Tag: Demand

LAHORE - About 100 activists from different schools of thought staged a protest on Sunday demanding the execution of Raymond Davis. Young protesters from the Pakistan Revolution Movement, Pakistan Ethesab Party and Khaksaar Tehreek Pakistan gathered at the Lahore Press Club and demanded the government banish American spies from Pakistan. The protesters chanted slogans against the US and its discriminatory policies towards the third world countries.
The activists agreed that the

RAWALPINDI - Supporters of a Pakistani police commando charged with murdering a high-profile liberal governor held a rally on Saturday as the court resumed taking statements in the case. At a previous hearing, Malik Mumtaz Qadri was charged with terrorism and the January 4 murder of Punjab governor Salman Taseer.
The killing of Taseer was the most high-profile political assassination in Pakistan since former prime minister Benazir Bhutto died in a gun and suicide attack in

KARACHI - The People's Amn Committee (PAC) might be abolished on MQM's demand and merged with the PPP's Youth Wing, Pakistan Today has learnt. "It was not included in our explicit demands, but it would be better to abolish the PAC since it is a gang of criminals who are involved in extortion and the Sher Shah incident," said MQM Rabita Committee member Waseem Aftab. Sources said that since the PAC is not formally affiliated with the PPP, no official announcement of PAC's abolishment

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

DASKA - The residents of Bambanwala village have demanded the supply of Sui gas.
A beautiful village, Bambanwala, situated at a distance of a few kilometers from the Daska city at Haad BRB, is deprived of the Sui gas facility. Women are suffering a lot and are suffering from eye diseases because of burning wood to cook food.
Bambanwala village has a population of 10,000. Sui gas pipeline is available at a distance of some kilometers from Bambanwala but the MNAs And MPAs of

RABAT - Thousands of protesters gathered in the Moroccan capital on Sunday to demand that King Mohammed give up some of his powers and clamp down on government corruption. Some people in the crowd were waving Tunisian and Egyptian flags in recognition of the popular uprisings that overthrew the two countries' presidents.
A protest organiser said there were more than 5,000 participants while a police officer told Reuters there were fewer than 3,000 people at the protest in Rabat.

HAFIZABAD - The students of Primary School Kot Miran who have to sit on the ground despite the purchase of plastic furniture worth Rs 110 million by the district administration have urged the Punjab government to order the authorities concerned to supply the required furniture and posting of teaching staff at the earliest. Reportedly, there are more than 200 male and female students in the Government Primary School village Kot Miran, Markaz Sukheki.
Only two teachers are teaching

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on Minorities on Saturday passed a unanimous resolution, asking the government in to increase seats for minorities in the National Assembly in accordance with the census of 1998.
Shahbaz Bhatti, minister for minorities, assured the committee that the matter would be taken up at the appropriate level. He also told the committee that a cell in the ministry was being established to monitor the implementation of the five percent

SANAA - Thousands of students and lawyers demanding Yemen's president step down clashed on Monday with baton-wielding riot police and security forces who threw up razor wire to force them out of the centre of the capital Sanaa. An AFP journalist said more than 3,000 protesters marched from Sanaa University towards Al-Tahrir square calling for the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
City streets around the square echoed to chants of "After Mubarak, Ali," referring to the

The medical community decided to protest if any retired professor or a principal of a private medical college will be appointed Vice Chancellor University of Health Sciences in near future. Young Doctors Association (YDA) office bearers demanded Punjab Chief Minister to regard the UHS ordinance 2002 and the principle of seniority cum fitness and appoint a senior and capable Professor from Government sector as UHS Vice Chancellor.

LAHORE - A number of University of Education (UoE) students held a demonstration on Thursday seeking the reinstatement of Dr Anwar Rehman Pasha and his wife Dr Shireen Pasha, who were sacked by the university's vice chancellor Dr Farhat Cheema on corruption allegations a few days ago.
The students demanded that the Punjab governor and UoE Chancellor Latif Khosa terminate the VC, claiming that she had sacked the professors due to personal grudge. They claimed that 38 students

ISLAMABAD - Taking strong exception to the growing US pressure for the release of its citizen Raymond Davis, who was arrested last month in Lahore for killing two Pakistanis, Islamabad has conveyed to Washington that its repeated demands are proving to be counterproductive and are complicating the issue.
Pakistani authorities are highly perturbed that the Obama administration is least bothered about the rising anti-American sentiments in Pakistan, especially the rage after the

LAHORE - The University of Health Sciences is facing administrative irregularities. The policy of the current administration to award top positions to only students of private medical institutions is leading to deterioration of the standard of medical education in Punjab.
This situation of medical colleges has raised concerns amongst members of PMA and YDA. PMA office bearers and Dr Salman Kazmi in association with YDA office bearers demanded Punjab government to terminate

LAHORE - An urgent meeting of central executive committee (CEC) of Medical Lab Technologists Association of Pakistan (MLTAP) was called at the head office in Rawal Dam Colony, Islamabad. The meeting was presided over by central president of MLTAP Technologist Muhammad Ali Malik.
Other members of CEC of MLTAP including Azadar Gillani, Muntazir Naqvi, Tahir Naqqash, M. Arif, Raza Mohayyodin, Shahbaz Hussain in conjunction with student delegates of Rawalpindi Medical College (RMC),

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - The United States on Monday again pressed Pakistan to release Raymond Davis, the American citizen arrested in Lahore last month for killing two Pakistanis, saying Islamabad's refusal to set him free was a sheer violation of international laws.
US Ambassador Cameron Munter called on President Asif Ali Zardari and reiterated his country's demand for the release of Davis, who has been declared as a diplomat by Washington and hence entitled to criminal immunity.