Imran
Khan is one of 25,000 jailed innocents
The Telegraph
Jemima Khan, November 19, 2007 |
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Musharraf
and the media
Moeed Pirzada
The Guardian, November 19, 2007 |
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Imran Khan is
the latest senior figure to be arrested in Pakistan as the government
cracks down on internal dissent. His ex-wife Jemima Khan argues
that Pervez Musharraf is proving to be the most repressive leader
in the country's history...read
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In
a rather interesting extension to Pakistan's ongoing political crisis,
President Musharraf has persuaded the UAE media watchdog to shut down
two satellite news channels of Pakistani origin: GEO and ARY. Both
were broadcasting from Dubai's much-celebrated. ...read
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Trampling
of Constitution and Justice in Pakistan
Nasir Gondal,
November 18, 2007 |
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Pakistan's
Collapse, Our Problem
By Frederick W. Kagan and Michael O'Hanlon
NY Times, November 18, 2007 |
Trampling
of Constitution and Justice in Pakistan
Seminar held in New York by Doctors for Democracy and Justice and
was addressed by prominent members of Pakistani civil society and
media. Hundreds of Pakistani Americans attended....read
more |
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AS
the government of Pakistan totters, we must face a fact: the United
States simply could not stand by as a nuclear-armed Pakistan descended
into the abyss. Nor would it be strategically prudent to withdraw
our forces from an improving situation in Iraq to....read
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What
Musharraf must do now
The Financial Times
November 18, 2007 |
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Pakistan's
problems start at the top
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Los Angeles Times, November 18, 2007 |
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current political situation in Pakistan is a perfect illustration
of the maxim that democracy is about much more than voting. After
declaring a state of emergency, dismissing most of the Supreme Court
and locking....read
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Gen.
Pervez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan eight years ago, claiming
that the army had to step in to save the country from corrupt and
incompetent politicians. Since then, he has run both the army and
the....read
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Deposed
judges release ruling against Musharraf
Rauf Klasra,
The News, November 18, 2007 |
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US
Envoy to press Musharraf
The Associated Press,
November 16, 2007 |
| ISLAMABAD:
Three defiant judges of the Supreme Court, who are presently under
house arrest after imposition of emergency, have now declared in their
detailed judgment submitted before the SC last Friday....read
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ISLAMABAD,
Pakistan (AP) -- President Gen. Pervez Musharraf faces a stern warning
from a top American diplomat on Saturday: end emergency rule or wreck
landmark elections and risk undermining....read
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Editors
Guild flays Pakistan's Media Curbs
The Hindu,
November 17, 2007 .....read
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Dubai
considering resuming telecast of recently shut channels,
The News, November 17, 2007 |
NEW
DELHI: The Editors Guild of India on Friday expressed solidarity with
journalists in Pakistan against the curbs on media freedom imposed
after the proclamation
of Emergency |
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DUBAI:
Media authorities in Dubai said Saturday they were considering whether
to allow two leading private Pakistani news channels to resume broadcasting
after shutting them down the day before."We
are.....read
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Winding
Back Martial Law in Pakistan
International Crisis Group
Asia Briefing, 12 November 2007 |
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Journalists
observe black day countrywide
The News
November 10, 2007 |
| General
Pervez Musharraf imposed martial law in Pakistan on 3 November 2007.
He suspended the constitution, sacked the chief justice of the Supreme
Court and removed other judges of that court who....read
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Journalists
Friday observed 'black day' throughout the country on the call of
Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) against the imposition
of emergency in the country, ban on private TV channels....read
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Threats
to bomb media offices, kill owners slated
The News
November 8, 2007 |
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Musharraf's
War on Moderates
TIME
06 November 2007 |
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government issued tough new changes in the media policy on Saturday
stopping the media from criticizing the head of the state, military
or judiciary or showing bodies of the suicide bombers or their victims....read
more |
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The
latest declaration of martial law in Pakistan appears to perpetuate
the same cycle of military rule interspersed by short spasms of ineffectual
and corrupt democracy, a cycle that Pakistanis are....read
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Musharraf
plays his last ace
Syed Saleem Shahzad
Asia Times, 06 November 2007 |
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Pakistan
shakes off US shackles
M K Bhadrakumar
Asia Times, 06 November 2007 |
| KARACHI
- President General Pervez Musharraf's second coup was his ace card
to extend his stay in power. Washington's tacit approval for the implementation
of "extraordinary powers" was conditional....read
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The
pervasive impression is that the impending judgement by the Supreme
Court regarding the propriety of President General Pervez Musharraf's
re-election as president of Pakistan for another....read
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Musharraf
risks Pakistan's ruin
The Star
06 November 2007 |
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Analysis:
Pakistan through Musharraf's eyes
ISAAC KFIR
The Jerusalem Post, 05 November 2007 |
| From
behind a wall of rifles and razor wire, Gen. Pervez Musharraf looks
out on crisis-racked Pakistan and blames everyone but himself. The
chief justice of the Supreme Court is a busybody who "interferes"
with....read
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Pakistani
President Pervez Musharraf's decision to impose emergency law, which
entails suspending parts of the Pakistani Constitution, comes amid
growing insecurity in the country....read
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Tough
new media policy introduced
The News
November 4, 2007 |
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| The government
issued tough new changes in the media policy on Saturday stopping
the media from criticizing the head of the state, military or judiciary
or showing bodies of the suicide bombers or....read
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