Seminar – The Assassination of the Governor Punjab and the Context of Blasphemy Law. Date: 12th Jan 2011 (Wednesday) Time: 7pm Location: Room G3, Russell Square Building, SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG Note: This event is free and open to all. After the recent barbaric assassination of Salman Taseer, the Governor of Pakistan’s largest province, Punjab – Pakistan is again standing at a crossroad. Salman Taseer’s crime: To show support to Aasia Bibi – a victim of the Blasphemy law. He was in support of efforts to get her pardoned by the President of Pakistan, whilst also supporting/suggested changes in the implementation of the law, which at times has been used for the wrongful victimisation of religious minorities. SOAS Pakistan Society is holding a talk/seminar in the wake of this tragic event and we are honoured to have the following panel. SPEAKERS: Dr. Tahir Kamran Iqbal Chair, University of Cambridge Former Head of History Department, Government College Lahore. He has worked on extremism and terrorism. Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed Jinnah Chair, University of Oxford An academic and prolific writer on security issues in South Asia and politics of the Muslim world. Dr Tahir Wasti PhD in Law, SOAS He worked on Islamic law in his PhD. The development of Islamic law and its application in the Muslim world. Prof. Asad Ali Social Anthropology, Harvard University He covered blasphemy issue in his PhD at Chicago University Title: ‘Adjudicating Muslims: Law, Religion and the State in Colonial India & Post-Colonial Pakistan.’

Contact: Sheharyar Khan (President) 07403167905

Amir Ali Khan (General Secretary) 07888756837 Email: soaspaksoc2010@gmail.com

To: PKPolitics
The Asia Society wants to let you know about an upcoming webcast, Pakistan Under Stress, featuring Hassan Abbas, Bernard Schwartz Fellow – Asia Society, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, journalist/documentary filmmaker, Mary Anne Weaver, foreign correspondent. This event will take place at the Asia Society headquarters in New York, Thursday, October 22, 2009 from 6:30-8:00 p.m., ET (New York).

We hope that you will join us online by visiting our website www.AsiaSociety.org, and following the directions there. The webcast will be available 30 minutes before the program begins. Listeners will also have opportunities to send their questions in to moderator@asiasociety.org, where they will be addressed during the program.

Discuss: What explains the resilience of the Taliban in Afghanistan?

A discussion has started on our website – please feel free to send in your comments and respond to the ongoing debate with the following link:

Discuss: What explains the resilience of the Taliban in Afghanistan

Please also feel free to forward the flyer below to your contacts as well. Please let me know if you have any questions. We look forward to your participation!

Thank you,

Asia Society, NY

Pakistan Under Stress

Featuring:

Hassan Abbas, Bernard Schwartz Fellow, Asia Society and Senior Advisor, Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, journalist/documentary filmmaker, Channel 4 (U.K.); and Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leader

Mary Anne Weaver, foreign correspondent and author of Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan

In recent years, Pakistan has endured tremendous challenges—including militant attacks, high-profile political assassination, suicide bombings, prolonged political instability, and deteriorating law and order—but is the situation as dire as some claim it to be? Join experts for a discussion on these and other pertinent issues.

Dear Visitors,

We owe you an apology for the technical disaster here at PKPolitics over the last 16 hours.

We will provide details of the rollercoaster disaster over the past 16 hours, and also share the arrangements we are making to avoid these outages in the future. We were able to send an update of the events to our premium contributers during the failure, with a link to our alternate video server. However we will continue to ensure that all our members get an update through emails or other means in case we lose communications. PKP might have gone down for a few hours, but it cannot be stopped. Thank you all for your good wishes and confidence in us.

But first things first, we are going to get some sleep. The site should be working normally and please leave a comment under this post if you face any issue and we will resolve that in the evening.

Thanks for your patience,

PKPolitics Team

Dear Visitors,

We had a technical issue last night, due to which we had to temporarily change the look of the site. The site will remain in this format for next 48 hours until we resolve the issues.

We apologize for inconvenience.

PKPolitics Team

Update: All Free Videos for 3rd and 4th February have been added.

Dear Visitors,

We urgently require assistance of a few individuals who can contribute towards a small project related to the Movement for Rule of Law and the upcoming Long March.

Please urgently contact us at ruleoflaw at pkpolitics dot com if you are willing to participate. Details will be provided via email.

