ISLAMABAD: Thousands of anti-government protesters heeding the call of a firebrand cleric rallied in the streets of the Pakistani capital on Tuesday for a second day despite early morning clashes with police who launched tear gas and fired shots into the air to push back stone-throwing demonstrators. read more...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of the prime minister on Tuesday on corruption allegations, ratcheting up pressure on a government that is also facing street protests led by a cleric who has a history of ties to the army. read more...
Tahir ul Qadri asked Pakistan’s assembly to dissolve itself by 11 AM on Tuesday (1 A.M. EST), saying that the protesters would wait at their current position until then, awaiting others to join them. After that time, the protesters will march on the country’s general assembly, according to the statement. read more...
A prime-time ad on the electronic media in Pakistan these days shows Dr Tahirul Qadri, a Canada-based Islamic scholar of Pakistani origin, goading the public into joining his "long march" on the capital Islamabad on Monday. read more...
ISLAMABAD: Three thousand personnel from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Frontier Constabulary and Punjab police will arrive in Islamabad on Saturday as a part of the security arrangements for the Jan 14 long march to be led by the Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran (TMQ) chief Tahirul Qadri, DawnNews reported. read more...
LAHORE: Allama Tahirul Qadri on Saturday once again said he would lead the long- march on the federal capital to get his demands met as government delegation continued its frantic efforts to woo the cleric to cancel his plan, Geo News reported. read more...
LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Law Rana Sanaullah has said that the talk of Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri on long march is proof of his intellectual degradation as such behavior does not behove a person who declares himself "Sheikh-ul-Islam". read more...
Tahir-ul-Qadri, the chief Minhaj-ul-Quran International categorically refused to postpone long march saying his long-march could not be purchased. He reaffirmed his resolve thrice that the march would be held at any cost. read more...
Islamabad: The government, using all resources has finalised plan to keep Dr. Tahirul Qadri's long-march rally away from the sensitive areas of the federal capital. Extra troops of paramilitary forces have landed in the city to counter any untoward incident during the rally and to tackle the possible clash between the law enforcing agencies and participants of the long-march. read more...
