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| India-Pakistan |
| Hundreds of lawyers, opposition party workers arrested |
| 2007-11-08 |
| Police across Punjab on Wednesday launched a massive crackdown against Pakistan PeopleÂ’s Party (PPP) leaders and workers to foil their Rawalpindi rally and arrested around 400 of the partyÂ’s workers, according to AFP. PPP sources revealed that police in Lahore had raided the PPP Secretariat in Faisal Town and arrested about 100 workers from there. The police also raided the residences of PPP leaders, including Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Naveed Chaudhry, as well as arresting 50 PPP workers from their houses. Baton-charged: Meanwhile, riot police tear-gassed, baton-charged and arrested PPP leaders and activists when they tried to stage a sit-in outside Parliament House while lawyers and workers of various political parties were arrested across the country. In Peshawar, the government either arrested or placed under house arrest 10 leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the Awami National Party (ANP) and the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI). The arrested PML-N leaders from the NWFP include Iqbal Zafar Jhagra, Pir Sabir Shah, Abdus Subhan Khan and Haji Muhammad Afzal. The arrested ANP leaders are Asfandyar Wali Khan, Bashir Ahmed Bilour and Syed Aqil Shah. The arrested JI leaders are Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Shabbir Ahmed Khan and Dr Iqbal Khalil. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 I'm surprised anyone missed the out-of-circulation lawyers. Seems like good news. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-11-08 12:30 |
| #2 Lawyers, why we're not more sympathetic? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2007-11-08 08:10 |
| #1 Perv's gone from passively rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic to actively tossing the passengers over the side. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-11-08 01:28 |