Thanks,

PKPolitics Team

To donate to the Palestinian Embassy:

Account Number 22497900126003
Habib Bank Islamabad Branch

Embassy of the State of Palestine,
House No. 486-B, Street No. 9, F-10/2, Islamabad,
Tel: 2291185, Fax: 294703.

Thanks to the Sabbah Blog

*** PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY ***

After the successful email campaign, it’s time to move to the next level: calling some of the war criminals.

Objectives of this campaign are as follows:

1. Bombard their phone/mobile/fax lines with anti-war, anti-Zionist messages. This can be in the form of calls, faxes or even sms’s;
2. Waste the time of these war criminals as much as possible. Some of them are doing nothing else but jumping on the TV screens to spread lies and hatred. They justify killing Palestinian children and civilians;
3. Directly delivering to them the message that we are disgusted by what they are doing and they should stop now;
4. Show them the magnitude of support that Palestinians have after the world witnessed their war crimes in Gaza.

Let’s start with war criminal, Mark Regev, International Media Adviser to the Prime Minister.
His MOBILE number is: +972-5-0620-3264 and his office number is +972-2670-5354
If you like to follow your call/sms with an email, use this one: mark.regev@it.pmo.gov.il

Second war criminal, Shlomo Dror in the Ministry of Defence.
His MOBILE number is +972-5-0629-8148, office number is +972-3697-5339, fax number is +972-2670-5602
As before, if you like to follow it up with an email, use this: mediasar@mod.gov.il

Third war criminal is Major Liebovitz from the Israeli Navy
His MOBILE number is +972-5-781-86248

If you know or come across any mobile number of any Israeli war criminal, please send it to (haitham.sabbah@gmail.com) so that I can update the list here. Meanwhile, you can bombard the top war criminal, Olmert and his office assistance, managers, spokesperson, etc… Please visit the following page to select the name that you like to play with and pick his/her office number and/or fax number.
http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/PM+Office/Contacts/

Note: To call or fax any in the above list, remove the “zero” and add +972 (Israel Int’l code) before the number. (Example: Ehud Olmert’s phone number is 02-670-5555 will become +972-2-670-555, fax number is 02-670-5475 will become +972-2-670-5475)

I suggest that you put your feelings on paper either by drawing or as a letter (in any language, in fact using other than English language will keep them busier and waste more of their time, which we want) and fax it to the maximum fax numbers you find there, but phone calls are still very important if you can.

More? Yes, you can do more. Call or fax the current Knesset members. Go to the following link, select any name and you will find their phone and fax numbers. Again, to call or fax any, remove the “zero” and add +972 before the number. (Example: Benjamin Netanyahu (a.k.a. Bibi the butcher!) phone: 02-6408456 will become +972-2-6408456 and his fax number is 02-6496659 which becomes +972-2-6496659)

Knesset members:
http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mkindex_current_eng.asp?view=0

Also Knesset Directory (add +9722 before the numbers you find here):

http://www.knesset.gov.il/description/eng/eng_directory.htm

To: The Israeli Ministry of Defense, Fax: +972-3-697-6717
To: The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fax +972-2-5303367

Last but not least, share a copy of your fax with others. Please post your fax on this flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/fax-israel/

PS. Feel free to do the same with any and all pro-Israel war on Gaza. You can start with:

White House (although they are busy backing up there files, but we can only hope that Obama will get something to read and learn about on his first day in office) :http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

The Congress (which justed gave Israel new green light to kill kids and women of Gaza): http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Be creative! Search for the contacts of your government official’s website and contact them. Save Gaza!

Remember, Silence is Complicity!

