Archive for the ‘Pakistan’ Category
January 18th, 2008 at 10:03 am
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:44 pm
A state of emergency has been declared in Pakistan, the country’s constitution has been suspended, all news channels including the foreign news outlets BBC, CNN, Sky News and Al-Jazeera except the state run PTV are off air.
Edit: Under the Provisional Constitution Order the following articles have been suspended: 9, 10, 15,16,17,19 and 25. These articles include the following rights:
- Security of person
- Safeguards as to arrest and detention
- Freedom of movement, etc.
- Freedom of assembly
- Freedom of association
- Freedom of speech, etc.
- Equality of citizens




