Tag: Protest
FCC students protest against govt
A protest was held at liberty roundabout by the teachers and students of Forman Christian College University (FCCU) on Friday. The students protested against...
Minorities’ MPs lodge protest with PM against ministry’s devolution
A group of the parliamentarians from minorities on Friday lodged a protest with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani against the devolution of the Ministry...
Yemen protesters hold rival rallies
Pro- and anti-regime activists held rallies on Friday as loyalists celebrated news that Yemen’s president was out of intensive care in Riyadh after treatment...
India yoga guru hospitalised after 7-day protest fast
Swami Ramdev, India’s most famous yoga guru, was taken to hospital on Friday, his spokesman said, seven days into his fast until death to...
Protest against unannounced power outages
Hundreds of residents of Hameed Pura Colony, Hirabad, Seed Farm Road and the nearby areas held a demonstration against the prolonged power failure caused...
Corruption row, hunger strikes and protests outbreak across India
A Yoga Guru and a Gandhian social activist staged twin hunger strikes Wednesday to demand the government take immediate steps to fight an entrenched...
Hyderabad’s rickshaw drivers threat to protest against ban
After recent announcement of a permanent ban on two stroke rickshaws the drivers have threatened to launch a stern protest in Hyderabad.
More than 20...
PML-N defying set precedents to protest Haideri’s nomination
The appointment of JUI-F’s Abdul Ghafoor Haideri as the Senate opposition leader has triggered a new controversy, as the PML-N is not ready to...
Iran to protest hijab ban on women’s football team
Iran will lodge a formal complaint to the world football body after its women’s team were barred from playing in an Olympic qualifier for...
‘Intense gunfire’ kills 27 at Syrian protest, say activists
Syrian security forces opened fire Friday during one of the largest anti-government protests so far in the 10-week revolt, killing at least 27 people,...
BNP-Awami protest power outages
The Balochistan National Party-Awami staged a protest against daylong power load shedding outside the Quetta Press Club and Quetta Commissioner Office and presented a...
Railway workers protest against DPO
Railway workers held a protest outside the press club and demanded the Pakistan Railways administration withdraw cases against the union office bearers. They alleged...
Journalists protest Salim Shehzad’s murder
Like other parts of the country, journalists of Peshawar on Wednesday staged a protest demonstration and condemned murder of their colleague Syed Salim Shehzad....
Provincial Govt fires 61 more young doctors
Balochistan government has issued orders of suspension of 61 more doctors while the number has reached up to 127 in two days.
Provincial government has...
Baloch students protest against nuclear tests
A large number of activists from Baloch Students Organisation and National Party (NP) carried out a rally on Sunday in Dalbadin town of Chagai...
MA Jinnah traders protest parchis for 2nd consecutive day
a second consecutive day, MA Jinnah Road-based traders blocked the city’s busiest thoroughfare by lighting bonfires to protest the growing menace of bhatta...
Syrianactivists protest as boy ‘killed in custody’
democracy activists in Syria called for fresh protests on Saturday after the alleged torture and killing of a 13-year-old boy by security forces in...
