Tag: Condemns

KABUL - Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-e-Islami Party on Sunday condemned suicide attacks, with Hekmatyar's deputy Qutbuddin Helal calling them prohibited and cruel. "Killing civilians is a brutal act and the party sees any kind of attacks that cause civilian deaths against Islamic practices and law," Helal told an Afghan news channel.
"Killing civilians is prohibited. We cannot call it an Islamic act. Suicide attacks in public and civilian locations are not acceptable in Islam at

LAHORE - The Concerned Citizens Society of Pakistan strongly condemns the killing of three Pakistani citizens in Lahore on Friday by a US consulate employee. It is also very unfortunate that the US Ambassador instead of condemning this brutal act of murder has set in motion an effort to claim diplomatic immunity for this person.
We urge the Pakistan government not to succumb to US pressure to release the accused US national. He should be subjected to due process of law. Dr Aafia

LAHORE - People's Labour Bureau (PLB) Punjab has condemned the bombings in Lahore and Karachi on Tuesday. "These acts are a part of a larger conspiracy to destabilize the country. Those who play with innocents were country's enemies, and have nothing to do with Islam and Pakistan," PLB Information Secretary Muhammad Saleem Mughal and Punjab General Secretary Khalid Bukhari said on Wednesday, and also appreciated the police's role.

LAHORE - Tehreek-e-Minhaj ul Quran chief Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has said that the present setup is geared to protect the vested interests of the powerful elite and no one is raising voice against corruption and oppression.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri expressed these views while delivering his keynote speech telephonically from Canada to a concluding session of a two-day meeting of MQI's Majlis-e-Shura in the city here on Sunday. The meeting was attended by over 600 delegates from

LAHORE - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) leaders, lamenting over sufferings of labourers, said on Friday that workers are facing worst conditions and they should continue to fight for their rights. PTI Punjab President Ahsan Rasheed, during an emergency meeting at the party's Punjab Secretariat, said that workers are facing anti-worker policies formed by so-called advocates of workers rights and now the common man is unable to earn even two meals a day, as electricity and gas load

LAHORE - In a meeting of Farmers Associates Pakistan (FAP) board of directors held under the chairmanship of FAP Vice Chairman Syed Hussain Jahania Gardezi, the members expressed strong reservations on the government's decision to levy 3.5 percent withholding tax (WHT) on agriculture produce. FAP Spokesman Dr Mohammad Tariq Bucha blamed members of the bureaucracy for creating such an anomaly totally detrimental to the interest of farmers and the agricultural sector. The government

KABUL - Afghan fuel protesters targeted an Iranian diplomatic mission for a second day on Sunday, as the commerce minister said Tehran had not given any reason for an export clampdown that is choking Afghan oil supplies.
Around 300 people took to the streets in western Herat city, armed with stones and eggs, and marched to the Iranian consulate carrying banners with slogans including "Death to Iran". At a border crossing barely 100 km (62 miles) away nearly 2,000 fuel trunks are

KARACHI - The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) Bashir Qureshi group, the biggest nationalist party in Sindh, has condemned the abuse of blasphemy laws; the party would announce a protest after GM Syed's birth anniversary on January 17, JSQM chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi told Pakistan Today on Thursday.
"No murderer should be valorised, and terrorism is not to be condoned under any circumstances," Qureshi said. "Sindh is a land of peace. We neither believe in, nor support, bigotry and

QUETTA - Kidnapping of Hindus for ransom is creating a sense of insecurity, Balochistan Minister for Minorities and Human Rights Engineer Basant Lal Gulshun said while talking to reporters on Monday.
Basant Lal, a member of Balochistan assembly of Hindu community, said his community was concerned and very disturbed by the kidnapping of a prominent Hindu religious leader Mahraj Ko Sahain Lakhmi Garji from Kalat along with one of his relatives and the government needed to take

KARACHI - The MQM on Sunday condemned attempts to ignite sectarian violence in the city by killing its party activists belonging to the Shia community.
"There is a conspiracy being hatched to create a sectarian strife in the city by killing MQM workers belonging to the Shia community," said MQM Rabita Committee member Wasay Jalil at a press conference at the Khursheed Begum Memorial Hall. Other Rabita Committee members including Kunwar Khalid Yunus, Gulfaraz Khattak, Ashfaq

PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, upon Syed Qalab Hussain's request on Wednesday, prayed for the late governor Punjab Salman Taseer, assassinated by his own security guard Malik Hussain Qadari at Kohsar Market on Tuesday.
A condolence resolution, moved by Saqibullah Chamkani, terming Qadari's act 'extremism', was also passed unanimously.
Only fifteen members were present in the session that started one and a half hour late.
"We condemn this act and we pray

LAHORE - The lawyers' community condemned Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's assassination in strong words and expressed deep shock over increasing intolerance and religious extremism in society. People's Lawyers Forum (PLF) Punjab strongly condemned the unfortunate assassination of Taseer and termed it a cowardly act by enemies of Pakistan and democracy.
PLF Senior Vice President Malik Nasir Awan and Additional General Secretary Rana Sufyan Arshad said that Taseer was a great

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict on Sunday condemned Christmas Day attacks on churches in Nigeria and the Philippines as absurd violence.
The pope, speaking from his window to pilgrims and tourists in St Peter's Square, said he was saddened by the attacks in the two countries as well as by as a suicide attack in Pakistan.
"I want to express my heartfelt sorrow for the victims of these absurd acts of violence and once more repeat an appeal to abandon the path of hate and seek

LONDON - British Junior Foreign Minister Alistair Burt on Saturday condemned the "appalling" suicide bombing attack on a World Food Programme project in Pakistan.
"This appalling attack on innocent refugees is a cruel reminder of the indiscriminate aims of the terrorists and an example of why the world must work together to do all we can to confront a menace without boundaries," Burt said in a brief statement issued by the Foreign Office.
A suicide bomber wearing a burqa,

WASHINGTON: The White House condemned on Sunday WikiLeaks' "reckless and dangerous action" in releasing classified US diplomatic cables, saying it could endanger lives and risk hurting relations with friendly
countries.
US State Department documents released by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks provided candid views of foreign leaders and sensitive information on terrorism and nuclear proliferation, The New York Times reported.
The documents show Saudi donors remain

KARACHI: The Sindh Assembly on Friday unanimously passed a censure resolution against Thursday's attack at the Crime Investigation Department (CID) office in the provincial metropolis.
The censure resolution was jointly tabled by Muttahida Qaumi Movement's deputy parliamentary leader and Sindh Youth Affairs Minister Faisal Sabzwari, Leader of Opposition Jam Madad Ali, National People's Party's Arif Mustafa Jatoi and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid's (PML-Q) Shehryar Maher.
The

LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday branded the ugly riots at his party's headquarters "completely unacceptable" after a student protest over tuition fees turned violent.
Cameron also criticised the "inadequate" police response, saying there had only been a small number of officers deployed to protect the London building housing the Conservative Party's offices when the violence broke out Wednesday.
Fifty people were arrested and bailed after thousands