Pakistanis welcomed a tentative return to normalcy on Saturday following an agreement between the far-right political party Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) and the government after three days of violent protests that choked various cities and throttled economic activity...
In Islamabad and Karachi, traffic returned to normal after protesters ended sit-ins and road blockages were removed over the night...
LAHORE: As the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) began its sit-in after Iftar on The Mall here on Friday to mark the second anniversary of the Model Town incident in which 14 activists were killed during a police raid on the party’s offices, the Punjab government termed it a ploy to create political instability...
At the back of the main stage, capacious enough to accommodate around 200 people, the container PAT chief Dr Tahirul Qadri had...
PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s party has rejected the results of May 30 local government elections and threatened to launch a series of protest sit-ins against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and its government in the province...
They appealed to Supreme Court of Pakistan to take suo moto notice of the matter to decide as to who was responsible for the bloodshed...
Protest demonstrations and sit-ins held in major cities on Sunday, to express solidarity with the Faizabad protesters, continued to affect the daily life of citizens across the country for the second consecutive day...
Shahrah-e-Pakistan also remained blocked on Sunday with oil tankers lined up along the highway since 2am...
KARACHI: Activists and members of different religious parties continued protests and sit-ins for a second consecutive day on Sunday in different parts of the metropolis against law enforcers’ crackdown on the Faizabad sit-in, causing traffic jams on various roads...
Schools, colleges closed today, markets openLaw enforcers were seen patrolling and snap checking near the places of sit-ins...
The protest leaders called off sit-ins that have been hampering daily life in cities across the country after their list of demands were accepted by the government...
Earlier in the day, TLY leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi while addressing a press conference at the protest site ordered his followers all over the country to end the sit-ins and go home...
ISLAMABAD: In a ceremony held at Police Lines Headquarters, on Wednesday, policemen were rewarded for good performance during the political sit-ins outside the parliament last year...
SP Feroz, who was the SP City at the time of the political sit-ins, was removed from the post on October 22, 2013...
ISLAMABAD: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Monday blamed Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI)’s prolonged sit-in against the government in Islamabad last year for the six-month delay in the completion of the metro bus project...
“The nation should get the answer from those who wasted the public money and time during the sit-ins,” he said and added that during such a situation the bureaucracy also adopted delaying tactics to complete...
KARACHI: Thousands of Pakistan Peoples Party workers and supporters joined in street protests held in all districts of Sindh on Sunday for the removal of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in the wake of the April 20 Supreme Court verdict of the Panamagate case and for failing to fulfil his party’s commitment to overcome electricity crisis...
Speaking to protesters, PPP leaders condemned the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government for...
LAHORE: The Pakistan Peoples Party has warned of sit-ins when and where its workers are barred from attending the protest camp at Nasser Bagh, Lower Mall...
The decision to change the venue from Minar-i-Pakistan lawns to Nasser Bagh had been taken on the suggestion of the police and “we agreed with the spirit to cooperate with the administration and not the government,” he clarified, urging the administration to also act like public...
KARACHI: The president of Pakistan Peoples Party, Sindh chapter, Nisar Ahmad Khuhro, has said the Nawaz government is continuing exploitation of smaller provinces by not announcing the NFC award...
Referring to the ongoing loadshedding of 20 hours, Mr Khuhro, who is also provincial Senior Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, announced that sit-ins would be held on April 30 in every divisional headquarters and on May 14 at the...
KARACHI: A proposed merger between the Pakistan Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation (Picic) Insurance Ltd and the Crescent Star Insurance Ltd (CSIL) has fallen apart after the latter became disillusioned by Picic’s balance sheet during due diligence...
The information was disseminated at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on Monday...
PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chairman Imran Khan has threatened to stage sit-in against those ‘few unhappy doctors and management’ of the main teaching hospitals of the provincial capital who are a hurdle in the way of implementation of health reforms agenda of the provincial government...
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief termed the elements opposing health reforms as ‘mafia’ and warned that they might have taken stay from...
KARACHI/LARKANA: Province-wide protest demonstrations and sit-ins of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) came to an end on Saturday evening after Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah promised to send the murder case of the slain leader Khalid Mehmood Soomro to a military court for trial...
HYDERABAD: Qaumi Awami Tehrik (QAT) president Ayaz Latif Palijo has threatened to stage sit-ins by his party outside the offices of FIA, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as well as the Rangers headquarters if no action is taken against the corrupt PPP leaders, ministers, landlords, officers and bureaucrats...