Tag: Protest

ISLAMABAD - On the call of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, the Rawalpindi Islamabad Union of Journalists (RIUJ) will hold a demonstration today (Monday) in front of the Parliament House to protest against the non-implementation of 7th Wage Award, targeted killing of media persons, non-payment of salaries and illegal retrenchment of workers from newspapers and news channels.
The RIUJ has urged the journalists, media workers and civil society members to participate in the

NICOSIA - Syrian security forces killed 26 people at the funerals on Saturday of protesters killed in and around the southern town of Daraa the previous day, a human rights activist said.
"Police and security services broke up peaceful demonstrations on Saturday by firing live ammunition, causing the death of 26 people," six Syrian rights group said in a joint statement.
The funerals had been held for 17 people gunned down in the southern agricultural town of Daraa,

CAIRO - Thousands of protesters turned their anger on the army on Saturday demanding that Egypt's ruling military council hand power to civilians and pressing for former President Hosni Mubarak to be put on trial.
The army, which has ruled Egypt since Mubarak was forced out of office on February 11, has become a growing target for a hardcore of protesters who say the generals are colluding with remnants of Mubarak's network and thwarting calls for a deeper purge.
"The

KARACHI - Thousands of employees of the Pakistan Railways would stage a sit-in at Garhi Khuda Bux on April 12 in order to demand a bailout package for the Railways so it could emerge from its current crises, sources have informed Pakistan Today.
The members of the Railways Mehnatkash Union (RMU) from across the country would gather at the Shahnawaz Railway Station in Sindh, from where the Railways employees would march towards Garhi Khuda Bux. After offering fateha at the grave

LAHORE - Students of the University of Punjab held a rally against the possible dissolution of the Higher Education Commission on Friday.
Students gathered at Gate No 15 and marched up to the campus underpass holding placards inscribed with slogans against dissolution of HEC. Students, mostly from the Institute of Communication Studies, said that it was quite unfortunate that the government was dissolving HEC.
They said that now fake degrees would prevail everywhere.

FAISALABAD - Hundreds of students and teachers from the Government College University (GCU) Faisalabad protested against the devolution of Pakistan Higher Education Commission (HEC) to the provinces. The students carrying placards and banners were demanding the reversal of the decision which, according to them, is likely to split the whole education system into pieces.
They also threatened to initiate a long march to Islamabad if the decision was not reverted. "This is a wrong

SANAA - Tens of thousands of people pressed opposition demands on Wednesday for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign, a standoff Gulf Arab ambassadors hope to help resolve at talks in neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
The ambassadors, members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, met opposition figures at the Saudi embassy in Sanaa to issue an invitation after Saleh accepted the GCC mediation on Tuesday.
"We only expect something good from our brothers. But it will take time

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - The federal government engaged the Young Doctors Association (YDA) on Tuesday, agreeing to accept their demands in a political move to exploit the situation in Punjab where doctors and provincial authorities have been at loggerheads for over a month now.
The strike announced by the Punjab chapter of the YDA swelled in ranks as senior doctors from Punjab and other provinces also expressed solidarity with them, while the young doctors ended their strike in

KABUL - Hundreds of students gathered Tuesday morning in front of the Kabul University and staged a protest against Quran burning in the United States recently.
"Some students decided yesterday to meet Tuesday morning and stage a demonstration to condemn the Quran burning in the U.S. and since the protest began this morning the number of people, most of them students, increased every minute," a student of Kabul University who declined to be named stated.
However, according

FAISALABAD - Hundreds of teachers and students of the Fatima Jinnah Girls College demonstrated against the killing of Assistant Professor Shagufta who was gunned down by unidentified culprits on March 30 in the Sadar police area.
The protesters demanded the police to arrest the killers. They alleged the police were showing negligence in the case. Earlier, the deceased's father, Rana Riasat, a resident of People's Colony No 1, reported to the Sadar police that the dead body of

AMMAN - Hundreds of Syrians chanted "freedom" as they gathered early on Sunday to receive home wounded protesters in Douma, the Damascus suburb taking the fight closest to President Bashar al-Assad's seat of power.
Some 50 wounded arrived in secret police cars around midnight in Municipality Square, where at least five were killed on Friday when rights activists said security forces fired at protesters demanding political freedoms and an end to graft.
Thousands took to the

DAMASCUS - Thousands of Syrians emerged from prayers to protest in the country's north and south on Friday, in the first rallies since President Bashar al-Assad dashed hopes for greater freedoms. Witnesses in Daraa, one of the main focal points of rising dissent, told AFP that thousands of faithful gathered outside the flashpoint southern town's courthouse after leaving a mosque.
"Death rather than humiliation," and "National Unity," they shouted.Chants were also directed against

MAZAR-E-SHARIF - Eleven people, including three foreign United Nations (UN) workers, five Nepalese UN guards and three protesters, were killed on Friday in an attack on a UN headquarters in northern Afghanistan by demonstrators protesting at the desecration of the Holy Quran by a US pastor, police said.
"Ten (UN) people have been killed by the protesters ... All those killed are foreigners," police spokesman Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai said. A spokesman for the UN mission in Kabul, Don

DAMASCUS - Hundreds of Syrians emerged from prayers on Friday to protest, including in the flashpoint town of Daraa, in the first rallies since President Bashar al-Assad dashed hopes for greater freedoms.
Witnesses in Daraa, a southern town that has been one of the main focal points of rising dissent, said hundreds of faithful gathered after leaving a mosque.
"Death rather than humiliation," and "National Unity," they shouted.
Chants were also directed against Assad,

DAMASCUS - Syria is launching an immediate probe into the deaths of "civilians and troops" in Daraa and Latakia, two cities that have emerged as the focal points of protests, state media reported Thursday.
"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has charged the head of the judges' council with forming a committee to begin an investigation, effective immediately, into the deaths of civilians and troops in the governorates of Daraa and Latakia," read a report on the state-run SANA news

SOHAR - The Omani army has cleared roadblocks erected by people protesting over private sector pay at two roundabouts in the industrial city of Sohar, protesters and military said on Tuesday.
"The military asked us to protest peacefully and to not block the road or damage properties," said Mohammed Ali al-Harrasi, one of several dozen protesters who had moved to the side of a main highway. He said the army had arrested several protesters on Monday evening but had not banned them

JAKARTA - Thousands of Indonesian Muslims rallied peacefully in the Indonesian capital on Sunday to condemn the coalition air strikes in Libya and urge leader Moamer Kadhafi to step down. Protesters from the Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) shouted "Libya! Freedom!" and "Dictator, No! Oppression, No! Murder, No!"
"The people and government of Indonesia should join with Russia, China, Turkey and India to oppose the military invasion by the allies in Libya," PKS leader