Tag: Protests

Syrian forces killed at least 70 protesters on Friday, activists said, in one of the bloodiest days since the start of an 11-week revolt...

The split in the opposition’s ranks came to the surface on Friday when the JUI-F, PPP-Sherpao and PML-Q Likeminded distanced themselves from the PML-N...

Pakistan lodged a strong protest with Afghanistan on Thursday on a cross-border terrorist attack inside its territory by around 400 militants that killed at...

Dozens of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Youth Wing activists staged a protest outside the Lahore Press Club on Thursday against the detention of Moonis...

Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam lodged a formal protest against his FIFA suspension here Wednesday, complaining he had been given no chance to...

Madrid's Puerta del Sol square, the centre of nationwide protests against mass unemployment, boiled with political passion, gawkers and families on Sunday while Spaniards...

Syrian security forces shot dead at least 17 people, including a child, as pro-democracy protests swept the country on Friday after weekly prayers, with...

The legal fraternity has expressed serious reservations over the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP)-led government’s protests against the Lahore High Court (LHC)’s verdict in PPP...

Yemeni security forces killed two protesters and wounded dozens on Wednesday as mass rallies demanding the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh paralysed two...

India said Wednesday it had lodged a complaint with the Australian government over swimwear carrying the image of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi that has...

Clashes erupted in Algeria Monday between security forces and hundreds of students demanding political change, leaving at least nine people injured, including three policemen,...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday it had collected the names of at least 453 civilians killed during almost six weeks...

At least another six people were shot and wounded in Yemen on Tuesday as troops moved to quell demonstrations demanding the immediate ouster of...

ISLAMABAD - After the over a month-long strike of young doctors that had crippled the working at hospitals across Punjab and the federal capital, Pakistan Pharmacist Association (PPA) has also warned the government of launching the protest in a similar fashion if their demand for a better service structure is not approved. The PPA members have rejected the Health Ministry's proposal revising the service structure while demanding that they should be given the same perks and privileges

SANAA - Yemen's opposition called for mass protests Wednesday after deadly clashes with police, while talks seemed stalled between Gulf mediators and representatives of embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Members of the UN Security Council also failed to come up with a joint statement on Yemen after adding the Arabian Peninsula country's crisis to their agenda for the first time. Youth groups called for nationwide marches by millions of people in protest at the killing of

CAIRO - Hundreds of Egyptians on Monday protested against the appointment of a Christian governor in the southern city of Qena, as officials scrambled to end the four-day crisis, security officials said. Protests first kicked off on Friday after Emad Mikhail was appointed governor of Qena which has a large Coptic Christian population and a history of sectarian strife.
Interior Minister Mansur Essawy, who made an impromptu visit to the southern province late on Sunday, failed to