Tag: Protests

Iraq's powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr warned on Saturday he would re-start protests within 72 hours if the nation's leaders failed to vote on...

Thousands on Friday staged protests across Bangladesh against an imminent court hearing on scrapping the state religion of the Muslim-majority nation. Constitutional changes dating back...

Donald Trump Sunday blamed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of instructing his supporters to disrupt Trump rallies, and appeared to threaten to respond in...

Donald Trump cancelled a rally in Chicago Friday in the face of huge protests, which triggered scenes of chaos and prompted his presidential rivals...

Metro closed, exams cancelled, attendance in offices low Faizabad, Naseerabad, Bara Kaho, all entry points sealed, police deployed Following the execution of Mumtaz Qadri early on...

  Uncertainty and chaos gripped the metropolis following the hanging of Mumtaz Qadri, the self-confessed killer of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, on Monday and...

  Pakistan and India on Monday decided to extend visas of stranded citizens by another week to facilitate them to return to their respective countries...

Students, journalists and teachers protested in the Indian capital Tuesday after a student union leader's arrest and subsequent violence by Hindu nationalists. The uproar has...

A court in Bahrain on Monday handed 15-year additional jail sentences to 57 inmates involved in a prison mutiny, a judicial source said. The inmates...

About 100 people gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Monday, not to celebrate those who instigated the revolt there five years ago that overthrew...

Nepal’s police said on Thursday (Jan 21) that they fired on demonstrators, killing three, after fresh violence erupted in the country’s southern plains where...

Police fired warning shots and tear gas Thursday to disperse hundreds of protesters shouting anti-India slogans after the body of a college student with...

Thousands of Shias protested in Pakistan and Indian-held Kashmir on Sunday to condemn Saudi Arabia's execution of a leading Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, as...

  The Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Friday held a protest against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Pakistan. In his address, JI chief Sirajul Haq, who...

  Tribal leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Monday warned the central leadership that they would stage ‘sit-in’ outside parliament if the ruling party...

At least two people were killed and over 100 people, including cops, injured during clashes between Sikh community protestors and police over an alleged...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is preparing for a volley of protests during his visit to the United States. An unlikely alliance of Left-wing activists...