Israeli mobile numbers start with the following codes:

• 9725 Israel-Mobile
• 9726 Israel-Mobile
• 97251 Israel-Mobile
• 97253 Israel-Mobile
• 97255 Israel-Mobile
• 97256 Israel-Mobile
• 97258 Israel-Mobile
• 97252 Israel-Mobile-Cellcom
• 97257 Israel-Mobile-Mirs
• 97254 Israel-Mobile-Partner
• 97250 Israel-Mobile-Pelephone

Source: http://www.nstelcom.com/support/codes_il.htm

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Update: Here is a list of most terrorist Israeli officials. Feel free to bombard them with your words of condemnation and pictures of their war crimes. [Hat tip: Shadia] Just copy the entire list into your TO or CC list and send them all an email

_{Shimon Peres (president@president.gov.il); Ehud Olmert – Prime Minister (eulmert@knesset.gov.il); Ehud Barak – Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of Defense (minister@mod.gov.il); Tzipi Livni – Acting Prime Minister , Minister of Foreign Affairs (zlivni@knesset.gov.il); Abraham Dicter – Minister of Internal Security (adichter@knesset.gov.il); Ariel Atias – Minister of Communications (aatias@knesset.gov.il); Binyamin (Fouad) Ben-Eliezer Minister of National Infrastructure(binyaminb@knesset.gov.il); Eli Aflalo – Minister of Immigrant Absorption (eaflalo@knesset.gov.il); Eliyahu Yishai – Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of Industry, Trade, and Labor (eyishay@knesset.gov.il); Gideon Ezra – Minister of Environmental Protection (gezra@knesset.gov.il); Isaac Herzog – Minister of Welfare and Social Services, Minister of the Diaspora, Society, and Fight Against Antisemitism (iherzog@knesset.gov.il); Jacob Edery – Minister of the Development of the Negev and Gal); (yedri@knesset.gov.il); Meir Sheetrit – Minister of Internal Affairs (mshitrit@knesset.gov.il); Raleb Majadele – Minister of Science, Culture, and Sport (gmagadla@knesset.gov.il); Ruhama Avraham Bal);a – Minister of Tourism (ravraham@knesset.gov.il); Shalom Simhon – Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (ssimhon@knesset.gov.il); Shaul Mofaz – Deputy Prime Minister , Minister of Transportation and Road Safety(shaulm@knesset.gov.il); Ze’ev Boim – Minister of Housing and Construction (zaevb@knesset.gov.il); Haim Ramon – Vice Prime Minister (ChaimR@knesset.gov.il); Rafi Eitan – Minister of Pensioner Affairs – (reitanhantman@knesset.gov.il); Ronnie Bar-On – Minister of Finance (rbaron@knesset.gov.il); Yacov Ben Yizri – Minister of Health (ybenyizri@knesset.gov.il); Yitzhak Cohen – Minister of Religious Services (izchakec@knesset.gov.il); Yuli Tamir – Minister of Education (ytamir@knesset.gov.il); Majalli Whbee – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs (mwahaba@knesset.gov.il); Matan nai – Deputy Minister of Defense – (matanv@knesset.gov.il); Meshulam Nahari – Minister Without Portfolio (mnahari@knesset.gov.il); Benjamin Netanyahu (bnetanyahu@knesset.gov.il); Ehud Olmert – Prime Minister (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Raanan Dinur – Director General Of the Prime Minister’s Office (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Ovad Yehezkel – Government Secretary (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Ya’akov Galanti – Head of Communications Division and Media Adviser to the Prime Minister (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Shalom Tourgeman – Foreign Policy Adviser for Prime Minister (MEDINI@IT.PMO.gov.il); Amnon Ben-Ami – Deputy Director General (amnon.benami@it.pmo.gov.il); Tzahi Gavrieli – Personal Assistant to the Prime Minister (TzahiG@it.pmo.gov.il); Shlomit Barnea Farago – Legal Adviser (legal@pmo.gov.il); Joseph Strauss – Accountant (J.strauss@it.pmo.gov.il);Marit Danon – Director of the Authority for the Advancement of the Status of Women (women@it.pmo.gov.il); Uzi Keren – Adviser to the Prime Minister (Settlement Affairs) (Uzi.Keren@it.pmo.gov.il); Hagar Biran – Advisor to the Prime Minister for Liaison with the Knesset (hagar.biran@it.pmo.gov.il); Ruti Avramovitz – Pub);c affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Ofer Levy – Adviser to the prime minister for official visits and special events (PMO.HEB@it.pmo.gov.il); Yael