Mr. Shabir Ahmad Shah aka Nelson Mandela of Kashmir has been placed under house arrest by the State administration and not allowed to offer his Friday prayers at the local mosque today on 11 March 2011.

Engineer Khawaja Hassan Mehmood Advocate a State Subject and a Belgium National currently visiting his family in his home town at Muzaffarabad has been served with a notice, advising him that the Subject of the State of Jammu and Kashmir has been placed on Exit Control List disabling him from his right to return to Belgium and join his family.

Sharif Brothers have suffered an unlawful exile at the hands of President General (r) Pervez Musharraf and again a recent judgement of the Supreme Court of Pakistan has caused a serious prejudice to their right to take part in the freely expressed politics of the country.

The evidence pointing to the 'preplanned conviction' of Ms. Bhutto, confirms that the civil society in Pakistan has failed to create and defend the big institutional sites of power - the Legislature and the Judiciary in particular. The State coercion of the Judiciary in the Benazir Bhutto's case is a sad attribute to the 'trustees of justice'.