Tag: Movement

With the wheat and flour prices showing an upward trend during the past couple of days, the provincial government on Saturday imposed a ban...

Morocco’s youth-based February 20 Movement on Saturday rejected constitutional reforms proposed by King Mohammed VI, calling for nationwide protests. “The plan as proposed by...

Islamabad High Court (IHC) has demanded a reply from Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan over breach of court’s orders to keep his movements restricted. According to...

The government on Thursday decided to regularise the movement of foreigners and any foreigner or diplomat will be sent back to his duty station...

Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Secretary Qamar Zaman Qureshi announced on Tuesday to launch the Pakistan Zindabad Movement to create awareness among masses about...

After the killing of the world’s most wanted person, al Qaeda chief Osama bin Ladin, the Sindh government is set to start a mass...

DAMASCUS - At least seven people were killed when Syrian security forces fired into a crowd in the flashpoint town of Homs, as nationwide protests showed no sign of abating, rights activists said on Monday. The deaths occurred when security forces opened fire with live rounds late Sunday to disperse demonstrators in the Bab Sba'a area of the town, 160 kilometres (100 miles) to the north of Damascus, witnesses said.
Two activists, who declined to be identified, spoke of seven

KARACHI - All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) chief General (retd) Pervez Musharraf called Pakistan Muslim League Functional (PML-F) chief Pir Pagaro on phone from London, urging him to lead the nation and play his active role against the incumbent government.
Sources told Pakistan Today that Musharraf requested Pir Pagara to step forward against the government's bad governance. If Pagaro would lead the movement, the APML will fully support him, Musharraf said. A day earlier, on

ISLAMABAD - Hard-core religious parties of the country on Wednesday said they were mulling to launch a movement against what they called a "surprise release" of the US national Raymond Davis, who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore in January.
In reaction to the development, Sahibzada Abul Khair Muhammad Zubair, head both of Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan and Tahaffaz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat Mahaz, said the circumstances prove that the heirs of those killed by the US national were pressured to

KARACHI - Karachi University Teachers Society (KUTS) President Abid Hasnain on Thursday wrote a letter to Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan - also the KU Chancellor - apprising him about legal irregularities in the university's system as the KU Syndicate has been working without any representation from the varsity senate and that memberships of six syndicate members have expired. The teachers of University of Karachi (KU) have pit themselves against the administration and warned of

LAHORE - Doctors have announced a nationwide movement to demand a special salary raise for all doctors working in government hospitals in the country, Pakistan Medical Association office bearers said in a press conference at the PMA House on Monday.
Various organizations including PMA, YDA, PDA and MTA have been taken into confidence and first phase in which posters and pamphlets were to be distributed has already been accomplished, they said, adding that a provincial convention

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

LAHORE - The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) on Monday announced to launch a countrywide movement for demands of a "Special Salary Package for Doctors and Regular Service Structure with Time Scale Promotions" and a combined meeting of all doctors' organisations working in all provinces would be called at the PMA House soon in which final decisions regarding the protest and strike of doctors would be taken.
PMA office bearers Dr Ashraf Nizami, Dr Akhtar Rashid, Dr Tanveer

LAHORE - The Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) on Thursday appreciated the PM's move for approving the summary of not amending the blasphemy law and announced calling of its Namoos-e-Risalat Movement. In a joint declaration, SIC leaders Fazal Karim, Riaz Shah, Ijaz Qadri, Afzal Qadri, Mahfouz Mashadi, Nawaz Kharal and Ajmal Gilani said that they would celebrate today (Friday) as "thanksgiving day".
The Namoos-e-Risalat Movement started after slain Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer visited

LAHORE - Former information minister Muhammad Ali Durrani called on the Jamiat Ulema Pakistan (JUP) Secretary General Qari Zawar Bahadur in his office and asked to support the Bahawalpur's movement as a separate province.
Zawar announced to support the movement for the establishment of further provinces in order to improve administrative matters and to facilitate people. He said that the restoration of Bahawalpur's status as a province was a part of their manifesto.
He also

KARACHI - The Sindh National Front (SNF) will back the demands of the Hazarewal for a separate province for their people, SNF chief Mumtaz Bhutto said on Saturday after a meeting with a delegation representing the Hazara Qaumi Jirga.
Members of the delegation apprised Bhutto about their movement as well as alleged injustices against the Hazarewal people. Any group with a distinct language, culture and shared history is a 'nation' that deserves a separate province, the SNF chief

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has approved provision of free medical treatment facility to gold medalist workers of the Pakistan Movement and their families in all government-sector hospitals of the province. Complying with the CM's orders, Punjab Health Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad issued a notification in this regard on Saturday. The Punjab Health Department issued written instructions to all principals of autonomous institutions and medical superintendents of