Tag: Protest

LAHORE - The outlawed Jamaatud Dawa (JD) will hold countrywide protests on Friday against the expected release of US national Raymond Davis, JD leader Ameer Hamza said on Monday. He was addressing a rally at the Qurtaba Chowk. Hamza alleged that Davis is a terrorist who should be hanged for killing innocent Pakistanis.
If the rulers tried to give him immunity, they would face the same face as former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak faced. Participants of the rally chanted slogans

TUNIS - Tunisian security forces fired in the air on Sunday in a vain attempt to disperse tens of thousands of demonstrators in the capital calling for a new interim government, a Reuters witness said. It was the second straight day of mass protests in the North African country's main city, in defiance of a government ban on rallies, after a lull following the popular uprising last month which overthrew President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
After weeks of relative calm, as many as

ABIDJAN - Ivorian security forces fired live bullets and teargas on Saturday to disperse protesters in Abidjan calling for incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo to step down, wounding at least one of them, witnesses said. His rival, Alassane Ouattara, has called for Egypt-style mass protests to oust Gbagbo, who has refused to step down as leader of the world's top cocoa grower after a Nov 28 presidential election that UN-certified results show Ouattara won.
Witnesses said hundreds of

LAHORE - The All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) would hold worldwide rallies today (Friday) to protest against issuance of arrest warrants of former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf. At a press conference, APML spokesman Fawad Chaudhry said that protests would be held in the US, Canada and all major Pakistani cities after Friday prayers and a public meeting would be held in Peshawar.
A Rawalpindi anti-terrorism court issued Musharraf's arrest warrants after a challan was

ISLAMABAD - Nurses in Poly clinic, Handicap hospital and Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) staged a protest demonstration on Tuesday against the termination notice issued to them and demanded regularisation of their services.
A large number of nurses gathered in front of the National Press Club (NPC) to register a protest against what they termed injustice with them by the authorities concerned. They were holding placards inscribed with their demands and chanting

PARIS - France on Monday called on Algeria to allow anti-government protests, inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, to take place freely and without violence. "What is important in our eyes us is that freedom of expression is respected and that the demonstrations are able to take place freely and without violence," foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero told reporters.
France welcomed as a "step in the right direction" the Algerian government's promise of political

ISLAMABAD - Scores of flood affected people from Kot Addu of district Muzaffar Garh continued their hunger strike on the second consecutive day here on Monday seeking issuance of second installment of Watan Cards.
They assembled here outside the National Press Club (NPC) and set up a protest camp to convey their grievances to the authorities. They were chanting anti-government slogans for its 'negligence' towards their plight. They said the delay in the delivery of second

SANAA - Anti-government protesters clashed with police blocking them from marching to Yemen's presidential palace in Sanaa on Sunday, witnesses said. The clashes occurred while President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the main opposition group were preparing for talks that the government hoped would help avert an Egyptian-style revolt in the Arabian Peninsula state.
"The Yemeni people want the fall of the regime," protesters shouted during the demonstration attended by about 1,000

KHARTOUM - A group of women demonstrated in the Sudanese capital on Sunday to demand the release of dozens of protesters arrested last month, as three journalists were detained in a separate rally. Around 25 women, among them mothers of those still in custody since anti-government protests on January 30, stood waiting for hours outside the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) building.
Anti-riot police outnumbered the women, who carried pictures of their loved ones,

LAHORE - All Pakistan Basant Affected Committee's president Mian Muhmmad Azam said that hundreds of people have been slaughtered, thousands being injured, whereas various grit stations were burnt due to the metal wires. He said that the current government does not know the damages of Basant as the Chief Minister Punjab was not in the country during Musharraf's era.
He further said that the cases were never registered against those were involved in the illegal use of fireworks.

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI/LAHORE - Sticking to their guns on the demand of removal of PIA MD Ejaz Haroon, the enraged workers of the national carrier continued their protest on the third consecutive day on Thursday, virtually paralysing flight operations countrywide.
The government sent its trouble-shooter, Interior Minister Rehman Malik to convince the angry PIA workers after its two-member ministerial committee comprising Khursid Shah and Ahmad Mukhtar failed to woo the Joint Action

KARACHI - The residents of coastal areas continued their protest for the second consecutive day on Wednesday against massive deforestation of mangroves. Hundreds of fisherfolk, including women, carrying banners and placards, reached the ICI Flyover to take part in the protest march against mangrove deforestation.
Enraged youth activists chanted slogans for giving protection to their abodes, life and livelihoods. The protesters led by Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) chairperson

FAISALABAD - Poor sanitation, bad smell, boiling gutters and flooding streets forced the residents of Rasoolpura and Mehar Colony to take out rallies against Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) and their elected representatives. Hundreds of protestors blocked the main Jarranwala Road at NFC Chowk, disrupting the two-way traffic by burning tyres and throwing stones on the main road.
The protesters were carrying placards and banners inscribed with anti-WASA and anti-government

LAHORE - Punjab University (PU) Institute of Mycology and Plant Pathology (IMPP) students on Tuesday held a protest and sit-in in front of the Vice Chancellor's Office for over three hours against the varsity administration's failure in getting the institute's degrees accredited from the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and not fulfilling promises made in the last meeting.
Students tried to attack PU VC Dr Mujahid Kamran's office for not considering their degree issues and said

LAHORE - More than 300 men, women and children of Shadewal village staged a protest against Sattukatla police and kept the Shaukat Khanum Chowk blocked for more that three hours on Monday. The protestors carried placards and banners and chanted slogans against Sattukatla police.
They said they were protesting against police brutality wherein the Sattukatla police killed a 22-year-old boy in an alleged encounter late on Sunday. They said one Muhammad Ramzan was shot dead by police

LAHORE - PPP Punjab Senior Minister Raja Riaz Ahmad said on Sunday that Pakistan People's Party provincial ministers would stage a sit-in outside the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday if the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif did not respond to the 19-point agenda presented by the party.
Talking to the reporters, he said the Pakistan People's Party had been trying to point out various issues to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif for the last three years, but not a single

SRINAGAR - Thousands of protesters poured into the streets in restive Indian occupied Kashmir on Saturday after a student was shot dead by the army. The new unrest raised memories of massive anti-India protests that rocked the Muslim-majority region last summer in which at least 114 people were killed, most of them shot by security forces.
Manzoor Ahmad Magray, 21, a student, was killed by Indian troops late Friday in Handwara, 80 kms (50 miles) north of the region's summer