Tag: Rally

CAIRO - Tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square Friday, issuing calls to "save the revolution" that ousted president Hosni Mubarak and to rid of the country of the old regime.
The Youth Coalition Movement, an umbrella grouping those who launched the uprising against Mubarak, called this week for a new demonstration to demand judgement of the corrupt and those who fired live rounds on protesters. The young pro-democracy activists also want the country's

LONDON - World oil prices rose sharply Thursday as trader sentiment was jarred by simmering geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and North Africa, particularly in Libya and Syria.
In London midday trade, Brent North Sea crude for delivery in May added $1.07 to $116.20 a barrel.
New York's main contract, light sweet crude for May, won 99 cents to $105.26.
"Crude oil prices rebounded strongly amid ongoing political unrest across Middle East that continue to raise

LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Munawar Hasan and JI Secretary General Liaquat Baloch strongly condemned the bomb blast in a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) rally in Sawabi welcoming the JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday.
In a joint statement here, the JI leaders said that the federal and provincial governments had completely failed to protect the life and property of the people. They said such subversive activities would continue as long as the Central

SAHIWAL - The local Christian community took out a protest rally against Pastor Terry Jones to express solidarity with Muslims. The rally started from Main Church, Karbla Road, passing through the main bazaars, concluded at Jinnah Chowk where Christian leaders addressed the protesters.
They condemned the act of Terry Jones. They said the Pakistan government should take notice of it.
DCO FOR MODERNISING AGRICULTURE: DCO Waqas Ali Mahmood has said that development and

ISLAMABAD - The Punjab government has refused to grant permission to the MQM to organise a public rally at Minar-e-Pakistan on April 10 due to security reasons. Security agencies had submitted the report to the provincial government that MQM's public rally at Minar-e-Pakistan might be targeted by terrorists.
Keeping in view the report of the Home Department, the government of Punjab declined MQM's request. When contacted, MQM leader and Rabita Committee member Wasih Jalil told

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) on Friday took out a rally to condemn the desecration of the Quran by Pastor Terry Jones. The protestors marched from the LHCBA to the Mall at GPO Chowk, where they raised slogans condemning the incident. Earlier the bar held a meeting in which they decided to take out this rally. In the general house meeting, they demanded the government approach the International Court of Justice for Jones's trial.
They demanded that Jones

KASUR - Hundreds of people took out a rally against unscheduled load shedding in Kasur and reduced millions of rupees vans, motorcycles and other valuables to ashes. Reportedly, a rally of power loom workers and local residents that started from Kot Murad Khan, reached the WAPDA office where other angry people also joined it. The protesters chanted slogans against the WAPDA and said their business had been closed due to the load shedding, due to which, they were unable to feed their

LAHORE - All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) staged a rally on Wednesday to mark Pakistan Day (March 23). APML central leader Fawad Chaudhry led the rally that started from Gulberg, passed The Mall, Bhatti Chowk and Minar-e-Pakistan culminated at the Iqbal mausoleum. The rally was attended by APML members who carried Pakistan flags and portraits of APML President Pervez Musharraf.
Addressing the rally at Iqbal mausoleum Fawad Chaudhry said the PPP and PML-N's manufactured democracy

LAHORE - National Highways and Motorway Police celebrated Pakistan Day by organizing Motorway Police Solidarity Bikers Rally and making special arrangements and holding special ceremonies at the Guidance Center Lahore, Training Institute Sheikhupura and on all the national highways and motorways.
A "23rd March 2011 Motorway Police Heavy Bike Solidarity Rally" from Lahore to Bhera, Faisalabad to Bhera and Islamabad to Bhera was organized under the supervision of Motorway IG Dr

PESHAWAR - Tribesmen and students from various organisations on Saturday staged demonstrations here, endorsing the decision of a war on the United States to protest the US drone attack on a traditional jirga in the Data Khel area of North Waziristan. Students from different educational institutions staged demonstrations in front of Peshawar Press Club. They were followed by elders from North Waziristan. They also chanted slogans against the US and Pakistani authorities.
Tribal

LAHORE - The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) organised a motorcycle rally against US national Raymond Davis, corruption and inflation at Township on Monday. PTI UC-138 President Arif Mehmood Koku led the rally. Participants of the rally chanted slogans against the US and the Punjab government. They said that corruption and inflation have crushed the people but rulers are busy in saving themselves.

KARACHI - An anti-People's Amn Committee rally organised by Lyari's Kachchi Rabita Council (KRC) was prevented from reaching Bilawal House by Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza on Sunday, following marathon negotiations and promises of the deployment of a police officer with a "good reputation" in Lyari.
KRC had announced a march and sit-in outside Bilawal House to protest what they claimed were Amn Committee-backed killings of Kachchi youth and extortions in the area. A large

BEIRUT - Tens of thousands of Lebanese opposition supporters on Sunday demanded Hezbollah be disarmed as they rallied to mark the sixth anniversary of a popular uprising against Syrian troops in the country. "The people want the fall of arms," the demonstrators chanted as they poured into to Martyrs' Square in central Beirut amid tight security, waving the national flag and the banners of pro-Western political parties.
"We are here to say yes to life and no to their arms," said

BAKU - Azerbaijan police detained more than 30 activists of the opposition Musavat Party when its members took to the street of Baku on Saturday to protest against the ruling elite following a similar rally a day before.
Azerbaijan, an energy supplier to Europe and a transit route for US troops in Afghanistan, has been ruled by one family for nearly two decades since Soviet veteran Heydar Aliyev came to power in 1993. He was succeeded by his son Ilham in 2003.
About 200

LAHORE - An awareness walk was organised in collaboration with Allama Iqbal Medical College (AIMC), the Women's Chamber of Commerce and the World Heart Federation on Friday to increase awareness about heart diseases among women. All participants wore red clothes and tied red ribbons as part of the "Go Red for Women" campaign. The three-day event started with a seminar at a local club while free consultation and tests were provided the next day.
AIMC Principal Dr Javed Akram said

ALGIERS - Thousands of community policemen rallied in Algeria on Monday to demand a pay raise, breaking through heavy security to reach parliament in a rare mass show of dissent in the tightly controlled country. The protesters, estimated by organisers to number more than 10,000, braved a ban on demonstrations in the capital and pushed through several police cordons to move from Martyrs Square to the National Assembly.
They were quickly surrounded by regular police despatched to

RABAT - A few hundred people, mainly youths, attended a quickly improvised pro-democracy rally in front of the Moroccan parliament on Sunday, calling for the rule of law and radical political reform. The demonstration, called on social networking site Facebook, was backed by human rights activists who gathered in central Rabat before heading for the parliament building.
They gathered for a few just minutes, many making the V for victory sign, before dispersing. Another