Tag: Streets

Doctors to treat patients on the streets

Lahore - The Punjab Young Doctors Association's (PYDA) General Council (GC) decided after observing a three-day strike in outdoor patient departments (OPDs) of all city hospitals to resume OPD service not in the hospitals but on the roads adjacent to the hospitals on Friday.
All PYDA presidents have been directed to start the OPD service on the roads from Monday till the PYDA's next decision. The PYDA General Council said they did not want poor patients to suffer. This decision

Bhatti’s assassination – Christians take to the streets in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD - Hundreds of people belonging to Christian community took to streets in Federal Capital on Thursday, burning tyres and blocking traffic in protest against the brutal killing of federal minister for minorities' affairs Shahbaz Bhatti.
Two massive protest demonstrations were staged at IJP road and in front of press club, while small protests were also reported around the slum areas of the city.
Tyres were burnt to block the IJP road and slogans were raised against

Greek police clash with anti-austerity protesters

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

‘25,000 children living on streets in city’

KARACHI - More than 25,000 children are living on the streets in Karachi and vulnerable to diseases like AIDS, Sindh Human Rights Minister Nadia Gabol said on Sunday. "Seventy percent of these children are drug addicts," she added.
Talking to a delegation of a social welfare organisation, Gabol stressed the need for accumulated efforts to rehabilitate youth suffering from drug abuse.

‘Narrow streets thwarted attempts to put out Shah Alam Market fire’

LAHORE - The City District Government Lahore (CDGL) on Thursday issued a report on reasons for eruption for the fire at the Shah Alam Market on Monday. According to the report, rescue teams reached the spot late, which enabled the fire to engulf nearby buildings.
The report revealed that congested streets of the Shah Alam Market helped spread the fire, which created hurdles for rescue teams in extinguishing it. Illegal chemicals were stored in plazas, the report said adding that

Police return to Cairo streets

CAIRO - Police were back on the streets of the Egyptian capital on Monday, smiling at motorists and sticking close to each other, a stone's throw away from burned-out shells of their police vans. Their two-day vanishing act remains unexplained officially, but it left the city prey to looters and jail-breakers, as residents formed self-defence groups to protecting their patches.
The authorities announced on Sunday night that the men in berets and black pullovers would be

Thousands take to Lahore streets to support blasphemy law

LAHORE - Thousands of demonstrators responded to a call by the Tehreek-e-Tahaffuz-e-Namoos-e-(TNS) Risalat (SAW) to rally from Nasir Bagh to Faisal Chowk on The Mall on Sunday to protest against government's plans to amend blasphemy laws.
Demonstrators from the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) held banners in support of Mumtaz Qadri - the police commando who shot dead former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer. Leaders

Sanaa streets quiet a day after demonstrations

SANAA - Sanaa was quiet on Friday with no sign of the thousands of protesters who had flooded the streets the previous day to demand the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in power since 1978. Reports that the protesters would stage another rally after the weekly Muslim prayers proved unfounded and the situation was normal for a Friday, a weekly holiday in Yemen, with no visible extra police deployment, an AFP reporter said.
Saleh, who has been president for decades, was

New Lebanon PM prepares to form govt, streets quiet

BEIRUT - Lebanon's Hezbollah-backed new premier was preparing Wednesday for talks on forming a government in the deeply divided country as calm returned to the streets after protests over his appointment.
Prime minister designate Najib Mikati, a moderate billionaire businessman, was to make protocol visits to five of his predecessors before launching talks on Thursday with parliamentary groups. Security was tight and several schools remained closed, but traffic returned to normal

Silence in the streets

LAHORE - All major markets of the city were closed on Wednesday in condolence of the slain Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer.
Provincial government's offices, educational institutions, business centres and markets at The Mall, Hall Road, Gulberg, Abid Market and Liberty Market remained closed. The small markets at Model Town Link Road, Township, Garden Town, Iqbal Town and Shalimar areas remained opened. Customer count remained low at the markets, which were open. "There was hardly

Gujranwala women take to the streets to protest low gas...

GUJRANWALA: Hundreds of housewives expressed their anger against the shortage of gas by laying siege to the regional office of the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited for hours, breaking window glasses and damaging furniture.
The SNGPL regional general manager was also trapped inside the building during the protest.
Reportedly, a large number of areas in the city are receiving low gas pressure or a total shut down, forcing the women to take to the streets in protest.