Nachmias – Head of the Division for policy Implementation (Yael.Nachmias@it.pmo.gov.il); Gavriel Golan – Adviser to the Prime Minister for Planning and Development (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Mark Regev – International Media Adviser to the Prime Minister (Gali.Cohen@it.pmo.gov.il); Rachael Risby-Raz – Diaspora Affairs Adviser (risbyraz@it.pmo.gov.il); Gal Alon – Adviser for Strategic Development (gal.alon@it.pmo.gov.il); Julia Braya – Adviser to the Prime Minister for the Russian Languge Media (pm_eng@pmo.gov.il); Edna Halbani – Director of International Visits – (edna@it.pmo.gov.il); Vered Swid – Adviser to the Prime Minister (Social Affairs) (Vered.Swid@it.pmo.gov.il); Avi Widerman – Adviser to the Prime Minister (aviw@it.pmo.gov.il); David Baker – Senior Foreign Press Coordinator (david.baker@it.pmo.gov.il); Yehiel Nizri – Director of the Prime Minister’s Bureau (Central Region) (yehiel_nizri@walla.co.); Avigdor Liberman (aliberman@knesset.gov.il); Ami Ayalon (aaylon@knesset.gov.il); Amir Peretz (aperetz@knesset.gov.il); Abraham Hirchson(ahirshson@knesset.gov.il); Alex M);ler (am);ler@knesset.gov.il); Amira Dotan (adotan@knesset.gov.il); Amnon Cohen (amncohen@knesset.gov.il); Arieh Eldad (aeldad@knesset.gov.il); Avishay Braverman(abraverman@knesset.gov.il); Avraham Michaeli(amichaeli@knesset.gov.il); Avraham Ravitz(aravitz@knesset.gov.il); Avshalom V);an(av);an@knesset.gov.il); Benyamin Elon(belon@knesset.gov.il); Chaim Amsellem(eamsalem@knesset.gov.il); Chaim Oron(horon@knesset.gov.il); Colette Avital(avitalk@knesset.gov.il); Dalia Itzik(yor@knesset.gov.il); David Azoulay(dazulay@knesset.gov.il); David Rotem(drotem@knesset.gov.il); David Tal(davidt@knesset.gov.il); Dov Khenin(dhanin@knesset.gov.il); Effie Eitam(efye@knesset.gov.il); Eitan Cabel(ecabel@knesset.gov.il); Elhanan Glazer(eglazer@knesset.gov.il); Eliahu Gabbay(egabai@knesset.gov.il); Esterina Tartman(etertman@knesset.gov.il); Gideon Sa’ar(gsaar@knesset.gov.il); ad Erdan(gerdan@knesset.gov.il); Haim Katz(hkatz@knesset.gov.il); Isaac Ben-Israel(itzik@knesset.gov.il); srael Hasson(ahason@knesset.gov.il); Itshac Galantee(ygalanti@knesset.gov.il); Izhak Ziv(yziv@knesset.gov.il); Lia Shemtov(lshemtov@knesset.gov.il); Limor Livnat(llivnat@knesset.gov.il); Marina Solodkin(msolodkin@knesset.gov.il); Mazor Bahyna(mazorb@knesset.gov.il); Meir Porush(mporush@knesset.gov.il); Menahem Ben-Sasson(mbensason@knesset.gov.il); Michael Eitan(meitan@knesset.gov.il); Michael Melchior(melchiorm@knesset.gov.il); Moshe Kahlon(mcachlon@knesset.gov.il); Moshe Gafni(mgafni@knesset.gov.il); Moshe Sharoni(msharoni@knesset.gov.il); Nissan Slomiansky(nslomianski@knesset.gov.il); Nissim Zeev(nzeev@knesset.gov.il); Ophir Pines-Paz(pinespaz@knesset.gov.il); Otniel Schneller(oschneller@knesset.gov.il); Ran Cohen(rancohen@knesset.gov.il); Reuven Rivlin(rrivlin@knesset.gov.il); Robert );atov(r);atov@knesset.gov.il); Ronit Tirosh(rtirosh@knesset.gov.il); Sara Marom Shalev(smarom@knesset.gov.il); Shachiv Shnaan(shanans@knesset.gov.il); Shai Hermesh (shermesh@knesset.gov.il); Shelly Yacimovich (syechimovich@knesset.gov.il); Shlomo (Neguse) Molla (smolla@knesset.gov.il); Shmuel Halpert (shmuelh@knesset.gov.il); van Shalom (sshalom@knesset.gov.il);Sofa Landver (slandver@knesset.gov.il); Stas Misezhnikov (smiseznikov@knesset.gov.il); Tzachi Hanegbi (zhanegbi@knesset.gov.il); Tzvia Greenfield (tzviag@knesset.gov.il); Uri Maklev (umaklev@knesset.gov.il); Uri Yehuda Ariel (uria@knesset.gov.il); Yakov Litzman (ylitzman@knesset.gov.il); Yakov Margi (ymargi@knesset.gov.il); Yisrael Katz (yiskatz@knesset.gov.il); Yitzhak Aharonovitch (iaharon@knesset.gov.il); Yitzhak Levy (ithakl@knesset.gov.il); Yitzhak Vaknin (yvaknin@knesset.gov.il); Yoel Hasson (yhasson@knesset.gov.il); Yohanan Plesner (yohananplesner@knesset.gov.il); Yoram Marciano (ymarziano@knesset.gov.il); Yosef Shagal (yshagal@knesset.gov.il); Yuli Yoel Edelstein (yedelstein@knesset.gov.il); Yuval Steinitz (ysteinitz@knesset.gov.il); Zahava Gal-On (zgalon@knesset.gov.il); Zeev Elkin
(Zelkin@knesset.gov.il); Zevulun Orlev (zorlev@knesset.gov.il);Zvi Hendel (zhendel@knesset.gov.il)}

