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Pak: Pashtun activists arrested for demanding release of Ali Wazir
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Karachi Police on Sunday booked several leaders and workers of the Pashtun Tahfuzz Movement (PTM) in an abetting mutiny case after they held a protest demonstration outside the Karachi Press Club demanding the release of MNA Ali Wazir, the Dawn reported.
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TMC leader Madan Mitra says party wants peace, doesn't believe in riots
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Trinamool Congress leader Madan Mitra Sunday dismissed Indian Secular Front activists' allegations that TMC workers attacked them and said his party wants peace and does not believe in riots.
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Pakistan: Balochistan Liberation Army attacks security forces in Turbat, P
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In a statement issued by the Baloch Liberation Army, the separatist group claimed the responsibility for targeting a "facilitator" of the Pakistani security forces in Apsar, Turbat. The group also said that they have collected information regarding a "non-native" person, identified as Babu K
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Activists protest against police action in Pakistan's Sann, demand resigna
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Activists of political parties took out rallies and held protests in many towns of Sindh province over the police's action against workers on the occasion of GM Syed's birth anniversary in Sann, Dawn reported. They demanded the resignation of the Sindh Chief Minister and the SSP of Jamshoro
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Activists claim China-backed Kyaukphyu deep sea port to disrupt livelihood
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The development of Kyaukphyu Port and Special Economic Zone (KPSEZ), Myanmar's first deep-sea port in Rakhine state, is bound to face resistance, Mizzima reported, adding that activists have claimed that the deep sea port is expected to disrupt the livelihoods of local fishermen as fish stoc
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Greta Thunberg detained by police during climate protests in Germany
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The expansion of the coal mine is significant for climate activists. They argue that continuing to burn coal for energy will increase planet-warming emissions and violate the Paris Climate Agreement's ambition to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial le
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Delhi riots: SC says it doesn't believe in unnecessarily keeping people be
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
"We don't believe in unnecessarily keeping people behind the bars," said a bench of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul, Abhay S Oka and JB Pardiwala.
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Women's rights not a priority for Taliban, says Zabiullah Mujahid
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The latest action by the Taliban to ban women from working in NGOs generated protests by female university students and women activists in several regions of the country, as well as brought condemnations, globally.
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UKPNP spokesperson in Canada to discuss PoK concerns
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The spokesperson for United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP), Sardar Nasir Aziz Khan, was welcomed by the outfit's Canada's president Sardar Rashid Yousaf and other activists at Calgary airport, Khan tweeted.
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Thousands protest in northwest Pakistan's Wana city against rising 'terror
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Political workers, social activists and traders attended the peace march organised in South Waziristan's Wana today, the Dawn newspaper reported. The Pakistani newspaper said demonstrators chanted slogans against the "fresh wave of terrorism" in the region, particularly in the tribal distric
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Thousands march for peace in Pakistan's Bajour
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The peace march organised by the Bajaur Peace Action Committee, a local alliance of political parties, was attended by political workers, social activists, traders and youth. Tribal elders, traders, social activists and youth participated in the march and asked for the restoration of peace i
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T24 Ustad dies in captivity; nation mourns
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 6 (ANI/ATK): As T24, an Icon For Tiger Conservation Dies In Captivity, activists, Warren Pereira, Raveena Tandon, forest officers and activists remember India's most controversial Tiger
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