I received the following in a text message soon after the resignation of Musharraf.
Ham Sab Shugal Laga Rahay Thay ‘Faraz’
Musharraff tau Mind Hee Karr Gaya
The following are contributed by Samad Khurram, they are not political neither do they relate to the current situation but are interesting. This Faraz series of SMS started when the wrong news of Faraz’s death broke out. People started sending some very nice verses of Faraz but when they got to know that the news was not correct, they stayed doing what you can read …

I don’t know where this snapshot has been in the past and why is it out this late, but this is definitely interesting. Musharraf won’t even have a clue that this man will be one of his most blatant and bold critics.

This was probably taken at SKMCH back in 2000/01 when Musharraf was looking for political partners to prolong his rule.

I posted the audio version and the lyrics of Sala Ek General a few weeks back here. I have been looking for the video release but could not find any. Yester-night, I found a couple of videos for this track, one of which I found very interesting, catchy and nicely composed. Enjoy the video !

Samad Khurram, Harvard student and an active SAC member refuses to receive award from US Ambassador in protest against killings of Pakistani people.

Hamaray chunay huay kutay hamee pe bhonktay hain
Hamaray rakhay huay kutay bhi hume he ka-tay hain

Hamari he botiyan apas me banttay hain

Kyon kay aik general…..sala aik genral
Download the audio here.
Complete lyrics are available here.

DHR reports:
A seminar was arranged by JI, Lahore on1st of June 08 .More than six hundred people attended this event with zest and zeal.The speakers were Amirul Azeem president of JI Lahore, famous columnist Haroon Rasheed, member Pakistan Bar C Lahore Hafiz Abdur Rehman Ansari, Amina Masood Janjua, chairperson Defence of human rights ,and ameer of JI Pakistan Qazi Hussain Ahmad.

From Seminar for M…

Every one condemned the role of Agencies the way they are picking up innocent civilians and violate their basic human rights on behest of America. …

I just received a report on the protest organized by the DHR for the missing persons in Islamabad. The email was sent by the DHR Office. I am putting up the report as it is:

DHR (Defence of Human Rights) Organized a protest on May 30th, 2008 under the leadership of Amina Janjua .It started 5.00 PM from Geo TV Building Islamabad and marched till ‘D’ chowk in front of the Presidency in Islamabad.There were hundreds of protesters belonging to various groups like political parties and different fractions of society joined …

FASTRising, SAC and YPL joined hands with the CCP in the demonstration in front of Governor House, Lahore on the Mall road , on Sunday, May 11th, 2008, protesting for the restoration of Judiciary.

Photo Source: Express News
It was good to see people showing up in good numbers. Heavy deployments of police were observed who formed a human-hand-chain around the protesters to resist any movement of protesters towards the road. This reminded of our human hand chain at Liberty back in December during days of emergency A fellow protester, …

Now we can see through the fog – the artificially created duplicitous fog to misguide the people of Pakistan by the two-faced stance of PPP. Ever since the Musharraf’s ruling coalition started losing its credibility and the PPP started to get an increased level of attention in the media, it has either remained neutral or taken a stance which lacks blinding clarity.
It is the same PPP which had been known as a symbol of resistance against oppression, dictatorship and foreign involvement in national politics. Back in 70s, the PPP managed …

24 members of the new cabinet have taken oath. Most of them are political opponents of Musharraf, eager to curtail his powers. Musharraf remained grim-faced throughout the ceremony in Islamabad. Several of these ministers taking oath were jailed by Musharraf in the past and he ousted the PML(N)’s government back in 1999 by a military coup. The prime Minister, Gilani himself spent five years in prison under Musharraf’s rule. No party head attended the swearing-in and the members of PML(N) taking oath sported black arm bands to show their defiance …

April 4th, 1979: A fox-look-alike military dictator hangs the country’s ever popular leader, the first elected Prime Minister, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto which was later labeled as ‘Judicial Murder’.
March 23rd, 2007: Yet another military dictator, the illegal President of Pakistan, Musharraf, recalls Bhutto in his auto-biography ‘In the Line of Fire’ as “hypocrite and the worst ruler Pakistan has ever had” and “a fascist dictator”.
March 25th, 2008: At the Aiwan-e-Sadar (President residency) , the oath taking ceremony of the newly elected Prime Minister was not attended by any of the …

All India Muslim League used to hold their annual session to discuss the issues of Muslims of the subcontinent from the start of the 20th century. It was 22-24 March 1940 that the destination for the struggle of Muslims of the subcontinent was set by the name of Pakistan Resolution in one of those sessions. It was only after a short span of 7 years after 1940, that the since visualized state for the Muslims of sub-continent emerged on the map of the world as Pakistan.
Since the inception of …

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“Within 48 hours of the signing of the Murree Declaration between Pakistan’s two leading political parties, we yet again have been hit by the magnitude of the internal security challenge we collectively face. The fifth round of post-election suicide bombing attacks has hit Lahore. Over 25 more of our precious Pakistani people have died and many more precious ones from the badly injured too will go. Beginning with the endless spate of 2007 suicide attacks Pakistan is now regularly bathed in blood. There is no redline left to cross now …

Time to go Musharraf !