Tag: Protest

Two protesters shot dead in Yemen demos

Yemen's security forces and loyalists of embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh shot dead two protesters in separate demonstrations on Monday, medics and witnesses told...

Baghdad protest ban is undemocratic: Sadr

BAGHDAD - Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday blasted a ban on public rallies in the Iraqi capital, saying it was "undemocratic" and based on fear of rising protests.
Iraq's government announced last week demonstrations would be allowed only at three football stadiums, ostensibly because shopkeepers in the city's main Tahrir Square complained of losing trade during weekly protests.
"The government claims democracy, and this is undemocratic," Sadr said in a

Teachers protest for pay raise

LAHORE - Various organizations of teachers community staged a protest demonstration for the demands of pay raise and other benefits, here in front of Press Club on Monday. The protesters were carrying placards and banners were chanting slogans in favour of their demands.
Addressing the gathering Muhammad Nasir and others urged the government's concerned authorities for giving proper benefits to the teachers. They demanded of the government to increase the pay package of the

PML-Q stages protest against Nisar’s ‘politics’

ISLAMABAD - More than 200 activists of PML-Q on Monday staged a protest demonstration outside the Parliament House against Opposition Leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan for creating hurdles in the construction of Saroba and Mujahid bridges in Rawalpindi. The protests were staged over what the PML-Q called political victimisation on part of PML-N leader, as he had stopped construction work on Soraba Bridge and Mujhaid Bridge.
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Protest held against police for protecting murder suspect

LAHORE - Dozens of people held a protest outside the Lahore Press Club on Monday against the Ferozwala Police for allegedly protecting the accused who killed an 18-year-old youth on late Sunday. The angry protesters placed the dead body of victim Muhammad Zubair, son of Nasir Mehmood, in front of the Lahore Press Club and chanted slogans against the role of the Ferozwala Police towards the accused. The protesters also blocked the road and burnt tyres. The protestors, including women

7 killed by Syrian forces as protest movement spreads

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

QU students protest against fee rise

ISLAMABAD - The Quaid-e-Azam University students on Monday boycotted their classes in protest against fee increase and lack of facilities in the hostel.
During their protest, students stopped the university shuttle service. As a result, several students could not reach the university.
The students said that there were no Internet, transportation and water for the students living in the university hostel.
They also demanded that the intervention of political parties in

Hizbut Tahrir activists arrested for trying to hold protest

LAHORE - Police thrashed activists of the outlawed Hizbut Tahrir and arrested around 16 of them in order stop them from holding a protest at Qartaba Chowk on Sunday. A deputy superintendent of police (DSP) and Civil Lines Police Station house officer were also injured when Hizbut Tahrir workers retaliated in order to avoid arrests.
According to details, around 100 activists of the outlawed organisation tried to stage a protest at Qartaba Chowk but heavy police contingents were

PML-N lawyers’ wing meeting marred by protest

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Lawyers' Wing meeting on Saturday was marred by protests by lawyers from Lahore at the Lahore High Court (LHC) Bar Room. PML-N Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Naseer Bhutta was chairing the meeting when a group of lawyers led by Sirajul Islam stood up and came near the roster and started chanting slogans whenever any speaker came to deliver his speech.
The lawyers said that the meeting was being held illegally, as no central

Recipients of BISP aid protest against post office staff

FAISALABAD - Dozens of women recipients of government aid under Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) gathered outside Kanjwani Post Office Samundary to protest against the embezzlement of funds by the post office staff.
Reportedly, they said that they had been coming to the post office daily for many days but the authorities were turning them away on lame excuses to force them to offer bribes to get their money. They added that the post office staff had started deducting Rs

Two burn themselves in Russian bureaucratic protest

MOSCOW - A man burnt himself to death in a Siberian court on Friday, killing a clerk and wounding five people, as another set himself on fire in a clinic, both protesting bureaucratic decisions, a Russian news agency said.
A man in his fifties died after setting himself on fire in the court building in Krasnoyarsk, where a judge was to hear a challenge against a decision to suspend the man's drivers' licence, the RIA-Novosti agency quoted a prosecution spokesman as saying.

Thousands protest in Syria again

DAMASCUS - Pro-democracy protests have erupted again in Syria, a day after President Bashar al-Assad announced a new cabinet in hopes of quelling the growing movement.
Witnesses said thousands of people marched in the southern city of Daraa after Friday prayers, chanting for freedom. The city has become the epicenter of protests which began last month.
On Thursday, President Assad unveiled a new 30-member cabinet and ordered the release of detainees arrested in the last

ANP gets written assurances, postpones protest

KARACHI - Awami National Party (ANP)-Sindh has secured a written assurance from Interior Minister Rehman Malik about the acceptance of their demands and pledges to redress them.
At a meeting between ANP-Sindh President Shahi Syed and Interior Minister Rehman Malik that was held at the Sindh Chief Minister's (CM) House on Thursday, Syed put forward the demands of his party - most of which pertained to development work in Pakhtoon localities. The ANP wants the construction of the

JI women protest against Hijab ban in France

LAHORE - The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) women's wing demonstrated against the ban on wearing hijab in France outside Lahore Press Club on Thursday. JI Women and Family Commission President Samyia Rahel Qazi, Rabyya Tariq, Gulfreen Nawaz, and Shaheena Tariq led the protest. Dozens of veiled women from all walks of life including professionals, housewives and students participated in the protest.
Women carrying JI flags chanted slogans and brandished placards saying "Hijab is our

Ending protest camp, missing people’s relatives call for justice

ISLAMABAD - I miss my father so much and I want him around but it has been ages since I saw him last, said little girl, Mehlab Baloch, with tearful eyes while narrating her ordeal as a kid of one of several missing persons from Balochistan. She was talking to Pakistan Today after a press conference on Wednesday held by the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), a sister organisation of International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons. The news conference had been arranged at the end

PTI to protest against drone attacks

LAHORE - The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announced on Wednesday staging a sit-in in Peshawar to stop the NATO supply line on April 23 and 24.
PTI Central Vice President Ejaz Chaudhary, Secretary Information Umer Sarfaraz Cheema and other office-bearers held a press conference and appealed to the public to participate in the sit-in in large numbers. They said that all PTI organizations including Insaf Students Federation have been motivated in this regard.
They also said

Students display street power again to protest HEC devolution

KARACHI - University students continued their protest on Monday against the devolution of Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the transfer of the Education Ministry to provinces. Hundreds of students of the Dawood College of Engineering and Technology (DCE&T) gathered outside the DCE&T campus near People's Secretariat Roundabout and later marched towards the Numaish Chowrangi, where they staged a sit-in, suspending vehicular traffic for two hours. They chanted slogans against the