correspondent from Pakistan.
The ball now in the Supreme Court, but this is an empty formality. Pakistan's judiciary is ajoke. In reality the clique of five generals govern Pakistan will make the decision.
Labore has always been recognised as one of the scars of culture in Pakistan. The populace is renowned for its love of humour, its coffee houses full DELICE IECHCLIUAIS EA large student population.
DEMAND It was here that the Generals chose to hang three criminals in public. was a sad and humiliating occasion.
Tens of thousands turned out to watch the spectacle. returned home with the feeling that they had watched thing unreal. And yet it was very real.
It was an apt symbol of what the military regime of General Zin ul-Haq stands for: a return to barbarism.
SPECTACLE Why de people come to thes becasions? Out of a morbid because i is a spectacle. perhaps, hur would babeen In most coun tries, including Britain, but it is It is the way to acclimatise people to the idea of constant everyone. All realise that the death sentence, If carried out, will change Pakistani politics for ever, writes a bloodsbed. Death by hanging unnatural. It is part of our life and our religion. That is the wha generals message.
The response death sentence has been sporadic but nationwide.
DEFIANCE As the author of Lahore Diary* in the liberal weekly View point, reported:
WAS A DOODLE! defiance and police repression. and there was tear-gassing and lathi(haton)-charges. red brick again littered the roads, and broken glais from | Most MEANWHILE IN Britain there have been a demonstrations by Pakistani WORETS Brains ine mutan dictatorship. The demonstra tors have taken up and Challenge shree weeks printed Pakistani workers is opposed to the death sontence against At Huddersfield last week, 1156 Tariq All, Editor of Socialist Challenge, spoke to a meeting of 2000 workers and outlined a plan of action military dictatorship.
A meeting organised Socialist Unity in Birmingham shattered windowpanes. Four considered Government buses were burnt."
In other cities protests as well, but given that entire to Bhutto's Bhutto's Party as well as thousands of its pome actress are an proon, These demonstrations limited.
There were student protests and a limited few strikes by factory workers in Lahore, In There Bhutto's honte province Sind, the University and local colleges were closed down after pro-Bhutto demonstrations.
Broken The PPP newspaper, MussaSwat was banned and its printing presses sealed by the military National demonstration in London 7 May last Sunday saw 700 workers of filling the Digbeth Civic Hall. It was chaired by Raghib Ahsan Tariq All. Numerous contributions from the floor stressed Socialist democratic rights.
The masting nationd monster i national Hyde Park in London on 7 May at 2.30pm. The Supreme Court is due to start hearing the case on 6 May.
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E138 E3.42 £2.00 From abroad numerous re quests have arrived from Heads ol State asking for clemency and though not from Saudi Arabia.
But the General has temained firin. Justice will not only be political done. but will be seen to done (presumably a reference cally agree:
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