Pakistan: notes from underground

November 7, 2007 at 7:13 pm (Civil liberties, class, Free Speech, good people, Human rights, Jim D, left, liberation, thuggery, trotskyism)

Farooq Tariq, general secretary of the Labour Party (of) Pakistan (LPP), is in hiding but blogging regularly.

Here’re some extracts from his “fourth day of underground life”:

“On the third day of my underground period, I escaped arrest by seconds. It was all because of inexperience to live in a society that is full of high tech techniques to find a person.

“…Allah Ditta…told me that he has been stopped two times yesterday by police who asked the whereabouts of mine. I got angry with him that why he did not tell me earlier. So I asked him to drive faster and drop me at the first available safe place. In the mean time a police jeep was in front of us. He slowed down…the police jeep tried to come next to us. I asked Allah Dittah (to) drive fast and turn the next road. He did that. The police jeep could not follow us…

“We bought some more sims on anonymous names. I had to arrange a new place to stay. My friends are fantastic. They are all waiting when I call them to stay the night. I am not staying at LPP comrades’s houses as they are already under surveillance…

“Yesterday, in Islamabad, the advocates’ movement was also led by Nisar Shar Advocate who is chairperson of LPP. He was in forefront of the demonstration of advocates in Islamabad alongside with LPP comrades. He is not arrested yet. Although, on 5th November, he just escaped an arrest from a demonstration in Rawalpindi…

“Thanks for some comrades telling me more about the information technology and how to avoid arrest.

“I will try to write every two days all the main happenings of the underground life to share with the comrades in Pakistan and internationally.”

Read more about the LPP , with a link to Farooq’s underground blog, here. 

Hat tips: Stroppy Janine and Faryal Velmi.