(((I hope they have better luck than the Burmese bloggers.)))
Link: The Telegraph - Calcutta : International.
New Delhi, Nov. 5: This is one battle that President Pervez Musharraf was not prepared for.
Armed with BlackBerrys, laptops, mobile phones and the Internet, human rights activists and ordinary citizens have found a way to fight the President’s draconian rule.
From rights activist Asma Jahangir’s emailed statement, where she has severely criticised Musharraf, to senior supreme court advocate Aitzaz Ahsan, who coordinated protests by lawyers in Pakistan today from the toilet of a police station, cyber protesters are defying all rules of censorship.
War-time strategy is being planned quietly, away from the prying eyes of Musharraf’s men on social networking sites such as Facebook and Orkut.
In an effort to outsmart the President, tech-savvy Pakistanis are posting details such as “meet closer to Press Club… then walk together to the Press Club in groups of 4”.
“A number of bloggers are stepping out of their cosy homes and terminals to match their thoughts with actual deeds in terms of political activism,” said T, an active blogger....
