Tag: Rally

KARACHI - A rally was organised on Saturday in connection with the 'Hamara Karachi' festival. Small rallies from all 18 towns of the city converged into one at the Mazar-e-Quaid. Former city naib nazim and president of the Hamara Karachi Foundation, Nasreen Jalil, addressed the gathering. She said on the occasion that Karachi is the city of all and concerted efforts would have to be made for its progress and development.
Jalil said that everyone should work towards making Karachi

KARACHI - The Shehri-CBE, a Karachi-based non-profit organisation, has organised a peaceful protest rally against the 'The Sindh Protection and Prohibition of Amenity Plots Bill 2009' today (Saturday) at Mazar-e-Quaid where citizens will gather for about 20 minutes. According to a press release issued on Friday, the "deceptively named proposed bill" essentially states that the MPAs can change the use of amenity land.

SIALKOT- Hundreds of Christians on Thursday afternoon took out a peaceful rally to condemn the assassination of Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti. The rally which was at the city's congested Allama Iqbal Chowk was led by Bishop Samuel Masih. A large number of people from all walks of life, including political workers, civil society members and the activists of various NGOs and human rights bodies, participated in the rally.
The protesters were holding banners and

SAHIWAL - The religious parties took out a protest rally against the possible release of Remand Davis. The rally started from Jamia Uloom-e-Sharia and ended at Sadar Chowk, passing through the main bazaar. The participants of the rally were holding banners inscribed with a slogan 'Remand Davis should be hanged'. They said the government was adopting a weak policy on the issue, but people would not allow the government to release the killer of the innocent Pakistanis.
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BEIJING - Police have levelled subversion charges against several top activists who urged Middle East-style protests in China, in what appears to be a severe crackdown on dissent, rights groups said on Friday. Ahead of an appeal for fresh "Jasmine rallies" in 13 Chinese cities on Sunday, skittish authorities in Beijing called the foreign press into line, telephoning journalists and using state media to reiterate the reporting rules. More than 100 activists have been subjected to

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

LAHORE - A large number of Punjab University teachers attended a rally organized by University Teachers Front here on Tuesday from IBIT to IBA against the behaviour of Academic Staff Association's office-bearers. Earlier, a meeting was held in the auditorium of Institute of Business and Information Technology which received strong attendance.
The meeting condemned the false propaganda meted out against the Vice Chancellor and senior teachers by ASA President Maher Saeed Akhter

TUNIS - Tunisian security forces fired in the air on Sunday in a vain attempt to disperse tens of thousands of demonstrators in the capital calling for a new interim government, a Reuters witness said. It was the second straight day of mass protests in the North African country's main city, in defiance of a government ban on rallies, after a lull following the popular uprising last month which overthrew President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
After weeks of relative calm, as many as

BANGKOK - Thousands of Thai "Red Shirts" gathered in Bangkok on Saturday to mark nine months since a bloody crackdown on their anti-government rally and to press for the release of detained leaders. Police estimated around 25,000 protesters massed in the city as part of a rally that crossed from Bangkok's retail heart to the Democracy Monument, both sites of bloodshed during demonstration in April and May of the last year.
Dressed in their trademark colour and waving banners,

TEHRAN - Hundreds of Iranians marched toward a Tehran square on Monday in a banned rally supporting popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, but their way was blocked by police and security forces, witnesses said. The march was a test of strength for the reformist opposition, which has not taken to the streets since Dec. 2009, when eight people were killed. But Iranian security forces are still unlikely to hesitate to use all means to stop any protest.
Opposition leaders

ROME - Thousands of women took to the streets of Italian cities Sunday calling for "dignity" and greater rights after a series of lurid prostitution scandals involving Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. "We are defending the dignity of women," read a placard held up at one of the rallies in Palermo, where thousands of women marched through the city. Thousands more rallied in Bari, Trieste and Venice -- with men also joining.
Solidarity protests by women abroad were also expected,

SIALKOT - Hundreds of students of local seminaries on Sunday took out a rally in connection with Jashn-e-Eid Milad-un-Nabi (PBUH) in the city. The rally passed through all the city main roads and bazaars.
The participants were carrying banners, placards and green flags, welcoming the 12th of Rabi-ul-Awwal. They were also reciting Kalima Tayyaba and Naats on loudspeakers. Jamaat-e-Ahle Sunnah Punjab Amir Allama Qari Khalid Mehmood and other local religious clerics led the rally.

LAHORE - Last Sunday, while Tehrik-i-Namoos-i-Risalat was holding its rally on the Mall Road, Lahore, apparently some zealots of the banned outfit Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) sneaked into the demonstration and started a free distribution of CDs among the participants.
Enclosed in a light pink CD cover and bearing the title "Namoos-i-Risalat", hundreds of these CDs changed hands silently. The recipients of these CDs later discovered that CD started with a eulogy of Jihad in

KARACHI - The PPP Karachi Division's public meeting to mark the Kashmir Day on Saturday went awry when the party's jiyalas started protesting police excesses and sale of government jobs. The hall of the Arts Council of Pakistan - where the programme was organised - echoed with slogans by PPP activists belonging to different party wings during Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah's speech.
Holding placards, the People's Students Federation activists started protesting the Aram

LAHORE - Awami Muslim League (AML) is organising a rally against the killing of three Pakistanis by Raymond Davis today after the Friday prayer from AML's office to the Lahore Press Club at 3pm. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf conducted such a rally on Thursday as well, where participants rallied to Qartaba Chowk and showered flowers on the crime scene, set the American flag on fire and tossed shoes on Davis' picture, hollering slogans against the US.

FAISALABAD - Dozens of Faisalabad District Court workers held a protest rally in support of their pay raise. Reportedly, the protesters including sessions and civil courts' employees, readers, clerks and peons, took out a rally, carrying banners and placards inscribed with their demand for an increase in their salaries.
The protesters marched to District Council Chowk and Faisalabad Press Club for their demands and appealed to Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry

LAHORE - Traffic remain choked at various roads of the city on Sunday, as religious parties organised a rally against proposed amendments in the blasphemy law from the Nasir Bagh to the Chairing Cross. Motorists were irked by blockades placed on main arteries of the rally's route, which caused severe problems for commuters in reaching their destinations.
All kinds of transport were abandoned on the rally's route and almost half of the Walled City was cordoned of due to security