Tag: Violence

LONDON - About 1,000 people are believed to have been killed in clashes between supporters and opponents of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, the British government said in a human rights report published on Thursday.
In a quarterly update on human rights in Libya covering the period since an uprising began against Gaddafi's rule, Britain's Foreign Office said it was appalled by reports of serious human rights violations during the conflict.
"Whilst there has been no official

KARACHI - At least five persons were killed in different firing incidents in the city during the last 24 hours, police said.
According to details, a 50-year-old Maulana Qamar Ashrafi was gunned down by unidentified people in Orangi Town. He was killed while he was going back home after offering prayers.
Former councilor Riaz Ahmed Alwi, 30, was shot dead in Gulbahar area.
Agha Siraj Durrani's chief security officer fell prey to gunmen in Azizabad.
Mauj Ali was

ISLAMABAD - Because of successive governments' failure in introducing any national policy on child protection coupled with ineffective laws safeguarding children's interests, violence against children in Pakistan has increased manifold with 5,120 reported cases during last year alone.
During a one-day orientation workshop here on Tuesday experts stressed the need to approve pending child protection laws and enforce implementation of the existing ones.
The workshop was

KARACHI - At least 43 people have been killed in political violence in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi during the last 18 days, officials said as they announced the arrest of 11 suspects.
"We can confirm that as many as 43 people had been the victims of targeted killings in Karachi during the last 18 days," interior minister Rehman Malik told in a press conference.
"We have arrested 11 men suspected of involvement in the targeted killings."
"There is a

JAKARTA - Thousands of Indonesian Muslims rallied peacefully in the Indonesian capital on Sunday to condemn the coalition air strikes in Libya and urge leader Moamer Kadhafi to step down. Protesters from the Islam-based Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) shouted "Libya! Freedom!" and "Dictator, No! Oppression, No! Murder, No!"
"The people and government of Indonesia should join with Russia, China, Turkey and India to oppose the military invasion by the allies in Libya," PKS leader

LONDON - Trade union organisers of a protest against austerity cuts in London have condemned rioters who went on the rampage after the rally, attacking police and smashing up shops in a night of violence.
At least 201 people were arrested and 84 people were hurt when a small group of "criminal" demonstrators broke away from Saturday's main rally, which was the biggest in the capital since protests against the Iraq war in 2003.
A group of several hundred masked rioters

KARACHI - At least seven people were gunned down in the latest spate of targeted killings in various parts of the city on Wednesday. Rahat Fayyaz was killed in the area of Peerabad in Banaras. His body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH).
An unidentified man was gunned down in the Garden police precincts. His body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi (CHK). Thirty-year-old Muhammad Saleem was gunned down at the Khadda Market on the Haji Ismail Road in the

SANAA - Abdullah Alsaidi, Yemen's ambassador to the United Nations, has resigned in protest over violence against demonstrators, a Yemeni Foreign Ministry official said on Sunday.
"Mr. Alsaidi has sent his resignation to the president's office and the Foreign Ministry," the official said.
The resignation came after two prominent members of Yemen's ruling party also resigned in protest against the killing of dozens of anti-government protesters during a rally on Friday.

KARACHI - A four-day-old decomposed body was recovered from a garage on Wednesday after the locals reported a pungent smell emanating from a shop on the Abul Hassan Ispahani Road. Area residents called the police helpline (15) and reported a pungent smell emanating from a garage where a man and his son were gunned down by two unidentified culprits on Saturday.
When the law enforcers arrived on the scene, they recovered the body of a man who had died of excessive bleeding after

QUETTA - At least six people, including four security force personnel, were killed and 23 others injured in various bomb blasts and firing incidents in Quetta, Naseerabad, Turbat, Sibi and Jaffarabad on Thursday. Outlawed BRA claimed responsibility for all the attacks.
According to police, an FC convoy was passing from Sariab Road when a car parked at Badini Cross exploded, killing one and injuring five others. In a similar incident, three people, including two FC personnel were

MANAMA - Bahrain King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa declared martial law on Tuesday as his government struggled to quell an uprising by the island's Shia majority that has drawn in troops from Saudi Arabia. The three-month state of emergency will hand wholesale power to Bahrain's security forces, stoking sectarian tensions in one of the Gulf's most politically volatile nations.
Disturbances continued to shake the kingdom through the day. A hospital source said two men, one Bahraini

KARACHI - Seven more people, including activists of Awami National Party (ANP) and People's Amn Committee (PAC), were shot dead by unidentified men in fresh targeted killings across the city on Monday. Many areas of the city remained tense due to the ongoing violence including the Saddar, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Pehlwan Goth, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Abul Hassan Ispahani Road, Banaras, Qasba Colony, Kati Pahari, Urdu Nagar, New Karachi and Lyari. An ANP worker was killed and two others suffered

WASHINGTON - Four in 10 Americans believe Islam is more likely to encourage violence than other religions, up sharply from March 2002, six months after the September 11 attacks, according to a new Pew poll. The figure is lower than July 2004, when a post-9/11 high of 46 percent of respondents said the Muslim faith is more likely than others to foment attacks, but it marks a significant rise from the 25 percent recorded in March 2002 and 35 percent from just seven months ago.
In

KARACHI - The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Sindh chapter has given a strike call for today (Friday) to protest the Supreme Court's decision of removing National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Justice (r) Deedar Hussain Shah. The party also announced that its MPAs will stage a protest walk from the Sindh Assembly building to the Sindh High Court after court proceedings are over. Karachi Transport Ittehad has backed the strike, but the Awami National Party (ANP) Sindh's spokesman

LAHORE - The Society for the Protection of the Rights of Child (SPARC) has shown concern over increasing violence against children. For this purpose an awareness walk was organised by the society in collaboration with Allama Iqbal High School Umer Road, Kirshan Nagar, Lahore, from the school to the Punjab Civil Secretariat. More than 100 children along with adults and the school staff participated in the awareness walk. The children carried banners addressing their rights and asking

KARACHI - Four people were gunned down in separate incidents across Orangi Town on Wednesday, Pakistan Today has learnt. Police said that two friends - Muhammad Yaqoob, 42, and Ziaur Rehman - were passing through Qaddafi Chowk in Mominabad when four men on two motorcycles opened fire at them. Both friends died on the spot and their bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital (ASH) before handing them over to the heirs, the law enforcers added. SHO Imtiaz Niazi said that

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