Fighting for their honour: Four gang rape survivors demand justice
KARACHI: The five women standing outside Karachi Press Club on Thursday could not stop the tears running down their cheeks. Four of these women were raped in their house by dacoits during a burglary...
View ArticleStruggling employees: Health workers demand permanent jobs
PESHAWAR: The staffers of the People Primary Health Initiative have demanded the government give them permanent jobs as they have been working for seven years on contract. There are around 475...
View ArticleUN, US demand full probe into circumstances surrounding MH17 crash
GRABOVE / WASHINGTON: The United Nations (UN) added its voice to global demands Friday for a full probe into the apparent downing of a Malaysian airliner in rebel-held east Ukraine, as international...
View ArticlePML-N’s thumbs up: Govt may accept PTI’s full vote audit demand
LAHORE: The top leadership of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) is said to have given the government the go-ahead to acquiesce to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan’s...
View ArticleEncroachment drives: Haripur’s traders demand removal of additional assistant...
HARIPUR: Traders have threatened to go on strike if Additional Assistant Commissioner Irshad Khan is not immediately transferred from Haripur. During a meeting of the All Traders Association (ATA) on...
View ArticleOne with Palestine: Rallies demand immediate end to Israeli offensive
MINGORA / PESHAWAR: Religious parties organised rallies in the city on Friday against Israel’s offensive in Gaza and expressed their solidarity with the people of Palestine. Tehreek-e-Azadi Al-Quds...
View ArticleSperm bank to meet UK donor demand
A national sperm bank, which can be used by same-sex couples and single women, is to be opened to combat a UK-wide shortage.
View ArticleAzadi march: PTI workers in Karachi demand special train
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) leaders have threatened to halt Pakistan Railways trains from Karachi to other parts of the country, if they are not provided a special train from Karachi to...
View ArticleUK MPs demand end to Israeli restrictions on Palestinian land
WEB DESK: Excessive Israeli restrictions on Palestinian territories cannot be justified on the grounds they protect the Jewish state, a British parliamentary committee said on Wednesday. “We challenge...
View ArticleRight and wrong: Resignations demand unconstitutional says CM
LAHORE: Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Wednesday that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan’s demand for the prime minister’s resignation has exposed his motives. The chief minister...
View ArticleCall for democracy: JI won’t support any unconstitutional demand, says...
LAHORE: The central mediator and Ameer of the Jamaat-e-Islami Sirajul Haq has said that the demand for the premier’s resignation would only be constitutional if an institution supported the...
View ArticleApril 12, 2010: Families of slain protesters from Hazara demand justice
ABBOTABAD: Families of martyred and injured workers of Tehreek-e-Suba Hazara (TSH) have threatened to stage a sit-in outside the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly if the government does not register an FIR...
View ArticleForced conversions: Disappointed by law enforcers, Hindus demand fresh...
KARACHI: Hindus in Sindh demand the government to formulate strict laws against forced marriages, conversions and for the protection of their rights. At a consultative meeting on the ‘Draft of...
View ArticlePolitical agitation: PTI, PAT stage sit-in, demand PM’s resignation
FAISALABAD: Activists and leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) staged a protest sit-in at...
View Article‘Collective responsibility’: Orakzai levies demand administration stop...
HANGU: Over 100 levies officials protested outside the office of the political agent in Orakzai Agency on Wednesday, demanding authorities drop the policy of halting their salaries under the Frontier...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists demand abandonment of Zulfikarabad
KARACHI: The Zulfikarabad project is an ecological and social threat to the area, said environmentalists on Friday, demanding that it be abandoned. The Friends of Indus Forum (FIF), in collaboration...
View ArticlePML-N rebuffs PTI demand anew, offers reform plan
ISLAMABAD: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) again rebuffed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) demand for the prime minister’s resignation on Friday on the pretext that there was no...
View ArticleModel Town violence: Lawyers demand chief minister’s resignation
LAHORE: Lahore Bar Association (LBA) leaders on Saturday demanded the resignation of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif after he was nominated in the FIR for the June 17 Model Town violence. LBA secretary...
View ArticleSeven-day deadline: IDPs demand repatriation
BANNU: IDPs from both North and South Waziristan have given a seven-day deadline to the government to send them back home. The displaced families have threatened to protest indefinitely in front of...
View ArticleFlood-affected: AJK villagers demand govt help
RAWALPINDI: Pothichaprian, a small village in Ajeera tehsil of Poonch district in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), has been inundated in the recent rains. There were almost 200 houses in the village...
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