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I was reading bbc news section of Urdu and find a very good news comment posting of one writer. He termed the Musharaf speech after imposing emergency as his own critical. I think he is true. The way he was delivering the words were quite immature. The logics given were totally childish as he was running a small cooperative society.

If one fail in governing the state affairs should not simply accuse others of his failure. He was the president of Pakistan when all things happened which he consider were the evils to put the country in emergency. Those evils were created and nourished by his government. The peoples of Pakistan gave him a very pretty time and support to curb the social evils from the society but the Musharaf led Govt was totally unable to move an inch towards the stability.

He still have an oppurtunity to abolish the emergency and keep his promise of conducting an election. It will be in the best interest of the country if he move towards democratic procedure immediately.

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Chief of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf Imran Khan, while hitting hard at General Pervez Musharraf, has said that President Pervez Musharraf has committed treason and should face the death penalty for declaring a state of emergency in the country.
Condemning imposition of emergency in the country, Imran Khan called on the people to resist Musharraf’s move and not to recognise the new chief justice appointed by the military ruler. “Musharraf has committed high treason by negating the orders of the Supreme Court which bars him from taking any unconstitutional steps and by sending in troops after the Supreme Court decision,” Khan said.
He urged the people to resist the “unconstitutional move” and not to recognise the new Chief Justice whom Imran Khan termed as Musharraf aide.  He also called upon the lawyers to boycott the court proceedings and resist this unconstitutional move of General Musharraf.

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 ISLAMABAD, Nov 03 : Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) has been issued here on Saturday as Chief of the Army Staff General Pervez Musharrf has declared emergency rule in the country.

 Full text of the proclamation of emergency declared by Chief of the Army Staff General Pervez Musharraf:
“WHEREAS there is visible ascendancy in the activities of extremists and incidents of terrorist attacks, including suicide bombings, IED explosions, rocket firing and bomb explosions and the banding together of some militant groups have taken such activities to an unprecedented level of violent intensity posing a grave threat to the life and property of the citizens of Pakistan;
WHEREAS there has also been a spate of attacks on State infrastructure and on law enforcement agencies;
WHEREAS some members of the judiciary are working at cross purposes with the executive and legislature in the fight against terrorism and extremism thereby weakening the Government and the nation’s resolve and diluting the efficacy of its actions to control this menace;
WHEREAS there has been increasing interference by some members of the judiciary in government policy, adversely affecting economic growth in particular;
WHEREAS constant interference in executive functions, including but not limited to the control of terrorist activity, economic policy, price controls, downsizing of corporations and urban planning, has weakened the writ of the government; the police force has been completely demoralized and is fast losing its efficacy to fight terrorism and Intelligence Agencies have been thwarted in their activities and prevented from pursuing terrorists;
WHEREAS some hard core militants, extremists, terrorists and suicide bombers, who were arrested and being investigated were ordered to be released. The persons so released have subsequently been involved in heinous terrorist activities, resulting in loss of human life and property. Militants across the country have, thus, been encouraged while law enforcement agencies subdued;
WHEREAS some judges by overstepping the limits of judicial authority have taken over the executive and legislative functions;
WHEREAS the Government is committed to the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law and holds the superior judiciary in high esteem, it is nonetheless of paramount importance that the Honourable Judges confine the scope of their activity to the judicial function and not assume charge of administration;
WHEREAS an important Constitutional institution, the Supreme Judicial Council, has been made entirely irrelevant and non est by a recent order and judges have, thus, made themselves immune from inquiry into their conduct and put themselves beyond accountability;
WHEREAS the humiliating treatment meted to government officials by some members of the judiciary on a routine basis during court proceedings has demoralized the civil bureaucracy and senior government functionaries, to avoid being harassed, prefer inaction;
WHEREAS the law and order situation in the country as well as the economy have been adversely affected and trichotomy of powers eroded;
WHEREAS a situation has thus arisen where the Government of the country cannot be carried on in accordance with the Constitution and as the Constitution provides no solution for this situation, there is no way out except through emergent and extraordinary measures;
AND WHEREAS the situation has been reviewed in meetings with the Prime Minister, Governors of all four Provinces, and with Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Chiefs of the Armed Forces, Vice-Chief of Army Staff and Corps Commanders of the Pakistan Army;
NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the deliberations and decisions of the said meetings, I General Pervez Musharraf, Chief of the Army Staff, proclaim Emergency throughout Pakistan.
2. I hereby order and proclaim that the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan shall remain in abeyance.
3. This Proclamation shall come into force at once.”

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I listen to the speech of Pakistan president Musharf regarding his justification over emergency in the country. He diagnoses the problems well to impose the emergency. he talked about the terrorism and extremism in the country. The law and order was not obeyed by those peoples. Different groups has been involved in violent activities. More over the supreme court was acting as a parallel government in the state. The image of Pakistan was tarnished.

If one agree with all above diagnoses, which can even diagnose by the common people, still there was not a need of Marshal law. President Musharaf is using the word emergency but actually it is Marshal law because the constitution is suspended and the basic rights of the peoples has been restricted.

