13 Jan, 2008

Today, Justice Bhagwandas was placed…

13 Jan, 2008

Today, Justice Bhagwandas was placed under house arrest in Karachi — read more in Teeth Maestro. And yesterday, shortly before a lawyers’ rally was scheduled to take place in Lahore, there was another suicide bombing, and more than 30 police officers were killed. At the Women’s Action Forum conference earlier today, we were again reminded of the 1,000 FIRs put out against PPP activists, and hundreds of arrests have already begun all over Sindh. It’s hard to say too much these days. You don’t know what’s going to happen next, and no one can predict how far Musharraf will push the judiciary crisis, or what lengths he will go to in order to prevent elections from taking place.

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