Tag: Streets

Frustrated masses pour onto Punjab streets

Mobs of angry protesters poured out in several cities across Punjab on Tuesday, demanding an end to over 18-hour-long blackouts and warning of worse...

Assad takes defiant message to Damascus streets

President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public appearance on Wednesday, vowing to defeat a “conspiracy” against Syria a day after he blamed foreign interests...

Qadri’s supporters take to streets

Supporters of former Punjab Governor Salman Taseer’s killer, Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, took to the streets to condemn the capital punishment awarded to Qadri by...

Unnecessary closure of streets irks residents of I-10

Unnecessary closures of streets by police in Sector I-10/2 has not only inconvenienced common citizens but also multiplied women’s and school-going children’s problems. The...

CCPO orders removal of beggars from streets

Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ahmed Raza Tahir on Saturday ordered immediate removal of beggars standing at traffic signals and cross roads throughout...

Children sexually abused on country’s streets

Nadeem knows first hand the misery of life on the streets. Sexually assaulted as a child, he became a pimp of young boys –...

Tripoli falls to rebels, crowds celebrate in streets

Fighters streamed into Tripoli as Muammar Kadhafi’s forces collapsed and crowds took to the streets to celebrate, tearing down posters of the Libyan leader. Reportedly,...

Broken streets in Dhok Elahi Bux irk residents

The residents of street 8, Ummar road, Dhok Elahi Bux have expressed grave concerns over the dilapidated condition of their streets and demanded their...

5 hours on, city streets remained inundated

In the aftermath of monsoon’s heaviest rain, Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) it took more than five hours after the rains ended to drain...

Pakistanis should go ‘to the streets’ for Islamic rule: Hizbut Tahrir

Hizbut Tahrir, a global extremist party banned in many Muslim states, on Friday said Pakistanis should take to the streets to call for Islamic...

Food streets plan headed to the scrap yard?

Due to a lack of planning and half-backed strategy, the Punjab government’s mega plan to establish nine food streets hit a stumbling block after...

Fed up of KESC-workers row, citizens head to streets

The power-deprived citizens of Karachi were forced to take to the streets on Wednesday as the row between the management of Karachi Electric Supply...

Patients in a lurch as health messiahs take to streets

Tens of thousands of patients and their relatives were left in a lurch as professors, doctors, nurses and paramedics of three major public hospitals...

World’s highest hotel opens in Hong Kong

HONG KONG - The world's highest hotel opened its doors in Hong Kong on Tuesday, housed in the city's tallest skyscraper and offering unrivalled panoramic views of the world famous Victoria Harbour.
Towering some 490 metres (1,600 feet) above the bustling, chaotic streets of the Southern Chinese city, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel is making a grand comeback after temporarily closing in 2008.
Visitors peered out of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the 118th floor of the International

Thousands of Syrians take to streets in protest

DARAA - Thousands of Syrians marched in the southern town of Daraa on Monday after the funeral of a protester killed in the previous day's demonstration, a resident said. The resident said "a mass of demonstrators started to march from the cemetery towards Al-Omari mosque after the burial" of Raed Akrad, who was killed by security forces Sunday when they opened fire to disperse a protest.
"Just God, Syria and Freedom," and "Revolution, revolution" chanted the demonstrators,

PML-Q ready to take fight to streets

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid is ready to take its fight with the Unification members to the hometowns of each and every rebel who is supporting the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.
It is learnt that the PML-Q is planning to hold public meetings in the constituencies of each and every member of Unification group in coming days. Sources disclosed that in these meetings, the party leaders would announce their future candidates for the next parliamentary elections from the

Christians take to streets

QUETTA - The Christian community on Friday staged a protest demonstration against the killing of Minister for Minorities' Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti, who was killed by unidentified gunmen in Islamabad on Wednesday. Calling the assassination a cruel act, the protesters demanded the government immediately arrest his killers. They also chanted slogans against terrorism and demanded the government give due status to minorities. The rally, led by Pastor Inayat and Pastor Nadeem, started from