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Today lawyers across Pakistan have observed a black day in marking four years since the imposition of Musharraf’s martial law on 3 November 2007. On that day Pakistan’s judiciary including the Chief Justice of Pakistan were sacked and placed under house arrest for a detention that lasted months whilst the lawyers leaders like Munir A Malik [...]

Today’s post is the first of a series of posts that will be published over many weeks. The posts will chart the journey of the lawyers movement  from 9 March 2007 and its  milestones until the historic judgement of the Supreme Court of Pakistan as delivered on 31 July 2009. This post has been a [...]

On November 3 2007 General Musharraf imposed martial law in Pakistan. On that black day Other Pakistan went black and set up a dedicated martial law page as seen below and here: 507 days later martial law has ended as Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry has finally sat in court number one of the Supreme Court. [...]

Injustice Dog(gar) of martial law fame left the Dog(gar) court yesterday standing diminished and degraded just like Musharraf before him. We can  never forget that these midgets of men collaborated as per a Devil’s pact to create an unconstitutional regime in all its evil ushering in once again the dark night of dictatorship and injustice [...]

Today it is the anniversary of  the martial law imposed on the 3rd November by Musharraf. On that day the entire nation was plunged into darkness, a darkness that we remain in to this day. On that day, the Supreme Court was sent home, the Constitution trampled upon as a vile martial law was imposed to [...]

Regular visitors to this blog will know that I end all posts with four words - written under martial law. This post aims to provide the rationale for such a statement which may seem rather dated to some and even incredulous given we have a democractic government in power today. On the surface this may well be true [...]

This is a historic struggle, we want a democratic Pakistan period. Army rule is facing its final death, so let us say from the rooftops Faujistan Murdabad and Pakistan Zindabad. I cannot say it better than the posters below: -  Originally posted on 13th December 2007, 04.12 PK Time, written under MARTIAL LAW

Tomorrow is being observed as a black day in Pakistan and I urge all readers of this post to show solidarity with the noble struggle in Pakistan to rid us of martial law. Pakistani expatriates can show solidarity with Pakistanis on the ground by simply wearing something black tomorrow. The call has been given by [...]

 I am so angry right now, my blood is boiling, I am full of venom and my whole body and spirit is in an uncontrolled rage for I have once again seen the video of Munir A Malik speaking from PIMS hospital. I cannot say it better than Sophia Ali at Teeth Maestro who says [...]

In his sorry excuse of a lip quivering address to the nation General Musharraf informed the 160m citizens of Pakistan that he was willing to give his life for Pakistan. Little did he know that as he uttered those words, his actions in declaring an ‘emergency’ (its martial law, end of) has sealed his fate. [...]