Tag: Martial

In a case that has gained importance in at least the relevant circles, the military seems to be taking on one of its own...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said there will be no martial law in the country as it can not afford it and...

The Peshawar High Court on Tuesday directed Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani to initiate court martial proceedings against the officials...

The army has decided to court martial Brigadier Ali Khan and four other officers, who were arrested last year for alleged ties with banned...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif on Thursday urged the nation to say no to martial law as Pakistan was not in a...

The Islamabad High Court dismissed on Thursday the habeas corpus petition of three brothers who had been facing a court-martial. Justice Riaz Ahmed Khan of...

Pakistan Navy has initiated court martial proceeding against three serving officers for their alleged negligence in the PNS Mehran terror attack. The officers being...

Departmental action has started as per recommendations of Board of Inquiry (BOI) probing attack on PSN Mehran that had cost life of ten security...

The 5th of July 1977 martial law introduced the cultures of Kalashnikov, drugs, sectarianism and corruption in Pakistan and is the darkest day in...

Information Secretary Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) Women Wing Sindh Ms. Sharmila Faruqui has sought punishment to perpetrators of 5th July 1977 Martial Law as...

District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Rashid Qamar on Wednesday ordered the police and the jail authorities to hand over the two majors and an...

Bahrain lifted martial law on Wednesday in what the government hopes will be a sign to tourists and business of a return to normal,...

Bollywood's 'Girl next door' Genelia D'Souza' went all her way to perfect her turn as a sword-totting warrior in the tri-lingual film 'Urumi', with special classes in martial arts, horse riding and rowing. The actress, who recently represented the film at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, plays a Portuguese girl who falls for an Indian rebel is played by Malayalam star Prithviraj, in the film.
"She spent weeks learning 'Kalaripayattu' and horse riding and rowing so that

MANAMA - Bahrain King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa declared martial law on Tuesday as his government struggled to quell an uprising by the island's Shia majority that has drawn in troops from Saudi Arabia. The three-month state of emergency will hand wholesale power to Bahrain's security forces, stoking sectarian tensions in one of the Gulf's most politically volatile nations.
Disturbances continued to shake the kingdom through the day. A hospital source said two men, one Bahraini

GUJRANWALA - JUI-F leader Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman has said that democracy is at its lowest level in the country as unannounced martial law persists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa while freedom movement in Balochistan and lawlessness in Interior Sindh, Karachi and even in Punjab are on the rise. He was talking to newsmen during his brief visit to the city to inquire after the health of former MNA Qazi Hameed Ullah at his residence.
"A united opposition can strengthen democracy as well as

KARACHI - The law and order situation in Karachi could be improved if martial law-like steps are taken in the city, spiritual leader of the Hurs and PML-F chief Pir Pagara said on Saturday.
"Impose martial law-like steps in Karachi and the situation will improve. The civil administration has failed [in maintaining law and order], and when this happens, the army comes in," he said in his customary style while talking to journalists after meeting with a PML-Q delegation at his

ISLAMABAD: Denying demands from various quarters for mid-term elections, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday said being the protector of the parliament, he would never dissolve the assembly.
"There are two ways of going for mid-term elections... either I dissolve the assembly or martial law is imposed in the country... but none of the two will happen," a Gilani replied to PML-N MNA Hanif Abbasi's point of order criticising the government and demanding mid-term elections.