I thought it might help if I posted a couple of links to Pakistani blogs giving some coverage of the “emergency”. I mentioned Chapati Mystery in an earlier post; there’s also Pakistan Politics, Pakistaniat.com and last but […]

Pakistan’s sacked (twice sacked by Musharraf, if I remember right) Chief Justice Chaudhry has called, according to the BBC, for lawyers and the wider public in Pakistan to rise up to force the restoration of the constitution.

It’s […]

The Pakistani blog Chapati Mystery has a report of today’s protest from Rizwan Quraishi, who’s also posted photos on flickr.

This sums it up quite well.

It’s brilliant to see that lawyers are leading the protests against what Dawn newspaper has called Musharraf’s “second coup” in Pakistan. The confrontation began (as this BBC story explains) earlier this year when Musharraf […]

In the E case their Lordships had no difficulty in agreeing that a curfew of 12 hours a day, combined with noticeably less restrictive conditions than in the JJ case (E lives with his wife […]

My lengthy post on the JJ case explained how the Home Secretary has now been limited to imposing curfews of 16 hours (or less) under her control order regime; I thought I’d better post again though, on the […]

On Wednesday the Lords gave their judgment in the appeals of JJ and others, MB and AF, and E, against the making of control orders against them under the Prevention […]