Tag: Protest

PESHAWAR - Over 10,000 people held an anti-US protest in Peshawar on Sunday, calling for an immediate stop to American drone attacks in the Tribal Areas. Activists from the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) blocked a main road and staged a six-hour sit-in outside the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial assembly.
The demonstrators chanted anti-US slogans and carried banners and placards reading "Death for America", "Stop drone attacks in Pakistan" and "No to American interference in Pakistan". One

PESHAWAR - A large number of tribesmen on Friday staged a rally in Miranshah in a bid to force the US to end drone attacks in the tribal belt.
Chanting slogans against the US, the government and what they called pro-American politicians, the protesters reached the city from the surrounding areas in large processions. They held placards and banners inscribed with their demand for "ending drone attacks" in the Tribal Areas.
Maulvi Gul Behram, Maulana Mohammad Kalim, Haji Azmat

KARACHI - Workers' unions of the Karachi Electric Supply Company's (KESC) have vowed to continue their protest and disrupt operations till 4,000 of their sacked employees are restored.
People's Workers Union Secretary Lateef Mughal told Pakistan Today said that the sudden dismissal of thousands of employees was a criminal act of the KESC management. He said that the management was "wasting" money on high salaries and unproductive expenditures, but on the other hand, had deprived

Lahore - A large number of University of Education (UoE) students staged a protest outside the Punjab Assembly (PA) on Thursday against sacking of UoE IT Director Anwar Rehman Pasha and his wife Shaheen. They demanded officials concerned to take stern action against people who thrashed students during Wednesday's protest, and chanted slogans against Pasha and his wife's termination. Protesters said that IT students are not allowed to enter varsity premises and IT students, including

LAHORE - As many as 1,000 containers of cosmetics and toiletry items have been stuck up at different dry ports in the country due to inflated valuation by Customs authorities. This was revealed by the All Pakistan Cosmetics and Toiletry Importers Association (APCTIA) President Sheikh Wajid Ali, while addressing a press conference at Lahore Press Club.
APCTIA president claimed that Customs Valuation Department (CVD) had dramatically ramped up the valuation on cosmetic and toiletry

LONDON - British students prepared to take to the streets once again Wednesday over cuts to the education budget, this time over plans to scrap grants given to high-school pupils from low-income families. A march and rally were planned in London to coincide with a parliamentary debate on the coalition government's moves to scrap the education maintenance allowance as part of its efforts to slash the budget deficit.
The protest comes after a series of violent student

TUNIS - Thousands of protesters put Tunisia's new government under pressure on Tuesday with activists rejecting the leadership just days after the ouster of the Arab state's former strongman.
Tunisia's largest trade union and other groups have refused to recognise a transitional government that contains eight ministers from the discredited regime of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Key Islamist leader Sadok Chourou, who was imprisoned for 20 years under the old regime, led one

LAHORE - The Tehreek-e-Hurmat-e-Rasool organised a rally at the Nasir Bagh on Sunday to protest against statements of Pope Benedict XVI calling for repeal of the blasphemy laws. The protest began its journey from the Nasir Bagh at 11:30am and concluded at the Punjab Assembly (PA).
Protesters were holding banners and placards and chanted slogans against the Pope's statements. People from all over Punjab joined the protest on motorcycles, cars, buses and foot while members of the

KARACHI - The Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM) Bashir Qureshi group, the biggest nationalist party in Sindh, has condemned the abuse of blasphemy laws; the party would announce a protest after GM Syed's birth anniversary on January 17, JSQM chairman Bashir Khan Qureshi told Pakistan Today on Thursday.
"No murderer should be valorised, and terrorism is not to be condoned under any circumstances," Qureshi said. "Sindh is a land of peace. We neither believe in, nor support, bigotry and

LAHORE - Various religious parties on Friday held protests against statement of Pope Benedict XVI in which he called for repeal of blasphemy laws. Resolutions against the pontiff and federal government were also passed on the occasion. Clerics, in their Friday prayer sermons, termed the statements as unwise and instigating. The Tahafuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat Mahaz (TNRM) and the Sunni Ittehad Council arranged a rally outside the Lahore Press Club. Protesters blocked the road and chanted

PESHAWAR - Police opened fire on a crowd demonstrating against power cuts in Bannu on Tuesday, killing one protester and injuring dozens. Several were arrested as police tear gassed and beat the demonstrators who were chanting slogans against "the mute and incompetent rulers" while demanding the government emancipate the masses from the protracted power load shedding. Police said the protester was killed during exchange of fire, but residents blamed police for the killing.
"One

PESHAWAR - Mutahidda Aman Committee, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) has urged upon the government to take immediate steps against the US drone attacks within the country, which they said were violation of the sovereignty of the state, violation of the international law and human rights.
The NOG's activists Wednesday staged a demonstration, outside the Peshawar Press Club, demanding an end to drone hits.

KARACHI - Small traders threatened to unleash nationwide agitation if the government failed to comply with their demands, including the cancellation of the proposed reformed General Sales Tax (GST).
The members of the All Pakistan Organization of Small Traders and Cottage Industries (APOSTCI) have also vowed to hold a national gathering under the banner of the All Pakistan Traders Convention by the middle of this month to devise a future course of action for the organisation

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) members of the provincial assembly (MPA) staged a protest in the Punjab Assembly's courtyard against petrol price-hike, corruption, electricity and gas load shedding.
The legislators were wearing black arm bands and chanted slogans including, "Stop corruption, reduce petrol prices and end electricity and gas load shedding".
The protest was lead by PML-N MPA Zaeem Qadri while Chaudhry Shahbaz, Allah Rakha, Yasin Sohal, Chaudhry

LAHORE - A handful of failed PU Law College students held a protest on Thursday demanding that aggregate passing marks be decreased from existing 45 percent to 40 percent in addition to introduction of carry-on system in the LLB examinations.
PU Law College Incharge Samee Uzair Khan said that protester's demands fall within ambit of the Board of Studies in Law and the board had rejected both demands in its previous meeting terming them detrimental to standards of legal

NEW DELHI - India, Bangladesh and Peru have opposed the European Union's proposal to give duty free access to Pakistani textiles as a flood relief measure. The countries have informed the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that trade concession was not the right option as it harmed interests of competitors, a government official has said.
A decision regarding EU's proposal to allow duty-free import of 75 items - 64 of them textiles - from Pakistan was deferred at a recent meeting of

LAHORE - Employees of Pakistan Railways (PR) on Wednesday protested against the failure of PR to pay their salaries in three consecutive months, inflation and the cutting of traveling allowance.
Dozens of workers from loco shops, power house and steel shop under the Railway Workers Union leadership staged a demonstration outside Divisional Superintendent (DS) workshops office, threatening to extend the protest if their demands were not taken seriously.
"The ministry is