of power. The cabinet also fully […]
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