ISLAMABAD: Of the 60 women elected to the National Assembly on reserved seats, 11 have also been elected on reserved seats in the provincial assemblies, with a choice to opt for only one of the houses. According to data released by the Election Commission, three women from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) — Tahira Aurangzeb, […]
REPUBLISHING of blasphemous caricatures by Danish press in the name of freedom of expression, sparked countrywide protests and strikes on Friday. Religious, political, student and social groups called protest demonstrations, meetings and rallies to condemn the European media for sacrilege it committed under the cover of freedom of expression. Leaders who addressed protestors said that […]
HYDERABAD, March 7: Rallies and processions were taken out on Friday in many districts of Sindh against the republication of blasphemous caricatures in Denmark newspapers. The protesters burnt effigies of the Danish premier and flags of Denmark. The Pasban Tehrik had also given a call for a province-wide strike on Friday. In Hyderabad rallies were […]
KARACHI – Karachiites Friday expressed their enraged sentiments against reprinting of blasphemous caricatures and an anti-Islamic film by the Denmark newspapers and other western countries. The City on Friday remained virtually paralysed due to strike call by different organisations as main shopping corridors of the city remained closed and thin presence of public transport was […]
LAHORE (March 08 2008): Religious parties activists held a series of demonstrations on Friday to condemn publication of caricatures by Danish newspapers. Activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan staged a separate demonstration while those of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan, Khaksar Tehreek and Pasban demonstrated outside Masjid-e-Shuhada. They chanted slogans against the Danish government. Speakers urged the government […]
HYDERABAD: A demonstration was staged here on Friday against the republication of blasphemous sketches. Jamiat Ulema Pakistan senior vice president Sahibzada Abulkhair Mohammed Zubair led the demonstration, which was participated by a large number of JUP workers and local residents, who were chanting slogans against the Danish newspapers. They also condemned the Denmark government for […]
ISLAMABAD: Demonstrations were held in all the country’s main cities on Friday to protest against the republication in Danish newspapers of a cartoon caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), which caused outrage across the Islamic world two years ago, Reuters reported. Angry protesters torched effigies of the Danish premier and his countryÂ’s flag. […]
City Courts’ lawyers staged a sit-in on main MA Jinnah Road on Thursday in connection with their ongoing protest week, demanding for the restoration of Justice Iftikhar and other judges of superior courts. The lawyers took out a procession from City Courts and marched on MA Jinnah Road in the morning, suspending vehicular traffic for […]
HYDERABAD, March 5: Pasban has given a call for countrywide general strike on March 7 in protest against the republication of blasphemous cartoons by Danish print media. Pasban leaders said at a news conference at the press club on Wednesday that the republication of blasphemous cartoons was an open challenge to the Muslim world and […]
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Wednesday termed Dutch filmmaker Geert Wilders’ anti-Quran film ‘biased and bigoted’ and said it was aimed at maligning Islam and had nothing to do with the freedom of expression. A Foreign Office spokesman said the film would harm inter-cultural understanding and could promote Xenophobia in Europe. “Wilder’s anti-Quran film reflects […]
LAHORE, March 4: The Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) demanded on Tuesday that the new assembly impeach President Pervez Musharraf and revoke his powers to dissolve the National Assembly. Addressing the house, advocate Ahsan Wyne said the Feb 18 election was a referendum against dictatorship. He said parliament should be given a deadline to […]
KARACHI – Jamat-e-Islami Karachi chapter on Tuesday organised a huge protest rally of students, belonging to local schools and seminaries, against the re-publication of blasphemous caricatures in different newspapers of Denmark. The demonstrators, led by JI naib ameer Prof Ghafoor Ahmad, marched from Government Islamia College to the mausoleum of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah while […]
Pasban Pakistan, a local NGO working against injustice and human rights violations, has given a call for observing a complete shutter-down strike on Friday against the publication of blasphemous caricatures by the Danish newspapers and appealed to the people from all walks of life to make the strike successful. Addressing a press conference at the […]
ABBOTTABAD, March 4: Provincial Special Home Secretary Mohammad Khalid Khan Umerzai has asked NGOs working in Mansehra to shift their offices to the district’s Ghazikot area where the provincial government has made stringent security measures to protect lives of NGOs’ officials. He was presiding over a meeting here on Tuesday, which reviewed the law and […]
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