Labour Party Chairperson Comrade Nisar Shah Advocate, a leading lawyer is arrested along with dozens of protesting lawyers in Islamabad today during protest demonstration.
Since the imposition of emergency by the military dictator Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) is on streets with other protesting democratic forces. Comrade Nisar Shah had been organizing numbers of protest demos in markets, thoroughfares and on public places of the capital and also in Rawalpindi city against the military rule till the today morning when he was arrested durring the demo. He was severely tortured by the police at the moment of his arrest. He is shifted to unknown place.
There will be a protest against the Emergency Rule in Pakistan outside the Pakistan High Commission, 4 Timbarra Cres, O'Malley ACT 2606 at 10am tomorrow Friday November 9. Protests are also being organised in other
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News from Labour Party Pakistan:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/730/37860
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/730/37861
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Three other party Comrades are still missing after the arrests and we all are searching for them different police stations of the capital to know about their where abouts.
It is third big assault on party comrades since the second coup of General Musharaf., first the Lahore police raided LPP General Secretary Comrade Farooq Tariq’s house two time and misbehave with the inmates in very inhuman manner and still trying to arrest Comrade Farooq who has gone under ground for a while to organize the protest movement of the paty very soon, in second attempt two leading party comrades were arrested from the HRCP office from the meeting of all civil societies organizations. Comrade Khalid Malik and Comrade Azra Shad were arrested two days ago along with Asma Jahangir, I A Rehman and other left wing activists in Lahore and now today in a protest demo in Islamabad Comrade Nisar Shah is arrested.
In Karachi party comrade Shakeel Malik was beaten up by the police when he and other party comrades trying to safe Karachi Press Club General Secretary Najeeb and other journalists from the police torture.
Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) is going to launch joint protest demos all over the country against military rule.
