Tag: Protests
Thai protestors fail to stop registration for elections
Anti-government protests in Thailand on Monday failed to hinder candidates signing up for the general elections scheduled on February 2.
A large number of protestors...
PTI sit-in against inflation
A sit-in protest by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is scheduled on Sunday (today) at 12pm at Nasir Bagh Lahore.
According to reports by private news channels,...
Prayers held for Bangladesh Jamaat leader amid protest
Funeral prayers in absentia for Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Qadir Mullah, who was executed for 1971 war crimes, were offered in various cities of...
Rival rallies in Ukraine, clashes feared
Ukraine’s ongoing crisis intensified on Sunday with fear of clashes between the Supporters and opponents of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych during rival protests in...
Thousands of Ukraine protesters mass outside parliament
Thousands of Ukrainians massed outside parliament Tuesday as lawmakers debated a no-confidence motion against the government after its scrapping of a deal with the...
Another Bangladesh party boycotts polls as death toll mounts
Another major Bangladesh political party Tuesday announced a boycott of the upcoming general election, declaring the country was on the “brink of disaster” as...
Haitians protest against government
Thousands of young Haitians demonstrated in several cities demanding that President Michel Martelly step down.
In the capital of Port-au-Prince, demonstrators from multiple neighborhoods converged...
Protests against Rawalpindi incident on 22nd
Following the intelligence agencies; reports, the federal government has decided to keep the security on high alter in the country to avert any untoward...
Clerics urged to restrict protests to worship places
Keeping in view the sensitivity of Rawalpindi incident, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah on Thursday urged clerics to restrict their Friday (today) protests to...
Egyptian students protest enters third day
Thousands of students from Egypt's al Azhar University staged a third day of protests on Monday, security sources said, in one of the boldest...
Churches, missionary schools closed as protests against Peshawar church bombings continue
Protests against the deadly Peshawar church bombing, in which 81 people lost their lives, were held across the country on Monday with the protesters...
Energy vows: Furious crowd attack grid station in Kohat
An angry mob stormed a grid station and broke its main door on Wednesday while protesting against power outages in Kohat.
Local residents attacked the...
Angry mob ransacks Bannu PESCO office
Hundreds of people ransacked the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) office in Bannu and destroyed its record in protest against prolonged power outages in...
Egypt’s Brotherhood stands ground after killings
Thousands of supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood stood their ground outside a Cairo mosque on Sunday a day after at least 72 were gunned...
Nation up in protests over desecration of Bibi Zainab’s (AS) shrine
People across the country took to the streets in thousands against the attack and desecration of the shrine of Hazrat Bibi Zainab (AS) in...
Six held over violence in France after police check veiled woman
Six people were arrested after overnight violence that erupted in a Paris suburb after police checked the identity of a woman wearing a Muslim...
Morsi supporters plan more protests in Egypt
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood called on Saturday for more mass demonstrations in support of ousted President Mohamed Morsi after a huge pro-Morsi march broke up...
