Tag: Regime

GENEVA - The UN human rights chief on Wednesday slammed the Libyan regime for the alleged use of cluster bombs in Misrata, saying such attacks on densely populated urban areas could be international crimes.
In a statement, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay "condemned the reported repeated use of cluster munitions and heavy weaponry by Libyan government forces in their attempt to regain control of the besieged city of Misrata."
She noted that one cluster bomb

LAHORE - Federal Board of Revenue's (FBR) consultant German International Cooperation (GIZ - formerly known as GTZ) has presented its study on the reformed General Sales Tax (GST), proposing a uniform tax regime for all sectors. It believes that GST reforms will have two primary facets, namely inflationary and distributional effect.
Official documents made available with Pakistan Today reveal that the GIZ study indicates that GST reforms will put one time inflationary pressure

NEW YORK - Moamer Gaddafi regime has demanded that the UN Security Council suspend sanctions taken against the Libyan leader over his crackdown on opposition protests. Only "a modicum" of force has been used against opposition demonstrators and the government was "taken aback" by the sanctions, Libyan Foreign Minister Mussa Kussa said in a letter sent to the UN Security Council on Friday. The regime called for the travel ban and assets freeze ordered against Kadhafi and his entourage

MANAMA - Thousands demonstrators marched in Manama on Saturday to demand the Sunni ruling regime stand down, upping pressure on the government one day after tens of thousands flooded the streets.
"Leave Hamad, leave Hamad" and "Down Hamad, down Hamad," chanted the flag-waving demonstrators as they poured out of Pearl Square, epicentre of the protests which began on February 14. "The people want to topple the regime," they roared as they formed a procession towards a major

GODOLLO - NATO and the EU piled pressure on Moamer Gaddafi's regime on Friday, joining forces to rescue foreigners stranded in Libya while EU governments prepared to take part in a possible no-fly zone. As the European Union prepared sanctions against Tripoli, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen met with EU defence ministers in Godollo, Hungary, to discuss the vast evacuation effort under way in the strife-torn country.
Rasmussen also convened a separate emergency meeting of the

CAIRO - Egypt's increasingly isolated regime, once disdainful of the media, has launched a charm offensive in a bid to sap the momentum of massive protests calling for President Hosni Mubarak's overthrow.
Ministers are speaking to the press far more often, their remarks are more conciliatory, and the state-run media has belatedly started to use positive terms to refer to the "Revolution of January 25." The government is "making an enormous effort to communicate," political

TEHRAN - Iran's opposition leaders lashed out at the country's Islamic regime on Tuesday, saying the "oppressive and anti-religion" establishment was hurting the Islamic republic the most.
The bitter criticism from Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, once seen as pillars of the Islamic regime, comes three days before 32nd anniversary of the Iranian revolution that toppled the US-backed shah. "Today, the regime is hiding behind this concern that if it does not exist, religion

WAH CANT - Opposition leader in the National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Saturday warned if the due rights were not given to the people, the rulers' fate would be worse than that of Pervez Musharraf.
Talking to media persons in Taxila, he observed that the present government was worse than Musharraf regime. The law and order situation was deteriorating in the country and poverty stricken people were forced to commit suicides, he held.
Nisar voiced grave concern over

BRUSSELS - The EU's energy commissioner broke ranks on Monday when he labelled the Egyptian authorities' handling of mass street democracy protests as careless beyond belief. While European Union foreign ministers meeting at the same time deliberately shied away from criticising President Hosni Mubarak's regime, focusing on the need for elections, German commissioner Guenther Oettinger spoke bluntly.
"We are all very worried about what is happening in Egypt, with the images"

TUNIS - Tunisia on Monday unveiled unprecedented new freedoms and announced the release of political prisoners after a popular revolt but the ousted president's party held on to key posts in the new cabinet.
Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi will remain as head of the transitional government, which will prepare for presidential and parliamentary elections after former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali resigned and fled on Friday. The ruling party also retained the key foreign,

LAHORE - The government's decision to relax import of used vehicles has triggered greater problems instead of improving the situation, stakeholders of the automobile industry told Pakistan Today.
The government, with this decision, had claimed control of automobile prices in the local industry, however, stakeholders lamented that the government had played a trick with the industry. Stakeholders said that the government had allowed import of five years old vehicles but had not

KARACHI: More than 200 people have been abducted from various parts of the country in the tenure of the incumbent government - swelling the unofficial count of missing persons to more than 10,000 over the past nine years, Defence of Human Rights Pakistan (DHRP) Chairwoman Aamna Masood Janjua told Pakistan Today on Monday.
"Of the updated list provided by the DHRP to a federal-level inquiry commission, some 244 people have gone missing in the recent past. As many as 135 people

LAHORE: Muttahida Muslim League (MML) Convener Mir Zafarullah Jamali has cautioned that Pakistan's sovereignty would be at stake if an attempt was made to impose another martial law in the country, adding that there would be a 'black regime' if all PML factions did not unite.
"I see a black regime if PML factions do not unite, and I really have no idea when the light will come," he said. He was briefing reporters after the maiden meeting of the steering committee of the MML held

LAHORE: Muttahida Muslim League (MML) Convener Mir Zafarullah Jamali has cautioned that Pakistan's sovereignty would be at stake if an attempt was made to impose another martial law in the country, adding that there would be a 'black regime' if all PML factions did not unite.
"I see a black regime if PML factions do not unite, and I really have no idea when the light will come," he said. He was briefing reporters after the maiden meeting of the steering committee of the MML held