On Nov. 7 at 2 p.m., about 1,000 students of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), the most elite business school in Pakistan, gathered to protest the imposition of virtual martial law by President Pervez Musharraf and the arrests and beatings of many lawyers. The students, mostly children of Pakistan's intelligentsia and middle classes, were horrified to hear that on Nov. 4, the day after Musharraf imposed the rule of emergency on his country, police had broken into a peaceful meeting inside the premises of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and dragged away over 70 of Lahore's best minds, including lawyer and human rights activist Asma Jehangir, and locked them in jail or put them under house arrest. A complete blackout of cable television—the most pervasive medium in Pakistan—radio, and the Urdu press had blocked images from public view, but word spread. The students decided to participate in the protests.
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