GUJRANWALA, Sept 29: Bars across Punjab boycotted courts, held meetings and took out rallies on Saturday in a charged atmosphere to condemn President Gen Musharraf’s bid for re-election and police action against lawyers and journalists in Islamabad. In Gujranwala, lawyers gathered in the bar room when they heard reports that their colleagues were being roughed […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: The National Action Committee of lawyers has given a countrywide strike call for Monday to protest police action against lawyers, journalists and members of civil society outside the Election Commission. Supreme Court Bar Association president Munir A Malik told Dawn that the decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the committee. […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: Islamabad saw a dreadful day of police wrath on Saturday that marred General Pervez Musharraf’s march towards election for another presidential term. The capital went through one of its worst police violence targeting lawyers and journalists, many of whom were injured and hospitalised, as the president scored his second legal victory in […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: Over two dozens journalists covering the events on the day of scrutiny of nomination papers of the presidential candidates were injured when the personnel of law enforcement agencies resorted to teargas and baton-charge on them outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in an effort to clear the way for movements of […]
ISLAMABAD: Authorities on Saturday temporarily suspended the transmission of independent news TV channels to stop the coverage of opposition rallies here on Saturday against the president’s re-election plan, private TV channels and subscribers said. Police fired tear gas shells and beat protesting lawyers and political activists who staged demonstrations in Islamabad to protest against President […]
LAHORE, Sept 29: Known writer and Punjabi Adabi Board Secretary Raja Rasalu died of a cardiac arrest here on Saturday. He was 80. He was admitted to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology with chest pain two days ago where he breathed his last around 2pm on Saturday. His funeral prayers were offered at the Data […]
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