The US on Friday condemned the election-related violence and internet shutterdowns on the voting day in Pakistan, saying that they were concerned about the curbs on the exercise of freedom of expression in the country.
The lives of people in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir's (PoK) Gilgit-Baltistan as a complete shutter down and wheel-jam strike was observed against an increase in the subsidised wheat rate and other grievances across the region, as reported by Dawn.
Baloch has announced that a protest camp will be set up in front of the United Nations (UN) offices. She criticised the Islamabad police for profiling the participants and visitors to their camp outside the National Press Club.
The face of the ongoing Baloch protests in Pakistan Mahrang Baloch has said the shutter-down strike in the province is a message to the state to take seriously the demands of the ongoing movement against the Baloch genocide.
The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), which has been organising these protests, voiced its dissatisfaction over the government's response in a statement shared on social media, according to The Balochistan Post report.
Baloch people carried out rallies and demonstrations against "state terrorism" and acts of forced disappearances, extra-judicial killings and fake encounters by the Pakistan government at multiple locations across the country.
During the strike, all the businesses remained closed and traffic crawled near Mangla Dam, one of the largest multipurpose water bodies used for irrigation and hydroelectric power in the country.
Hitting back at Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar over his claim that the Left government in Kerala was showing growing tolerance towards "radicalism and radicalisation", senior CPI(M) leader and Politburo member Brinda Karat on Monday accused him of being an "agent of communal hate speec
Amid the protests and dispute around the sharing of Cauvery water with neighbouring Karnataka, traders in DMK-ruled Tamil Nadu downed shutters of about 12,000 shops and commercial establishments in the Nagapattinam district on Wednesday morning.
With schools and places of entertainment shuttered, Israeli cities, including its economic hub of Tel Aviv, looked like ghost towns as the first batches of the names of the dead were released, including many young soldiers in their 20s.