Global Voices Online, the international blog site run out of Harvard’s Berkman Center, has posted a special section on events in Pakistan. Global Voices staff bloggers are posting regularly but, as usual, the great thing about the site is the way it rounds up and posts blog material from around the world. The stuff they’re getting on Musharraf ’s martial law (all “martial” no “law,” as one blogger put it) is mutlimedia and multigenre, from sms dispatches on police actions to artfully satiric illustrations. It’s like a North-African bakery in Paris: all fresh all the time and innovatively “amateur.” It’s all a great supplement to the day-old info available at US newspaper websites.

In addition to information, for example, on why Pakistani lawyers are leading the protests—almost more unimaginable to the American mind than the idea that monks would ever lead a significant protest here—there is plenty on the way the government has shut down the media. It’s all government programming now: police stormed the offices of private television stations, shutting them down and removing equipment; international broadcasts and local phones have reportedly also been blocked.

Image by Pakistan artist and blogger Abro.

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