My simple conclusion is the president diagnoses well but the cure in a shape of marshal law which he is imposing on the country is totally wrong.

I always listen in past Musharaf saying to go to root causes of the problems. Here the problem is he himself. The extremism is at the peak due to his policies, supreme court is running parallel government due to his presidency issue and what more.

I think he should not be desperate in running the country affairs. His advisers are totally silly peoples. I would like to mention the names of advisor too, they are the peoples like Mushahid Hussain, Malik Qayyum, Shujaat Hussain, Pervez elahi and Sher Afghan. The step which Muysharaf has taken is totally unacceptable by the social world. The state affairs should be run by consensus rather than one sided ideas.

The peoples of Pakistan should come out to the roads to declare independency against those few peoples who are running a country in such a poor way. The dictatorship is more  shameful thing than the allegation given by the president.

Now it is a necessity of time to say good bye to this dictators and people should show him with their unity power that there is no need of such a leader in the country who is considering himself above the law.  Peoples power can do a lot like it was done in Ukraine by those country fellows. Take steps and throw out these poeples to start a journey towards a destination which was set by Iqbal (national poet) and Mohammad Ali Jinnah. say yes to democracy and good bye to dictatorship.

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According to Wikipedia A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend certain normal functions of government, may work to alert citizens to alter their normal behaviors, or may order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans. It can also be used as a rationale for suspending civil liberties. Such declarations usually come during a time of natural disaster, during periods of civil unrest or in a situation of war.

Many countries have state of emergency law in their constitution like  Germany, USA, India, spain, China, Hong Kong, Pakistan and many more. More or less the law depicts the same picture as defined above.

Pakistan has just enforced it and now Pakistan is observing a state of emergency. In Pakistan law the emergency can be imposed in such a condition where there is political unrest in the country or any province or part of the country. The emergency can be declared either in the whole country or in a part or province.

If the emergency has declared in the whole country then each part of the country becomes under the federal govt regulations. The federal government is above any law of provices and the provinces have to follow the federal. There must be the justification of emergency.

According to the consttution the emergency can be challenged in the supreme court like it was challenged in 1998 when Pakistani tested the nuclear. At that time the Nawaz Shareef was the prime minister of Pakistan.  The supreme court bench gave verdict in which the emergency was justified but the basic rights of the peoples had to be normal.

In the current situation the government of Pakistan declared the state of emergency not of any above reasons rather it has been declared due to differences with supreme court.

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Benazir Bhutto is coming back to Pakistan again. She has entered the plane but before that she also entered to fly but due to unknown reason she went out. Now she is set to travel to pakistan.

Eitzaz Ahsin the newly elected president of supreme court bar association has been arrested under 3 MPO. He is also the member of national assembly and senior leader of peoples party.

Is this situation allows Benazir to travel to pakistan. I think she will be arrested too when she will reach Pakistan.

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Pakistan armed force has entered the supreme court building and ask the chief justice of Pakistan to leave the building as he has been suspended by the President of Pakistan while 8 member judiciary judge has suspended the emergency order of the government.

The army has asked the judges to vacate the building too. The situation is totally unclear about the judiciary. Due to the suspension of constitution a new PCO has been issued.

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Pakistan president Musharaf has declared the emergency in Pakistan. The transmission of private channels in Pakistan has been suspended and strict security measures has been taken. New PCO has been issued and the 1973 constitution is suspended along with the chief justice of Pakistan.

According to a source the supreme court has suspended the emergency orders and 15 members bench of supreme court judges is inside the supreme court building.

According to latest reports chief justice of Pakistan has been suspended and the army has entered the supreme court building. Chief justice Iftkhar Chaudhry has been asked to move out from the building as he is no longer chief justice.

The emergency was imposed after a high level meeting in Islamabad which was attended by top military officials and govt officials, the meeting was chaired by General Pervez Musharaf.

Now the situation is clear and whole country is under emergency. Rangers and police has been deployed at embassies and foreign commission buildings in the country. One thousand police men have demanded by the federal govt in order to take more security measures.

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Pakistan president General Pervez Musharaf has decided to impose emergency in a fear of Supreme Court ruling on whether he was eligible to run for re-election last month while remaining army chief.

No official report is out yet but General Musharaf is holding a high level meeting with top brass and his coleagues. Sources said consultations on various options started last week after the president’s camp started backing its hunch that the Supreme Court would deliver an adverse verdict in Gen Musharraf’s eligibility case.

Meanwhile the private channels TV transmission has been stopped by the govt which indicates the emergency is going to be imposed with immediate effect. Emergency rule can suspend the constitution and put General Musharaf in a safer side.

For my readers i would like to differentiate between marshal law and emergency. Emergency is a lighter version of marshal law. Marshal law is a bit harder than emergency.

The government official confirmed the emergency and president Musharaf will speak to the nation on television and radio tonight. 

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