Tag: Condemns

GUJRANWALA - Gujranwala Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) President Sheikh Sarwat Ikram has condemned continuous drone attacks and termed it major hurdle in the economic growth of the country. While talking to a delegation of local traders, Ikram said Pakistan was being suffered by a so called war on terror imposed on it by America and added that innocent Pakistanis were martyred by Americans for years now. He added that American aggression inside Pakistan was not less than

ISLAMABAD - In a bid to calm down protesting members of parliament (MPs) from the Federal Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) on successive drone attacks in Waziristan, Prime Minister (PM) Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday strongly condemned the drone attacks and termed the attacks a violation of the sovereignty of Pakistan
The PM said such activities were counter-productive to the law enforcement operations against terrorists, miscreants and militants.
Talking to the

LAHORE - Insaf Students Federation (ISF) members took out a rally from the Punjab Assembly till Governor's House against the possible dissolution of Higher Education Commission (HEC) and replacing it with a new institution on Wednesday. The rally was lead by ISF Secretary General Farrukh Habib and Vice President Usman Gujjar.
Protesters also staged a sit-in outside Governor's House, chanted slogans against the federal govt and displayed placards and banners against the possible

LAHORE - Islami Tehreek-e-Talba (ITT) held a protest against the possible devolution of Higher Education Commission (HEC) outside the Lahore Press Club on Monday. ITT leader Ghulam Abbas Siddiqi said that the rulers had attacked HEC for no reason and added that the progress made by HEC was exemplary. The student leader threatened that ITT would hold massive protests and sit-in Islamabad if the government did not withdraw the decision.

UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the desecration of the Holy Quran by pastors of a Baptist Church in Gainesville, Florida and said such actions cannot be condoned by any religion.
He said such actions contradict the efforts of the United Nations and many people around the world to promote tolerance, intercultural understanding and mutual respect between cultures and religions.
Terming this despicable and bigotry act

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has condemned the bomb blast in Lower Dir in which several people lost their lives and many others were injured.
According to a press statement issued on Monday, Hussain expressed his heartfelt condolences and said that the terrorists want to create utter lawlessness and chaos in the country by carrying out such blasts. He said that the terrorists have the wicked plans to harm the national security.
"The brutal and

LAHORE - Senior Advisor to the Punjab CM, Zulfiqar Khosa, on Monday condemned the suicide bombing at the shrine of Sakhi Sarwar in DG Khan.
He said that terrorists were not human beings and no Muslim could do such a brutal act because sufis of the sub-continent had promoted harmony, tolerance and peace in society. Khosa said that the wave of terrorism hit Pakistan in the tenure of a dictator and was still affecting the country.
The Punjab CM's advisor said that terrorism

LAHORE - Condemning the suicide bombing at the shrine of Sakhi Sarwar, Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) Chairman Fazal Karim on Monday announced that the party will observe a "condemnation day" on Friday.
Holding a press conference at the Lahore Press Club, Karim said that terrorists and western powers want to destabilise the country. In the last one month, we have buried eight brailvi clerics killed in Karachi, he said adding that it is a testing time for us.
Karim said that

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Bar Association Monday unanimously carried a resolution against the American attack on Libya under the cloak of protecting life of the Libyans and has demanded that Muslims must immediately act for guarding sovereignty and independence of Libya moving the United Nations and dissociate with this international body if no response comes through it.
The General House of the Bar with President Asghar Ali Gill in the chair, voted for the resolution presented

LAHORE - Punjab Teachers Union (PTU) office-bearers on Sunday condemned the deployment of teachers for non-academic duties including polio campaign and population census. They said that the PTU will boycott teachers' duties during the polio campaign and census.
The office-bearers urged the Punjab government to review its decision in this regard. PTU President Sajjad Akbar Kazmi, along with other PTU office-bearers, said
that how could teachers teach while performing

ISLAMABAD - Jamaat-e-Islami leader Professor Khurshid Ahmad on Saturday criticised the "unjustified increase" in the prices of petroleum products imposed on the people of Pakistan in the name of international price hike.
In a statement, he said ten percent increase in the prices of petroleum and thirteen percent in diesel was totally unjustified.
"In the international market, despite Middle East situation, the oil prices have gone down from $114 per barrel in January 2011 to

KARACHI - Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain on Friday condemned the suicide blast at a bazaar in Darra Adam Khel and said that such attacks are part of a conspiracy to destabilise the country.
He said that blood-thirsty terrorists have been targeting armed forces' installations, mosques, schools and public places and no one is safe from their savagery. "The suicide attack in the bazaar in Darra Adam Khel shows the terrorists' ferociousness and makes it clear that

LAHORE - The Lahore Bar Association (LBA) took out a rally on Friday to condemn the desecration of the Quran by Pastor Terry John. The protestors marched from Aiwan-e-Adl to GPO Chowk, The Mall, where they raised slogans condemning the incident and staged a sit-in. The protestors demanded the government approach the International Court of Justice for Jones's trial and burnt the effigy of the pastor. Earlier the LBA held a general-house meeting headed by LBA President Shahzad Hassan in

KARACHI - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain has condemned the suicide attack on the convoy of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazalur Rehman that claimed several lives. Hussain expressed grief and sorrow over the death of the police personnel and citizens, praying for the early recovery of the wounded. He said that several people had lost their lives a day earlier as well because of a bomb blast on the convoy of Rehman in Swabi, adding that the same thing was repeated in

ISLAMABAD - The United States (US) Embassy in Pakistan strongly condemned Thursday's terrorist attack in Charsadda that killed at least 13 people and wounded many others. "We offer our sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims. Today's atrocity is the second in as many days believed to have targeted the leader of a political party. Yet again, Pakistani citizens and Pakistan's democracy have been viciously attacked by terrorists who have no respect for the norms of

LAHORE - Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Aasma Jahangir condemned the police's torture of Punjab Tenants' Association, young doctors and lady health workers and their arrests. In a statement issued on Thursday, she said that the police 'highhandedness' on the protestors exposed the slogan of good governance in Punjab. She said holding a protest was a basic human right and people could not take to roads when their rights were not protected.
She said that in a

KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke out for the first time Wednesday about the "heart-rending" media accounts of a rogue US army unit accused of deliberately killing civilians for sport.
In his first public reaction to the scandal, Hamid Karzai said he wanted to ensure ordinary Americans knew about an alleged rogue army unit "kill team" accused of murdering Afghan civilians and mutilating their corpses. Karzai said he was disturbed by the accounts in US media of American