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Here is a video supporting the lawyers of Pakistan

Liberating Pakistan: A Test Case for the World Media Liaquat Ali Khan Pakistan offers a superb opportunity for the world media to test whether information can undermine a non-constitutional dictatorship. I am not proposing advocacy journalism that strives to alter viewpoints. Nor am I proposing that the world media incite the people of Pakistan to take arms against the military ruler. The world media must respect the pluralism of governments, political systems, and constitutions. The world media must also allow the people of a nation to solve their problems in their own ways at their own pace. What is at stake in Pakistan, however, is a usurper's willfulness to shut down the channels of information so that the lawlessness of the army rule will not be exposed either to the people of Pakistan or to the world. This design to commit crimes under the cover of information blackout is an unlawful objective that the world media must vow to defeat. Subverting injustice is the duty of a fr...

By Ali Khan Solidarity with Pakistan's Lawyers: If not Now, When? The time is here for the lawyers of the world to show solidarity with the lawyers in Pakistan who are waging a struggle to challenge the lawlessness of an ugly usurper, a power addict, a man in military uniform determined to undermine a Muslim nation that yearns for democracy. From the Lawyers of Pakistan… The lawyers are protesting in the streets of Pakistan because the usurper has suspended the Constitution "in exercise of all powers." The usurper has arrogated to himself the license to "amend the constitution, from time to time, as he deems expedient." When one man can suspend and alter the fundamental constitution of a nation, the abuse of power is unlimited. The lawyers of Pakistan are putting their lives on the line because the usurper has suspended the basic rights of the people of Pakistan. The constitutional right that no person shall be deprived of life or liberty save in acco...