Students: Best of luck and thank you for bringing these links to our attention.

Most of us are not aware of what is happening around us due to a COMPLETE media blackout.

One of Pakistan’s leading private news channels, GEO, now provides an online streaming service both audio and video.

You can access this service at the following email address:

http://www.geo.tv

The students at LUMS held a VERY successful peaceful rally today on their campus. Details of the rally as well as other news regarding the emergency situation in Pakistan are posted regularly on the following blog:

http://pakistanmartiallaw.blogspot.com/

Whether you’re pro-martial law, anti-establishment, socialist, communist… YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO THE TRUTH and this is one way we are bringing it to YOU.

However, most of Pakistan is in the dark. HELP PAKISTAN by making sure each and every one of you KNOWS the TRUTH.

Spread the word! Paste this blog site EVERYWHERE you can. Print and distribute articles if you can.

It’s the least you can do.

Prayers, hope, and much love.

- The Students of Pakistan.

p.s. If you wish to receive emails regarding the latest developments in LUMS, Lahore or all over Pakistan, kindly send us an email at:

studentactioncommittee@gmail.com

or

theemergencytimes@gmail.com

Our blog: pakistanmartiallaw.blogspot.com

We will be releasing photos and videos daily.

Good luck with the struggle.

PS. Was sorry to hear that one of our all time favourite cricketers had to go into hiding, Imran Khan!!

Kashif: Welcome, and you are correct that we must all register our protest.

Marigold: Thanks.

Dad: Musharraf was actually speculating that those released might have been the ones committing the recent terrorist acts. And he was so sure of their being “black” as in confirmed terrorists, but that’s what courts are for. If they were terrorists and the agencies had proof, then it should have been presented to the court, so they could be punished appropriately.

Specs: Musharraf’s whole speech was surreal. Read this article which is funny but accurate.

As for Musharraf’s allusion to Lincoln, it turns out that Musharraf is referring to Lincoln via Nixon which would be sad if it wasn’t so funny.

Wahaj: Welcome.

Do you mean to say the Judges were wrong then and now they Judges have reformed themselves?

May be the Bhutto judgment was wrong. It’s not necessary after all that if judges are right today then they must have been right then, or vice versa.

I have only seen one type of Governance since Pakistan was created, Subjgate the masses and rule them with all the power and do nothing to the uplift of Pakistan.

Whose fault would that be?

Actually I don’t disagree since I have some major agreements with the libertarian critique of government. But I do see the issue pragmatically. Hence, what we (or rather those in Pakistan) have to consider is which path would lead to a better tomorrow. My contention is that a military government cannot, almost by definition. A democratic government might slowly and haltingly get us there.

Certain facts need to be recorded. Extremism is a reaction to exremism and a direct outcome of America’s unlawful and inhuman actions in Afghanistan, Iraq and then in tribal areas of Pakistan.

Pervez Musharraf is the only ruler in the world who picked people of his country illegally and sold them to Bush @ $ 5000 per person.

Pervez Musharraf is totally wrong in saying that people released as a result of superior courts decisions have committed illegal acts. Out of those who have been released on court orders, a few died because they were near death when released. Most of the remaining are under medical treatment some of whom cannot even speak. They were brought to that state as a result of crualties committed by agencies.

The government had failed even to produce a samblence of proof of their involment in any type of antisocial activity in spite of the fact that they were with agencies for one to three years.

Our Judiciary is under siege, they are effectively arrested as if they
are nothing more than common criminals. Imagine majority of the Supreme
Court is being held hostage in any civilized country. How shameful. With
them a majority of the High Court Judges of Pakistan are also being held
hostage by the present regime.

And then the usurpers who call themselves the government of Pakistan
have the galls to talk about that they are doing all this for the
betterment of the country. They speak to us as if they are speaking to
their slaves. They talk down to us.

How long, how long are we going to suffer this ignominy? When will we
stand up and be counted?

All these years I have been disillusioned by the dream called Pakistan.
A ray of hope arose when the lawyer’s community and the Higher Judiciary
rose to the occasion.

A hope that yes maybe I too might have some recourse against the people
who sit in the corridors of power and who are not used to any one
questioning their authority and wrong doings.

A hope, that I too can enjoy basic freedoms and human rights.

But for now it seems like it was just an amazing dream that has just
ended too quickly. The ray of hope was quashed by those who are nothing
more than Usurpers of this nation’s rights and hopes. And darkness
prevails again. The fight between good and evil has moved into its
second phase.

The judges have done their duty, the lawyers and ex judges have done
their duty, the media has done its duty, and now the bugle blows for us
the citizens of Pakistan wherever we are to do our duty.

My fellow Pakistanis there is no better time to be counted than now, let
your voices be heard, let the people who are assaulting us in the cover
of darkness know that we will not take it lying down any more.

Let the usurpers and their cohorts know that Pakistan was not created
for them but for us the common man, so that we could enjoy life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.

I ask my fellow Pakistanis to register their protest peacefully and for
those who are in Pakistan to lay wreaths on the gates of the judiciary
that has been murdered by the evil usurper, and do it in large numbers.
So that by leaving behind these wreaths we can let these usurpers know
that yes we are peaceful but we are aware and we will not let them take
away our rights without a fight.

I suggest we lay these wreaths outside all the courts in Pakistan. And
mourn the death of our brave judiciary. And then when we have done this
in the thousands, then we should rejoice and welcome the new judiciary
which has arisen out of these ashes the brave judiciary who lies
captured in the hands of these usurpers, and rise to free them from
these shackles.

For those who are not in Pakistan I suggest, we register our protest by
writing to the editors of the various influential newspapers and writing
or calling our elected representatives wherever we are and letting them
know that they need to now stand up with the moderates and the democracy
loving people of Pakistan and only then is there any salvation against
the extremists that they are trying so hard to defeat. Or otherwise what
stares them in their faces is a civil war in Pakistan. And that is not
good. For you don’t want another Iraq or Iran in the face of Pakistan.

It is time to be counted. Time to let our voices be heard. Stop all that
you are doing. Your country needs nothing more than for you to be on the
streets, and on the phones or with your emails to let you voices be
heard among all mankind that we will not take this lying down.

However, I must record my discomfort with the following:

“… it is likely that the longer the martial law continues, the more the extremists and the Islamists will be strengthened.”

This term “Islamist” has no meaning to most Muslims. This is mainly used in the Western media (the “anglosphere”) and usually as an epithet.

I don’t know of any Muslim who calls himself an “Islamist”. It is an external label and usually a derogatory term meant to discredit and demonise those Muslims who openly oppose, for example, US policies.

To me, there “Islamist” means nothing. I know Islam and I know Muslims. And if ” Islam will be strengthened” or “Muslims will be strengthened” then there is no harm in that.

Sorry I know this isn’t the main issue here, but this is just pent up feeling for a long time..