Tag: Hunger

The number of flood-hit people dying due to food shortage and diseases is increasing because there is limited relief response from the government and...

Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani has urged the people to do everything possible to make the world a better place; free of hunger,...

An Afghan female politician called off an 18-day hunger strike on Wednesday and began eating at the request of a senior cleric, ending a...

Islamabad-based businessman Raja Jahangir Akhtar has announced that he will be going on a hunger strike until death starting today in a protest against...

Islamabad-based businessman Raja Jahangir Akhtar, 68, has decided to go on an Anna Hazare style hunger strike in Pakistan against corruption from 12th September. Addressing...

India's parliament was to debate measures to fight rampant corruption on Saturday as the government struggled to end a high-stakes fast by a 74-year-old...

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday slammed a hunger strike campaign by anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare as "totally misconceived" and deliberately confrontational. "The path...

Three children, staging a token hunger strike in front of the Karachi Press Club for the last 35 days for the release of their...

When fruit flies are hungry, they become better in scenting out their next good meal. “As humans, we sometimes forget that feeding behaviour has...

Pope Benedict on Friday said financial trading based on “selfish attitudes” is spreading poverty and hunger and called for more regulation of food commodity...

NEW DELHI - An Indian septuagenarian whose 98-hour hunger strike against corruption ended with big concessions from government said on Sunday he had no idea his campaign would win national support.
"I did not know that this protest would spread throughout the country," said Anna Hazare, a Mahatma Gandhi devotee, a day after his demands for changes to a new anti-graft bill were accepted. Hazare began the hunger strike in New Delhi on Tuesday, winning wide support amid rising

LAHORE - Punjabi Language Movement (PLM) chief Chaudhry Nazeer Kahut along with other Punjabi writers, intellectuals, activists and supporters on Monday went on a hunger strike against what they termed was a 'discriminatory attitude' meted out to the Punjabi language by the establishment.
The hunger strike was staged in connection with the International Mother Language Day in front of the Punjab Assembly in support of the Punjabi language rights. Kahut was joined in the hunger

ISLAMABAD - International anti-poverty agency ActionAid has raised concerns about growing hunger, food insecurity and gender-based violence in Pakistan's flood affected areas.
According to a press release issued on Saturday, ActionAid Pakistan 's country representative Jemal Ahmed said, "Through our close interaction with flood affected communities, we are much concerned about growing incidents of violence against women, including harassment and domestic violence.
Moreover,

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Punjab on Monday decided to observe a hunger strike in front of the Punjab Assembly to protest against inflation, lawlessness and Reformed General sales Tax (RGST) at 3 pm today. This was decided in a meeting held at the Punjab Secretariat of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf with PTI Punjab President Ahsen Rasheed in chair. The meeting was also attended by new party members Nadeem Abbas, Nasir Salim, and Rizwan Ahmed who joined PTI on Monday to