The body of the 31-year-old doctor was found at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9. Since then thousands of junior doctors in the state have been on a strike.
Hundreds of people who had joined the JAAC protest also demanded the dropping of all charges filed against the JAAC activist by the PoJK government, Amjad Ayub Mirza claimed in a statement.
Junior Dr Aloke Verma, currently on a hunger strike at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital, on Friday accused the local police of pressuring his patients and calling him to withdraw from the movement.
On Friday, citizens and traders held a protest in response to the lethal rocket attack on coal mines in Duki, Balochistan, which resulted in the deaths of at least 20 miners and injuries to seven others.
Amid the worsening economic situation in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB), the local administration has failed to provide the latest sachet of scheduled economic benefits to the beneficiaries of government schemes.
Farmers, commission agents, and rice millers have announced a big agitation against the government's policies regarding crop procurement in Punjab from October 13.
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad on Thursday extended the physical remand of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's sisters - Aleema Khan and Uzma Khan by two more days in vandalism cases.
Delhi's Tis Hazari court has recently accepted the Delhi Police's closure report in a case against a senior IPS officer filed by a female IAS officer alleging misconduct. The court also dismissed the protest petition filed by the complainant against the closure report.
Pakistan Punjab CM Maryam Nawaz in a public address slammed former PM Imran Khan's party Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaf's (PTI) for its attempts to stage protests in Islamabad and Lahore.