Tag: Strike

LAHORE - The Lahore Customs Agents Association (LCCA) has announced its intention to go on strike against Pakistan Railway's step to raise charges of six services including port surcharge, demurrage, crane handling, weigh bridge and gate entry fee. According to the association, Railways had increased charges by 20 percent, despite the fact that these charges were raised by approximately 30 percent four months ago.
The Association Chairman Amjad Chaudhry said that negotiations

DOHA - Tadanari Lee scored an extra-time winner as Japan edged Australia 1-0 to win a pulsating Asian Cup final and become the most successful team in the history of the competition.
The unmarked substitute sent a stunning left-foot volley past the diving Mark Schwarzer in the 109th minute to hand his country their fourth title at the continental showcase, a feat no-one else has achieved.
The win, following their successes in 1992, 2000 and 2004, carried the added bonus of

TUNIS - Thousands of protesters rallied in the main government quarter in Tunis on Monday calling for Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi to resign after the fall of veteran leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The security forces fired tear gas and sealed off the area with barbed wire as some protesters threw stones, charged police lines and smashed up a police car at the start of a make-or-break week for Tunisia's new transition government.
"Resign scum!" the protesters chanted

JERUSALEM - Israeli diplomats on Monday ended a month-long strike that had severely impeded the Jewish state's foreign relations, an official said. The end of the work sanctions means that an upcoming visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, scheduled for the end of January, will likely go ahead, Hanan Goder, head of the workers' union at the foreign ministry told AFP.
"I hope she will come, we are going back to work and we have a lot of work to do," he said. Doubts over

DOHA - A 117th-minute strike from Harry Kewell powered Australia to a 1-0 quarter-final victory over holders Iraq at the Asian Cup on Saturday and into a showdown with Uzbekistan for a place in the final.
The Galatasaray forward met a pinpoint cross from Matt McKay towards the end of extra time and angled his header past Iraqi goalkeeper Mohammed Kassid to settle a match that that could have gone either way. It set them up for a semi-final against the Uzbeks on Tuesday, and

KARACHI - Doctors working in public sector hospitals across Sindh including Karachi observed a two-hour strike on Friday in response to the call issued by the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA), Karachi against increasing incidents of killings of doctors in the province.
The PMA issued the call for this strike on Thursday during a meeting held at the PMA House to condemn the brutal murder of yet another doctor, Dr Imran Wasi, who was shot dead near the Lyari General Hospital.

KARACHI - All doctors working in public and private hospitals throughout Sindh would observe a strike for two hours today (Friday) to protest against the increasing incidents of murdering doctors.
Only emergency cases would be considered during the strike. However, all wards, the outdoor patients departments, and routine checkups and surgeries would be postponed for two hours.
The Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Karachi announced the strike call on Thursday in a meeting

JERUSALEM - Israeli diplomacy, which is already engaged in an uphill battle to defend the Jewish state from international criticism, is facing a new threat: a strike by diplomats who say they are penniless. Foreign ministry employees began protesting a year ago, but have recently toughened their stance, launching a staff strike which has seriously hampered operations at both the ministry and at Israeli embassies around the world.
"Since December 27, we are no longer helping with

LONDON - Londoners face more transport disruption after a 24-hour strike was called on part of the underground train system in support of two sacked drivers. The strike will take place from the evening of January 14 and will affect the Bakerloo and Northern lines, the Rail, Maritime and Transport union said on Monday.
Workers walked out on a similar 24-hour strike last month. Commuters have already had to endure severe disruption across the network in a separate dispute between

QUETTA - Complete strike was observed in different towns of Balochistan on third consecutive day against the killing of leaders of Baloch Students Organization (Azad) and against the kidnapping of Balochis by intelligence agencies on Saturday.
Unidentified people torched official buildings and vehicles in Turbat. Baloch National Front had given a three day strike call throughout the province to condemn the killing of senior student leader Qambar Chakar and Illyas Nazar by

PESHAWAR - A top Al Qaeda leader and close associate of Osama Bin Laden is said to have been killed in a recent drone strike in North Waziristan Agency, security officials said on Sunday.
The officials said Bin Laden's personal assistant Nasir Al Wahishi, 32, was killed when an unmanned US drone fire four missiles on two compounds of local militants in Ghulam Khan Town, some 20 kilomters northwest of Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan. "The high value target was

PESHAWAR - A US missile targeting a vehicle in North Waziristan killed at least four people and injured several others on Friday.
Officials in Miranshah said two missiles fired by the drone hit the vehicle in Ghulam Khan, 15 kilometres northwest of Miranshah.
"It was an American drone attack, four militants have been killed, the death toll may rise," a security official said. Another security official in Peshawar also confirmed the attack and the death toll. More than 120

LAHORE - Traders across the country have joined the movement for the protection of the blasphemy laws and announced a countrywide strike for today (Friday).
The All Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajiran (APAT), Qaumi Tajir Ittehad (QTI), Gulberg Traders Board Association (GTBA), Mall Road Traders Association (MRTA), Lahore Sugar Dealers Association and Lahore Karyana Merchants Association has confirmed their participation in the strike.
Earlier, the APAT gave a strike call against the

LAHORE - The markets and business centres of the city will remain closed today and two rallies will be taken out against a possible change in blasphemy laws.
The decision was made during a meeting of traders of different markets of the city, including Liberty Market President Zahid Javed and Hafeez Centre President Malik Kaleem. The traders said all city markets will be closed completely, including fruit and vegetable markets.
It was decided that Shah Alam Market, Azam

LAHORE - Traders are again divided over the issue of reformed general sales tax (GST). All Pakistan Anjuman-e-Tajiran (APAT) has announced a countrywide strike against reformed general sales tax (GST) and price hike on Friday, December 31, while Qaumi Tajir Ittehad (QTI), Gulberg Traders Board Association and Mall Road Traders Association, has declared it irrelevant.
Speaking to Pakistan Today, secretary general APAT Abdul Razzaq Babbar said that traders would strongly react

PESHAWAR - At least 18 people were killed and several others injured when a US drone targeted two vehicles in a village along Thall Road near Mirali town of North Waziristan Agency on Monday.
Officials in Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan, said two pick-up trucks were heading to Thall when the drone targeted them in Sheratala village, located in Zara Mela area of Mirali. They said the drone fired seven missiles at the vehicles, killing 18 people on board and

GLASGOW - Injury-time goals by Korean duo Cha Du-Ri and Ki Sung-Yeung grabbed title chasing Celtic a vital three points here on Sunday with a 2-0 win over St Johnstone.
The victory keeps them two points behind rivals Rangers at the top of the Scottish Premier League - but it could have been four points had not the Koreans struck when the visitors were thinking they had earned a valuable point. Rangers ran out easy 4-1 winners away at Motherwell.
However Cha scored a wonder