Tag: Tahrir

Protesters converged on Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday to join camping pro-democracy activists for a demonstration to keep up the pressure on the country’s...

LAHORE - Police thrashed activists of the outlawed Hizbut Tahrir and arrested around 16 of them in order stop them from holding a protest at Qartaba Chowk on Sunday. A deputy superintendent of police (DSP) and Civil Lines Police Station house officer were also injured when Hizbut Tahrir workers retaliated in order to avoid arrests.
According to details, around 100 activists of the outlawed organisation tried to stage a protest at Qartaba Chowk but heavy police contingents were

CAIRO - Egypt's ruling military council apologised after military police beat protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square, but activists called for fresh protests to denounce violence by the authorities.
A security official and witnesses said that military police surrounded protesters shortly after midnight, beating them with batons and using tasers to disperse a crowd of several hundred that had gathered to push for reforms.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said that "what

LAHORE - The outlawed Hizbut Tahrir on Tuesday named the Liberty Square as "Pakistan's Tahrir Square" and announced to hold a protest on March 6.
The Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt played a vital point in ousting former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.
The outlawed organisation has distributed pamphlets in the provincial capital highlighting its demands including closing all foreign embassies, consulates and "spy centres" in Pakistan, expelling all Blackwater agents,

CAIRO - Troops took control of Tahrir Square, the fulcrum of protests that swept Hosni Mubarak from power, to allow traffic through central Cairo on Sunday as military rulers struggled to get life in Egypt back to normal.
There were heated rows in Tahrir Square on whether to keep up protests or comply with army orders to help put Egypt back on its feet. "The people want the square cleared", one group chanted. "We will not leave, we will not leave," replied another.
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LAHORE - An open letter from the outlawed Hizbut Tahrir (HuT), a splinter organisation of the outlawed Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, is circulating in many circles nowadays urging the Pakistan Army to establish Caliphate in the country, Pakistan Today has learnt.
"O officers of the Pakistan Army, you are leading the greatest and ablest Muslim army, you owe all material might, necessary for establishment of Khilafa. Now act quickly and throw out traitors from power," the letter