Massive crackdown / Detentions (threads merged)

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Sad state of affairs, really.

Zafarul Haq put under house arrest as Punjab crackdown continues

LAHORE: In order to hinder lawyers’ long march and sit-in, police on early Wednesday have launched crackdown against lawyers and opposition leaders in several Punjab districts including Lahore,… Meanwhile, police have been ordered for home confinement of Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif, Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Imran Khan.

According to police sources, many activists belonging to PML-N and Jamat-e-Islami have been apprehended during raids on their homes while gigantic containers have been brought as barrier on the way of lawyers’ long march and sit-in.
Police carried out several raids on homes and offices of Jamat-e-Islami workers in Lahore and PML-N’s members Punjab assembly including Bilal Yasin, Waseem Ahmed and Secretary Nawaz Sharif Khwaja Imran Nazir and political Secretary Shahbaz Sharif Noshad Hameed but all succeeded to flee and have gone in hiding, sources said.

Police also raided in Vihari, Gujranwala, Shaikhupura, Faisalabad and Sialkot, sources added.

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shame … Shame … Shame

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Is it to stop what was referred to as 'majma' of a few hundred people?

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ISLAMABAD: The spokesperson of deposed Chief Justice and lawyer leader Athar Minallah has been arrested near Judges colony here on Wednesday,

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^^ Good Going... I bet Zardari is wetting his pants...

This really means that whatever govt was saying that NS has no support in Pakistan was a blunt lie, govt. is scared to death and will cross any limit to stop this long march...

Good Show NS, atleast this show us the democratic mentality of the PPPP govt.

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This is worst

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We need to get rid of Dictatosrship once and for all in Pakistan! All Pakistanis must contribute to this **Pakistan March **in any way they can!!

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Ganja Nawaaz is equally to blame for this mess. The BB(bald brothers) are hell bent on destroying Pakistan for their personal agenda which is not complete without Iftikhar Chor Chaudhry.

Zardari on the other hand is enjoying his stint at president while it lasts.

The only savior...the army takes over...Mr. Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani...please stand up and save the country from his huge mess.

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^^ and appoint you as his advisor!!!

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Lack of hair is the only fault you guys can find?

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this is brutality and undemocratic behaviour. another marshal law but civil marshal law. ehh?
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What is undemocratic about protesting mate?!

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They are making up for Musharraf's ugliness.

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Pakistani authorities on Wednesday decided to put Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif and his borther Shahbaz Sharif under house arrest to prevent a planned long march by the opposition party workers and lawyers to Islamabad, a private TV reported. The police launched a crackdown against lawyers and opposition leaders early Wednesday in several Punjab districts, including Lahore, the report said. According to the report, the police have been ordered for home confinement of Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif, Jamat-e-Islami leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed and Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan. The opposition said they would go ahead with their march to demand the government for reinstatement of judges who were sacked by former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf. Many activists belonging to the PML-N and Jamat-e-Islami have been apprehended during raids on their homes. The police carried out several raids at the offices and homes of Jamat-e-Islami workers in Lahore and PML-N’s members in Punjab. However, many members managed to flee and gone in hiding,private TV said. The police also raided their premises in Vihari, Gujranwala, Shaikhupura, Faisalabad and Sialkot, it said.

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Crackdown in Multan

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This is to all the Zardari/Mush/Altaf lovers out there:

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I hate Zardari.... but i am a Supporter of Musharaf.
as i have said this many times before........... Democracy is not ment for Pakistan. when even Democracy come it only Brings Disaster. Nothing Else

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So that makes you a supporter of the NRO, the unconstitutional presidential rule which automatically makes you a Zardari fan. p.s. even Musharraf declared his love for Zardari in India, ab tu maan jayo. Also, up until the time he realized, I thought Musharraf was a ‘democratic’ ruler with 98% of the people of Pakistan backing him :hehe:

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There are many faults, external and internal, would you admit? :)

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Some of the political activists and lawyers it seems are more clever than the authorities…

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ISLAMABAD: Dozens of political activists and lawyers were arrested in Islamabad and across the Punjab Wednesday in a bid to thwart a planned protest march on the capital, police said.
Thirty five political activists and lawyers were arrested in Islamabad during raids launched overnight and continuing beyond daybreak, a senior police officer told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Those rounded up include members of Pakistan’s most popular opposition party, which is headed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who was last month disqualified from contesting elections.
A top leader in Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) party, Raja Zafarul Haq, was placed under house arrest, police said.

Police dressed in civilian clothes attempted to arrest lawyers’ movement leader Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan from his residence early Wednesday morning but he was not present at the time. :smiley:

Many lawyers and MPs have gone into hiding to avoid detention, and were unreachable by telephone at their homes and offices. :smiley:

Police also searched in vain for cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who lives just outside the capital. :smiley:

In Lahore police confirmed further arrests after authorities banned protests and ordered paramilitary troops to be on alert in a bid to prevent this week’s planned ‘long march’ demanding legal reforms.

‘Raids are being conducted at various places in the city and some arrests have been made,’ senior police official Amjad Saleemi told AFP.
‘The government has provided lists of people to police and raids are being made to arrest them,’ he added.
Saleemi did not say who or how many people had been arrested.
Punjab MPA Iftikahr Baloch’s house was raided and eight people were arrested from there.
Women Action Forum’s Tahira Abdullah was detained for three hours. She has now been released.
Similar raids also took place in Vehari, Gujranwala, Shaikhupura, Faisalabad and Sialkot.
A government official told AFP he expected ‘hundreds of people’ to be rounded up before the long march and that lists of ‘miscreants’ were being prepared in districts across Punjab province.
Pervez Malik, a local leader in PML-N, said police raided the homes of party MPs and arrested ‘dozens’ of workers in Lahore.
Ameer-al Azeem, the Lahore chief of opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami said that ‘some 15 to 20’ workers in the organisation’s youth wing had been detained.
In the central Multan district, police arrested 28 workers from opposition parties, district PML-N chief, Allah Nawaz Noorani, told AFP.
There was no immediate confirmation on the numbers from police.