Tag: Protests

Violent street protests over the gas crisis have created havoc in the twin cities. Residents of the twin cities blocked off the capital’s airport...

Thirty-four representatives of the civil society including nongovernmental organisations, labour organisations, the academia, women’s rights bodies and the media have expressed concern over the...

As the University of Karachi (KU) awarded its students with degrees at the annual convocation 2011 on Saturday, a group of students staged a...

Soldiers beat demonstrators with batons in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday in a second day of clashes that have killed nine people and wounded...

Electricity crisis in Pakistan is a severe challenge for the whole population. Not only regular consumers but industries have been affected resulting in heavy...

Students and faculty of the LCWU on Tuesday protested against protestors who they claimed were trying to disturb the peace of the varsity. Meanwhile...

Punjab People’s Youth Organisation President and Adviser to Prime Minister on Youth Affairs Mian Muhammad Ayub on Tuesday said the PPP-led regime would complete...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s spokesman said Monday the results of contested parliamentary polls will stand despite massive street protests and a probe by...

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Moscow for a second successive day on Tuesday to demand an end to Vladimir Putin’s 12-year...

Activists in Egypt have called two separate demonstrations for Friday, one against the interim military rulers in charge since the country’s February revolution and...

Jamaat-ud-dawa (JD) central leader Amir Hamza announced to convert Punjab University (PU), Government College Lahore, University (GCU) Lahore and Agriculture University Faisalabad (AUF) into...

Pakistan on Saturday condemned overnight air strikes by NATO helicopters on the country's border posts which killed nearly 25 security personnel. NATO helicopters struck three...

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was in Saudi Arabia Wednesday to sign a Gulf plan that will finally end his 33-year rule, a UN...

There are a number of ironies in the discontent exhibited in the Occupy Wall Street movement and similar protests around the developed world. Sure,...

Syrian security forces shot dead at least two people as they opened fire to disperse protesters urging countries to expel Syria's ambassadors on Friday,...

Insaf Students Federation (ISF) staged a protest against non-extension of the deadline for voters’ registration at the Liberty Roundabout on Friday. Students holding banners...

The Punjab Social Security Doctors Association (SSDA) has announced the launch of province-wide protests in case of failure of negotiations with the Punjab Employees’...