Please share any Positive or Negative actions taken by the Federal or Provincial Government in order to archive Citizen Governance Watch in order to pass the feedback to relative authorities as well as for future archive.

Dear Visitors,

PKPolitics is delighted to announce that we have completed our First Year online. It has been an extraordinary journey for us as much it has been for our community throughout this year of extraordinary political developments.

Although the project started experimentally in July 2007, our team has decided to celebrate our Birthday on 14th August.

This project started as a personal effort to document the political history of Pakistan through video archives of popular Talk Shows and News Highlights. The project quickly turned into the most active political discussion forum on Pakistani Politics and is now run by a team of members around the globe, all of who were very active contributors on PKPolitics and they support major democratic parties including PPP, PMLN and PTI.

Throughout this first year, we made significant achievements that we did not anticipate at the launch of the PKPolitics. Some of these are:

- PKPolitics brought awareness to masses and made efforts to restore faith in Political and Democratic System that has been traditionally considered dirty and corrupt through decades of brainwashing done by Military Establishment, Anti-Democratic Forces and some criminal public officials.

- PKPolitics enabled the anchors and producers of Talk Shows to get feedback of their programs, which in return enabled us to experience better programs and also sent appreciation to the wonderful job they have been doing in creating awareness.

- PKPolitics enabled common people to physically and financially participate in the process of taking Pakistan towards a civilized nation by coordinating large number of protests around the globe against illegal actions and human rights abuses by the authorities.

- PKPolitics helped in exposing Yellow or “Lifafa” journalists who continue to misguide the nation by sponsorship of anti-democratic forces.

At our first anniversary, we have a few exciting announcements to make for our visitors:

- We are launching Audio versions of all the programs this month that will be available for everyone. Best efforts will be made to put audio versions of popular talk shows as soon as they are recorded.

- The Audio programs will also be available in Podcast format so that they will be automatically downloaded and synced with your iPod or any other Music Player. The Podcast will also be mobile friendly so that people with Internet enabled mobile phones will be able to download and listen to these programs on the move.

- The rates for Premium Membership have been dropped to half. Any members who have paid for longer durations before 1st July 2008 will have remaining membership doubled.

- A special students membership is now available, which will give 50% discount on the new rates. This will be available to students with valid students email addresses. Any students who already applied in the last few days are requested to apply again.

- Free versions of all programs will be put online within few hours and no longer than 24 hours maximum.

- We are working on launching a monthly Magazine, which will be focused on Pakistani Media and will provide feedback to electronic media through the ratings and analysis collected on PKPolitics.

We would like everyone to contribute any suggestions.

Thanks,

PKPolitics Team

Demonstration for Geo TV, opposite UAE embassy, against the decision to close down Geo TV in Dubai.

A large number of UK based organisations will be showing their support on Tuesday 17th June,11:00-13:00.

UAE Embassy
30 Princes Gate,
SW17 1PT
Nearest tube: Knightsbridge (Piccadily line).