QUETTA - Two local leaders of Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) were shot dead in separate incidents of targeted killings in Khuzdar district, some 360 kilometers southeast of Quetta, on Tuesday. According to police officials, the first incident occurred near Arbab Complex when armed men hit ...

BAKU: ABakucourt jailed on Monday eight Muslim activists arrested last year after they clashed with police in a protest against a ban on the Islamic Hijab for schoolgirls. The activists were sentenced for five to six years in prison "for resisting and using violence against police, and disrupting ...

LAHORE  - Police raided more than 48 religious schools located in different parts of the provincial metropolis and cleared 2026 students after proper checking, officials claimed on Wednesday. They revealed that 11 religious leaders wanted to the police in the 4th Schedule were found missing ...

PESHAWAR - Activists of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf from district Charsadda have demanded the party Central Parliamentary Board to review its decision regarding awarding of ticket for the PK-20.Addressing a press conference at press club on Monday, PTI President Charsadda, Zahoor Umarzai said that ...

LAKKI MARWAT – Local leaders of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf have condemned the party’s parliamentary board for awarding ticket to an undeserving person for the sole seat of National Assembly of Lakki. Speaking at a hurriedly called meeting here on Sunday, Haklim Asghar, Farman Zangikhel, ...

KARACHI - Anti-Extremist Cell of the Crime Investigation Department claimed to have arrested three alleged members of outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan from Shireen Jinnah Colony, Clifton. The arrested alleged TTP men were identified as Abdul Majeed aka Talib aka Jan, Hafiz Mairajuddin, Bakhtiar ...

BAKU - Pro-democracy activists in Azerbaijan Thursday paid an $8,000 fine owed to the authorities in 400 kilogrammes of small change collected by supporters, in an ironic protest against the regime of President Ilham Aliyev. The activists handed over 85,000 coins to the state treasury to pay the ...

KARACHI – Six activists of a religious organisation among 7 were gunned down in different incidents of target killing here on Monday.According to details, four workers of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), previously known as outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, were gunned down in a targeted attack ...

PESHAWAR – Students activists of Pakistan People’s Party have demanded of the PPP provincial leadership to reorganise the party’s Youth Wing by inclusion of ideological workers.Addressing a press conference here at Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday, the former provincial general ...

SWABI - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leaders and workers from the whole Khyber Pakhtunkhwa would gather at Swabi Interchange for the ‘Save Judiciary Rally’ on Sunday and from here they would proceed in a big procession on motorway to Islamabad.Addressing a press conference here on Friday, ...

Syrian government shelling and offensives against rebel-held towns killed at least 53 civilians across the country on Saturday, activists said, as the U.S. posted online satellite images of troop deployments that cast further doubt on whether the regime intends to comply with an internationally ...

BEIRUT  - Three prominent activists from the Syrian National Council, an opposition coalition, announced their resignations in statements posted Wednesday on their Facebook pages.An official with the SNC, contacted by AFP, confirmed that Catherine al-Telli, Haitham al-Maleh and Kamal ...

TOBA TEK SINGH - Scores of activists and supporters of Majlis Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) rallied here the other day, to protest the killings of 18 passengers in Kohistan.The rally started from central Imambargah and concluded at district press club. The enraged activists demanded end to the killing ...

MARDAN – One student sustained minor injuries during clashes between two student groups of the Government Post Graduate College, Mardan.The local police has registered cases against 33 students and arrested several students of PkSF, a student wing of ruling Awami National Party (ANP), and ...

LAHORE-Governor Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa Barrister Masood Kausar has said that the people struggling for the protection of human rights and promotion of constitutional values deserve all respect. While addressing an award distribution ceremony held under the aegis of Human Rights Society Pakistan on ...

KARACHI - Scores of religious activists on Sunday squatted on roads besieging the Governor’s House in protest over the killing of a Shia cleric late on Saturday evening. The protest rally-cum-sit-in against the murder of Askari Raza, 40, was continuing until the filing of this report.Marching ...

LAHORE Punjab University Academic Staff Association (ASA) staged a protest demonstration against PU Vice Chancellor Dr Mujahid Kamran in front of Punjab Assembly on Friday. On the occasion, ASA President Mahar Saeed said that Punjab Assembly Public Account Committee held an inquiry against illegal ...

SIALKOT - The Daska Saddar police have registered a case against eight leaders of banned organisation Jaish-e-Muhammad for collecting funds and preaching 'Jehad. The case has been registered on the report of sub-inspector Liaqat Ali after the three weeks of the incident. According to the FIR, the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE JI activists, armed with batons, iron rods and firearms attacked Punjab Universitys Hostel No 7 in the wee hours of Sunday and tortured resident students. The miscreants also tortured the superintendent and assistant-superintendent of the hostel, a Zoology Department ...

KARACHI Several City areas remained tense on Wednesday; a day after the targeted killings had claimed at least 12 lives. The charged political workers of parties whose activists had been gunned down chanted slogans during funeral processions held in different areas. According to the reports, the ...

KARACHI - Six people were shot dead in the target-killing incidents here in different parts of the city on Tuesday. In the first incident, armed culprits shot two men dead near Lassania Restaurant when they were passing through Rashid Minhas Road in a car. The area where this incident took place in ...

KARACHI - Lack of investigation skills made Al-Qaeda-linked Jundullah outer smart than security forces hence providing a ground for terrorism in the City. According to the reports, Jundullah a prominent militant outfit is directly operated by Al-Qaeda Commander Hamza Alias Jufi Al Misry, an ...

ATHENS (AFP/Reuters) Israeli naval commandos used batons, tear gas, stun grenades, rubber-coated bullets and live ammunition during the storming of aid ships bound for Gaza, activists deported by Israel to Jordan said on Wednesday. As Israel began deporting hundreds of foreign detainees, Greece ...

ISLAMABAD (APP) - The activists of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz allegedly thrashed a man for displaying a picture of Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, when Hamza Shahbaz Sharif and Provincial Law Minister Rana Sanaullah arrived at the workers convention in Faisalabad, a private news channel reported ...

GRAVELLY POINT PARK, Virginia, (AFP) - Some two dozen gun-toting activists rallied Monday in a national park near Washington to issue dire warnings that the United States could face civil war unless big government stops eating away at their rights. This isnt about gun laws - this is about liberty, ...

COPENHAGEN/STRASBOURG (AFP) - Police battled demonstrators outside the UN climate summit on Wednesday as leaders of developing nations let rip at wealthy counterparts, exposing the mighty obstacles facing a deal to tame global warming. Police with dogs fired teargas and arrested around 260 marchers ...

LAHORE - The Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) Thursday bears the brunt of deep-rooted political rivalry between PPP and PML-N workers when union body allied to PML-N mobbed the PHA office and roughed up its top officials for postponing the union elections till indefinite period. With the ...

ISLAMABAD - Scores of activists of banned outfit, Hizbul-Tehrir, on Sunday staged a protest demonstration here in front of Nawa-i-Waqt House building against the apprehension of their 31 companions on Saturday by the capital police. The participants of the demo vowed that they would continue, what ...

KARACHI - Police on Sunday arrested more than 17 activists of Hizb-ut-Tehrir over violation of Section 144 and loudspeaker act in the metropolis. As per detail, the demonstrators wanted to record their protest. They were moving towards Regal Chowk but law enforcers foiled their demonstration at ...

LAHORE - Activists of People's Unity (PIA employees association) have gone on token strike across the country against the management's decision wherein latter has merged the flight services department into flight operation department headed by a pilot, sources in the airline said on Tuesday. The ...