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  • Pakistan begins return to normalcy as protesters end sit-ins across the country

    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...

  • PAT holds sit-ins to mark Model Town killings anniversary

    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...

  • PPP threatens sit-ins against provincial govt

    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...

  • Sit-ins, traffic jams continue in city for second day

    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...

  • CM blames sit-ins for delay in metro bus project

    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...

  • PPP launches drive for prime minister’s resignation with rallies, sit-ins across Sindh

    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...

  • Sit-ins if Nasser Bagh inaccessible to PPP workers, warns Kaira

    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...

  • PPP plans sit-ins over power outages

    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...

  • Crescent Star, Picic Ins merger falls apart

    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...

  • Imran threatens agitating doctors with sit-ins

    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...

  • QAT plans sit-ins

    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...

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