Tag: Protest

LAHORE - A large number of nurses from the Saeeda Waheed College of Nursing and Fatima Memorial Hospital held a protest in front of the Punjab Assembly on Thursday against non-payment of allowance for the past seven months. They chanted slogans against the administration for not releasing the due allowance.
"The administration got an eight-year service bond signed by nurses while it was not paying our allowance for the past seven months," said one of the nurses. The protesters

LAHORE - A widow and a former employee of Queen Marry College (QMC) Lahore along with her family brought the academic activities at the college and the traffic outside the hospital to a halt in a protest against the QMC administration for not giving her pension.
The widow, Nasreen, bedridden because of a disease, worked as a chowkidar in QMC for 32 years before retiring and the college's administration has not paid her pension as yet, despite repeated requests. Abid Ali,

GUJRANWALA - The protest of lessees has forced Gujranwala Development Authority DG Hakim Ali Doultana not to terminate agreements of lease. DCO Barrister Nabil Ahmad Awan had directed the GDA DG to seal all its properties at GDA Plaza by terminating all lease agreements and relocate new agreements in accordance with the Local Government Act 2007.
Though the GDA issued notices to all the lessees to vacate the shops and offices till January 31, but they started agitation, forcing

CAIRO - There is no money at the banks. Fuel is scarce. Tourism is evaporating. As a popular uprising to oust President Hosni Mubark enters its second week, Egyptians are feeling the economic pinch. Banks have been shut since Sunday, and they remained so on Tuesday, the day that protesters hope will see a million-strong demonstration in Cairo to demand an end to Mubarak's regime.
Many automatic teller machines (ATM) in the teeming capital have run out of cash, and those still

KHARTOUM - As street protests sweep Egypt, neighbouring Sudan watches nervously, faced with its own political and economic malaise, opposition calls for popular uprisings and the likely secession of the south. Around 10,000 people have so far joined a Facebook group calling for anti-government protests across Sudan on Sunday, the day preliminary results are due out for the vote on southern independence that is widely expected to split the country in half.
The call coincides with

LAHORE - Two protests were held by different sections of the Pakistan Railways (PR) on Saturday. The PR Workers' Union held their protest at the Railway Station. Around 250 to 300 people participated in the protest. Union General Secretary Zafar Ijaz Malik said that downsizing of the PR be stopped immediately and number of officers lessened.
"Problems are happening because there are too many higher officials and they are being paid too much for not doing anything. For this reason

LAHORE - A large number of Punjab University (PU) students and the Academic Staff Association (ASA) on Friday organised an anti-US rally against killing of three citizens by an American national Raymond Davis. Protestors said that they were annoyed on death of Pakistanis and demanded death sentence for Davis while they also chanted anti-US slogans.
After Friday prayers, a large number of students and teachers started gathering in front of the PU Mosque, as PUASA President Dr

LAHORE - The Pakistan Railways Workers' Union (PRWU) has scheduled a protest for today against downsizing. PRWU General Secretary Zafar Ijaz Malik told Pakistan Today that their protest will take place at about 11:30 am at the main Railway Station, but another protest by a different union will also be held at the Lahore Press Club later in the afternoon.
"Gradually the problems have led to the workers' unions rising," said Malik. He said the protests will be held all over

CAIRO - Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets of Sanaa on Thursday to demand a change of government, inspired by the unrest that has ousted Tunisia's leader and spread to Egypt this week. Reuters witnesses estimated that around 16,000 Yemenis demonstrated in four parts of Sanaa in the largest rally since a wave of protests rocked Yemen last week, and protesters vowed to escalate the unrest unless their demands were met.
Meanwhile, Egyptian police fought protesters in two

LAHORE - Traders of Hall Road and adjacent markets blocked the Mall Road on Thursday and demanded the Punjab government take action against increasing robberies in the area and accused police officials of not taking action and patronising robbers.
Traders from the Zaitoon Plaza, Rafi Plaza and other markets blocked the road at the Regal Chowk and chanted slogans against police for deliberately not taking action against robbers and swindlers. Traders said that for the last five

FAISALABAD - The parents of the DPS students staged a protest rally against the decision of the oldest private school of Faisalabad Divisional Public School (DPS), announcing 22 percent increase in the fees.
After the protest, DPS Principal Shahid Mahmood and DMC Principal Saleem Raza held dialogues with the parents but the session ended without any outcome as both the sides stuck to their guns. The aggrieved parents' group announced another protest rally on Friday (today) at

ISLAMABAD - The relatives of 350 prisoners including 16 women in different jails of China staged a protest demonstration in support of the release of their dear ones on Wednesday. They demanded the government bring the jailed Pakistanis back to the country for trials under the Geneva Accord.
Wajahat Ali, who had been fighting to get his brother released for the last four years, said that Pakistan had inked an agreement with China in December 2007 for the repartition of the

LAHORE - Pakistan Railways (PR) employees on Wednesday brought out a rally from Railway Headquarter to Divisional Superintendent (DS) Lahore office to protest against the proposed downsizing and privatization of the department and blocked Allama Iqbal Road for some time by burning tyres.
The protesters chanted slogans against the railway administration and pledged that they will not let any body to privatize Pakistan Railways. They demanded of the government not to privatize the

TUNIS - Protesters pressured Tunisia's new interim government to quit on Tuesday in the wake of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's ouster, as the cabinet prepared a major shake-up and a top US envoy visited.
Hundreds of protesters from impoverished regions in central Tunisia chanted anti-government slogans in front of Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi's offices for a third day, saying they would not leave until the cabinet resigns. The new government has announced unprecedented

PESHAWAR - Lawyers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa observed complete strike on Monday on the call of the Peshawar High Court Bar Association (PHCBA) that announced lawyers' strike on one day a week till the safe recovery of the abducted lawyers.
They said if their abducted colleagues, Zain Khan Khalil and Bashir Khan were not recovered safely, the government would be responsible for the consequences. Senior lawyers Zain Khan Khalil was kidnapped from Peshawar on September 30, 2010 while

ATHENS - Six out of nine Greeks accused of terror offences made a bid for freedom on Monday as they were waiting to be returned to their cells after refusing to attend their trial, the ANA news agency reported.
Dozens of supporters of the defendants also clashed with plain-clothes officers in the courtroom and police reinforcements were called in to restore order, a judicial source said. The nine and four others who are still at large and being tried in absentia are accused of

TIRANA - Albania's opposition marked a day of mourning on Sunday to attend the burials of two of the three people killed in anti-government protests amid heightened tension in the country.
Hundreds of people including opposition leader Edi Rama and other socialist lawmakers gathered in the south of the country to bury 48-year-old Ziver Veizi. Veizi was one of the three people killed when anti-government protesters clashed with police in Tirana on Friday.
"We were there to