Tag: Protest

BAKU: Hundreds of people protested in Azerbaijan on Friday for the right to wear Islamic headscarves in schools, challenging the strictly secular regime.
Around 800-1,000 people took part in the demonstration outside the Ministry of Education, far more than Azerbaijan's opposition has mustered in recent years to demand reform in the tightly-controlled former Soviet republic. Twelve people were arrested, police said.
Some Islamic communities in mainly Shi'ite Azerbaijan

TEHRAN: Five students in Iran have been detained after one of several anti-government protests held earlier this week, opposition websites said on Thursday. The Kaleme site reported that around 1,000 students rallied at Tehran's Polytechnic University on Tuesday, an annual "students day" which was marked by several other small demonstrations at various campuses around Iran.
Authorities have cracked down on the opposition, which the government says are "seditionists" backed by

LAHORE: Islami Jamiat Taliba (IJT) convinced the students of Government Islamia College Civil Lines and MAO College that the Punjab Assembly was planning to abolish blasphemy law through a bill on Wednesday and forced them to participate in a protest which was actually against the establishment of Board of Governors (BoG).
Around two dozen teachers of Joint Action Committee (JAC) were arrested after around 400 students and teachers converted Charing Cross into a battle field from

LAHORE: The Kissan Board Pakistan (KBP) has announced a countrywide protest from December 13 against the removal of subsidy on agriculture inputs and other agriculture related issues faced by farmers. KBP Secretary Information Haji Muhammad Ramadan has asked the government to ensure a minimum sugarcane price of Rs 280 per maund.
In addition, he has demanded restoration of subsidy on agricultural inputs and urged the authorities to ensure payment of agriculture produce through

LAHORE: The leading trade and industrial associations in Lahore, on Monday, called for by the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry, staged a noisy sit-in protest outside the Governor's House in protest against discrimination in gas supply to Punjab industry and the reformed General Sales Tax (GST).
Thousands of protesters belonging to various associations and chambers of commerce in Punjab including the Lahore, Sheikhupura Chambers, All Pakistan Anjum-e-Tajiran, Quomi Tajir

KARACHI: Leaders of different religious seminaries have threatened a mass movement against any amendment in the blasphemy law at a press conference in the Wafaq-ul-Madaris Al-Arabia (WMA) office on Sunday.
WMA President Maulana Salimullah Khan said the forum of religious seminaries would be the first to launch a movement for the protection of the blasphemy law. "Islam provides protection to the minorities but does not permit anybody to disrespect the Holy Prophet (pbuh)," he said

LAHORE: Pakistan Student Federation (PSF) Okara division staged a sit-in protest at the door of the Governor of the Punjab at Mall Road against their own Labor Minister Ashraf Khan Sohna.
Members of PSF Okara wing were seen blocking the road by lying down on the street in front of the cars on the main gate of the Governor's house at Mall Road. The protest participants claimed that the Minister of Labor Ashraf Khan Sohna who belongs from the same party (Pakistan people party) had

SRINAGAR: If you ask MC Kash, he's just speaking the truth. But Kashmir's breakout rapper's songs are causing rebellion and could land him in jail. Kash calls himself a rebel who uses sharp rhymes and beats instead of stones or guns to protest India's rule over the mostly Muslim region in the Himalayas.
Kash, 20, whose real name is Roushan Illahi, has won a fan base among Kashmir's youth, whose summer uprising against Indian rule inspired his local hit "I Protest."
The

LAHORE: As a repercussion of the approval of the General Sales Tax by the Senate on Friday, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) took to the streets, resulting in one of the worst traffic jams.
The traffic, bumper to bumper, took at least half an hour to make its way from the Al-Hamra turning at Mall Road, through Egerton Road to cross over to the other side of the protest rally, that encroached itself in the middle of the city's most important artery.
Irate commuters were

LAHORE: With the celebration of Aamir's birthday tragically ending with his burial, members of the hijra community stood united in front of the Lahore Press Club in protest claiming the case was one of police harassment and abuse.
Members of Saathi Foundation, and All Pakistan Eunuch Association, thronged outside the press club demanding that they be heard and addressing government authorities and the Chief Justice to provide them security and protection.
Aarzoo's throat is

KIEV: About 4,000 Ukrainian street traders and other small business owners renewed protests in Kiev on Monday, urging President Viktor Yanukovich to veto a proposed new tax code which they say will destroy their livelihood.
Plans to reform the ex-Soviet republic's notoriously weak tax system have triggered the biggest public protests against Yanukovich's government since his election in February and revitalised a fractured political opposition. The new tax code was passed by

LAHORE: The All Pakistan Minorities Alliance (APMA) staged a protest at the Lahore Press Club on Sunday demanding immediate release of blasphemy accused Aasia Bibi who was awarded a death sentence.
The protesters urged the federal government to suspend discriminatory laws including 295 B/C, which was being used for revengeful activities against minorities.
They said that Aasia was innocent and due to a personal grudge she was trapped in a fake case of blasphemy. Addressing

LAHORE: Traffic remained at a halt at Lahore's major roads due to a protest by the Tahafuz e Namoos e Risalat Muhaz on Monday whom traveled across the road.
Commuters were disturbed by the traffic blockades and found themselves stationary on the city's main arteries for hours at a stretch. Traffic at The Mall, Davis road, Bhatti gate, Jail Road and Ferozepur Road was choked as the rally proceeded towards the CM House.
During the same period, traffic was also choked for more

FAISALABAD: As a result of gas shutdowns, the trade organisations of Faisalabad under the umbrella of Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) have announced a series of hunger strikes, protest rallies, processions and sits-in throughout the city from today (Monday) as thousands of industrial workers are given termination notices causing a large-scale unemployment.
The decision was taken in an extraordinary meting of traders and business community held at FCCI at the

GUJRAT: Nurses in Gujrat staged a peaceful protest on the arrival of the Prime Minister and the Punjab Chief Minister against the harassment of employees at the hands of medical superintendent (MS), Aziz Bhatti Hospital.
The nurses were carrying placards and remained present at the main entrance of the Zameendar College for many hours, but their protest remained unnoticed. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani reached the function through a helicopter.
The nurses said that Dr

QUETTA
Lawyers boycotted court proceedings on Wednesday to protest over the non-recovery of lawyer office bearer Munir Ahmad Mirwani.
The lawyers did not appear before all superior and lower courts in response to a call from the Balochistan Bar Association (BBA) over the non-recovery of Jhalawan Bar Association General Secretary Khuzdar, who was kidnapped by unknown armed people, four months ago.
The lawyers observed strike in Quetta, Sibi, Dera Allahyar, Dera Murad

PARIS
President Nicolas Sarkozy hopes to put his titanic battle to raise France's retirement age behind him this week by signing the measure into law despite a new wave of strikes, rallies and fuel blockades.
With thousands of families heading off for school half-term holidays, and lawmakers expected to give the pensions bill their formal final approval on Wednesday, Sarkozy hopes the mass protest movement will die away.
But, with opinion polls showing the embattled