Tag: Protests

US embassy in India shuts due to risk of protests

The United States embassy in New Delhi was shut on Friday and employees were asked to stay on the compound due to the risk...

Protestors block road traffic in twin cities

Protests against anti-Islam film and blasphemous cartoons continued Friday morning as well in the twin cities where protesters took to the streets and pelted...

US runs TV ads to calm Pakistan tensions

The US government has spent $70,000 to buy airtime on the Pakistani airwaves in hopes of countering fervor around an anti-Islam video created by...

Intelligence reports received over terror threats: Malik

Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday said that Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif should not use the Youm-i-Ishq-i-Rasool for political point-scoring, adding...

15 wounded at film protest: hospital

At least 15 people, including three police officers, were wounded on Friday in clashes at a Peshawar protest against an anti-Islam film made in...

Youm-e-Ishq Rasool (PBUH) being observed across Pakistan

Youm-e-Ishq Rasool (PBUH) is being observed across the country Friday as per announcement of the government in response to a US-made film deemed insulting...

Amid protest rallies, petrol pumps, CNG stations to remain...

People from different walks of life on Thursday held protest demonstrations and took out rallies throughout the district against a blasphemous movie that had...

Can we?

The best way to protest against that American lunatic, who is being constantly supported by the USA and the West under the garb of...

Army, Rangers called in Islamabad as protests turn violent

The Pakistan Army has been summoned to protect the red zone and diplomatic enclave from demonstrators protesting against the anti-Islam film here. Protesters pelted...

Students protest against blasphemous film

Police fired live rounds and tear gas Thursday to break up a crowd of around 1,000 students, many armed with wooden clubs, protesting in...

Anti-Islam film abuse of freedom of expression, says Ban Ki-moon

Secretary General United Nations (UN) Ban Ki-moon has said that anti-Islam filmmaker abused the freedom of expression. Addressing a news conference on Wednesday, Ban Ki-moon...

Minorities to take part in protests

Representatives of various minority communities have said that they will take part in the protests against anti-Islam films on Friday to mark solidarity with...

‘Get out!’

Hundreds of lawyers in the federal capital Islamabad have broken the main gate of the highly secure diplomatic enclave and attempted to reach the...

The film and the protests

There is no doubt that the slanderous movie made by an American is condemnatory. Mobs in streets and roads are chanting slogans while on...

Strike observed in Karachi on JI call

The markets were closed and the traffic was thin on the roads after the Jamat-i-Islamai called a strike here on Wednesday against the killing...

PPP to join protest on Friday: Malik

Interior Minister Rehman Malik has appealed to the United Nations to frame laws to stop publication and circulation of blasphemous material against Islam. Talking...

Fresh protests over anti-Islam film in Pakistan

Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of more than 2,000 protesters trying to reach the US consulate in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday,...