Hamlet,
Macbeth or Don Quixote?
Anjum Niaz
The News, November 27, 2007 |
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Journalist
Joins Protests - Pakistan Under Arrest
Globe - SICCGLOBELINK
November 27, 2007 |
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Niaz, the veteran journalist, currently at Harvard University analyses
the mind frame of a youthful Pakistani oblogger who recently accused
media of being funded by the American and the European NGO's.....read
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Elections
for national assembly have many protesting in Pakistan. Freedom of
speech rights fuels fire for an already politically unstable Pakistan.Tuesday
proved bloody as Karachi police, armed with.....read
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Forced
off air, political TV shows set up in street
Pamela Constable
The Washington Post, November 27, 2007 |
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International
Bar Association condemns targeting of lawyers by Pakistan authorities
November 26, 2007 |
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popular TV talk shows, once touted by the government as proof of democratic
progress but now banned from broadcasting, took to the streets last
week, drawing enthusiastic crowds around a sidewalk.....read
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The
International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI)
today condemned the continuing arrest and detention of lawyers in
Pakistan, despite the Government’s claims that it was easing
emergency rule.....read
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General
Musharraf controls the media and judiciary
Talat
Hussain
The Guardian, November 26, 2007 |
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Musharaf
talks about Media limits
The News
November 26, 2007 |
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eight years mismanaging Pakistan, a nuclear-armed state faced with
the demon of extremist violence, General Pervez Musharraf wants to
stick around for another five, this time in the guise of a so-called.....read
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RAWALPINDI:
The media cannot be allowed to promote disintegration and push the
nation towards despondency, President General Pervez Musharraf said
on Sunday.Speaking at the ceremony held to mark founding day of the .....read
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Punish
the Journalists, gag the press, the party is on
Kamal Siddiqi
The News, November 26, 2007 |
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Musharraf
and the con game:
Robert Kegan
Washington Post, November 25, 2007 |
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is it that the press is paying for? Why is it that the government
continues to train its guns on the media and is in a mood to teach
them a lesson. The Pakistani press has been fiercely independent more
so because of the extended years it has spent fighting.....read
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There
always seems to be a good reason to support a dictator. In the late
1970s, Jeane Kirkpatrick argued that it was better to support a "right-wing"
dictator lest he be replaced by communists. Right-wing...read
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Pakistan
students fight emergency.
Amber
Rahim Shamsi
BBC Online, November 25, 2007 |
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Political
Talk Defies Ban in Pakistan:
Pamela Constable
Washington Post, November 25, 2007 |
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in Lahore protest against emergency rule Ali
is an undergraduate at the Lahore University of Management Sciences
(LUMS), an elite university best known for churning out business management...read
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ISLAMABAD,
Pakistan, Nov. 24 -- Pakistan's popular TV talk shows, once touted
by the government as proof of democratic progress but now banned from
broadcasting, took to the streets this week, drawing enthusiastic
crowds around a sidewalk stage that replicates...
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Geo
TV President speaks on Curbs on Media
Extended Interview with PBS online
November 24, 2007 |
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Pakistan's
extra-judicial judiciary
Alizeh
Haider
The News, November 23, 2007 |
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Margaret Warner of PBS speaks with Geo Television
President Imran Aslam about Pakistan's recent curbs on the independent
media, imposed when Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared
a state of emergency on November 3...read
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Judging by the defiant posture adopted by General
Musharraf of late, it comes as little surprise that Mr. Negroponte
has been unable to coax the General to give a definite date for
ending the emergency. Unfortunate as it is, the drone of the rhetoric...read
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Digging
in Deeper in Pakistan
Editorial
NY Times, November 23, 2007 |
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Musharraf
and His Collaborators
S Akbar Zaidi
The News, November
23, 2007 |
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Pervez Musharraf has done far too little to drive Al Qaeda and the
Taliban from its Pakistani sanctuaries over the last six years, but
President Bush still insists on linking America's interests to the
general's erratic and authoritarian whims. Even with Pakistan under
martial law, Mr. Bush claimed preposterously this...read
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The emergency in Pakistan has revealed the truth
not just about Musharraf's moderate enlightenment, but also about
the country's liberal elite and the collaborationist political leaders,
especially the PPP. President-general Pervez Musharraf's policy
of enlightened moderation is probably buried under the events of
the last...read
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Media
Under Siege
Dr. Moeed Pirzada
Khaleej Times, November 22, 2007 |
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Choking
the channels
Newsweek
November 21, 2007 |
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IS Karachi. We are all standing, pushing and shoving, outside the
offices of Jang, Pakistan's largest paper. This private compound,
off the famous II Chundrigarh Road, was packed to the last inch. We
are here to protest the continuing ban on country's largest...read
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Shahid
Masood's voice cracked during his last live appearance on Geo News.
Broadcasting from Dubai, the Pakistani pundit and talk show host
was defiant over the news that his nation's most popular private
news channel had been ordered off the air. "We are....read
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Where
We Went Wrong in Pakistan
Michael Gerson
Washington Post, November 21, 2007 |
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Pakistan
must restore judiciary: UN rights chief
AFP
November
20, 2007 |
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was not too long ago that I was in Egypt and as someone who can never
be too far away from discussing politics I tried to engage all manner
of Egyptians into political discussions - our tour guide, our travel
agent in Cairo, our fellow-passengers on the Nile boat, our....read
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KABUL
- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told AFP on Tuesday the
restoration of the independence of Pakistan's judiciary is as important
as the holding of elections.Louise
Arbour also called on Pakistan to lift its state of emergency "in
plenty of time...
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Media
shutdown
Waqas Shaikh
November 19, 2007 |
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am a US Citizen of Pakistani origin and writing to you this letter
with great pain. The people of Pakistan consider UAE, a brotherly
Muslim country and have great regard and respect for its ruling family.
However, the people of Pakistan are deeply hurt and disturbed by the...read
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