Vehari, 30 November: Several PML-Q Pakistan Muslim League-Quiad-e-Azam faction leaders, candidates for NA-167, 168, 169 and 170, here Friday 30 November hailed President Pervez Musharraf's ...announcement to lift emergency on December 16.
General Pervez Musharraf in line with the military traditions of paying farewell calls, visited the Joint Staff Headquarters. President Musharraf will also hand over the command of the country's ...armed forces as Chief of the Army Staff to the Vice Chief General Ishfaq Pervez Kiyani. General Kiyani will assume the charge as the new army chief the same day.
According to the government sources, the special delegation comprised Caretaker Federal Information Minister Nisar A Memon, former Education Minister Senator Javed Ashraf Qazi, former State Minister ...Senator Tariq Azeem, former MNA member of National Assembly Kashmala Tariq and Chairman NCHD Dr Naseem Ashraf...
According to the government sources, the special delegation comprised Caretaker Federal Information Minister Nisar A Memon, former Education Minister Senator Javed Ashraf Qazi, former State Minister ...Senator Tariq Azeem, former MNA member of National Assembly Kashmala Tariq and Chairman NCHD Dr Naseem Ashraf...
Islamabad, 22 November: President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Thursday 22 November telephoned Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed, Chief Adviser of Bangladesh's caretaker government, and expressed condolence...
Passage omitted To realize just how many inconsistencies there are in Pakistan, we have but to review in our mind's eye the sequence of images that have come to us from Karachi, from Islamabad, and ...from Rawalpindi in recent months. We have seen the siege and conquest of a mosque that was occupied and defended by militants of the most rigidly orthodox brand of Islam. We have witnessed the triumphant return home of a woman, Benazir Bhutto, who led the country in the eighties but who, in other Muslim countries, would not be allowed even to drive a car. We have seen horrible carnage perpetrated by suicide attacks in best Iraqi and Afghan style. We have seen the proclamation of martial law by a general, Pervez Musharraf, who has never made any secret of the fact that he is inspired by Kemal Ataturk's nonconfessional and authoritarian model. We have witnessed protest marches organized by lawyers wearing suits and ties and educated in the tradition of the British legal system.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC - Pakistan's High Commission to Trinidad and Tobago, Musa Javed Cholan, Thursday gave Caribbean Community leader a message to take to next month Commonwealth heads of ...Government conference in Uganda. "It doesn't reflect properly. It lacks understanding of the ground realities and the enormous challenges faced by Pakistan and undermines our efforts which are vital for maintaining political stability and preserving the ongoing political process in Pakistan," Cholan said. According to Cholan, Pervez Musharraf's government respects the will of the people as reflected by parliament but it "can't tolerate any deviation from law and order" as it tries to keep the forces of extremism and terrorism at bay.
IAR: Look this is not emergency. This is martial law because Pervez Musharraf has suspended the constitution, although emergency can be imposed within the framework of constitution. The constitution ...provides three options to government: it can suspend fundamental rights of people, it can extend the tenure of legislature assemblies and finally it can make laws for the provinces. While emergency cannot be imposed by the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) but by the President, the orders that Musharraf issued were from the COAS. He has also promulgated a Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) and under this he can make any law. IAR: That is right to a great extent. When Musharraf met foreign diplomats after the promulgation of emergency he did not talk to them about political parties or politicians but he talked much about the judiciary. All previous martial law regimes in Pakistan were directed against political parties, while this one is against the judiciary and media. We have had many martial laws but this is the first time that people have been deprived of the right to information. The regime has not only banned cable operators from showing news channels but has also banned the sale of dish antennas. IAR: The real victims of this coup are the people of Pakistan. When you discriminate against the judiciary and gag the media both suffer, but the ultimate victims are the people. If they do not get a good government, they suffer. Then there is no democracy without the judiciary. As for the media, it has under attack so that people cannot formulate their own opinion by getting relevant information. The government is not against these TV news channels but against what they are doing -- informing people. This is a way to put a stop to the democratic process. So democracy is the real target. All these are pillars of democracy. 2007 NoticiasFinancieras - IPS - All rights reserved
