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UNHRC: Pashtuns continue to protest in Geneva against rights violations in
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], March 8 (ANI): Members of the civil rights movement, Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) will hold protests outside the UN headquarters in Geneva on Tuesday to raise concerns over human rights violations being committed by the Pakistan Army.
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Pakistan: Petitioners move to Islamabad High Court to dismiss case against
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Islamabad [Pakistan], March 6 (ANI): Petitioners moved to the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Saturday appealing to dismiss the case against Baloch students who continued their sit-in protest against enforced disappearances.
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Pakistan: Baloch students continue sit-in protest over enforced disappeara
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Lahore [Pakistan], March 6 (ANI): Baloch students in Lahore and Islamabad on Saturday continued their sit-in protest for the fifth day against enforced disappearances.
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Some people in Congress 'sit in ACs, have good time, give long speeches':
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Dwarka (Gujarat) [India], February 26 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday talked in Gujarat about "disconnect" in the party regarding the contribution of workers, saying that the party has people who work round-the-clock and take blows and also those "who sit in ACs, have a go
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Pak journalists to stage sit-in outside parliament on March 1 against drac
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Islamabad [Pakistan], February 23 (ANI): Pakistan journalists have decided to stage a sit-in outside parliament on March 1 against a recently promulgated ordinance introducing "controversial" amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA), reported local media.
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Pakistan: 200 farmers arrested for protesting against hike in petroleum pr
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Lahore [Pakistan], February 23 (ANI): As many as 200 farmers were arrested in Pakistan's Lahore as they staged a sit-in protest against an exorbitant hike in petroleum prices, unavailability of fertiliser, and higher prices of compost and demanded the reversal of the government decisions,
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Pakistan students continue protest to lift ban on unions, reduction in fee
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Lahore [Pakistan], February 18 (ANI): Students in Pakistan continued their sit-in at Charing Cross on Friday to protest against the ban on student unions imposed by former president General Zia-ul-Haq.
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Anti-govt protests in Pakistan's Quetta over non-payment of government emp
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Quetta [Pakistan], February 18 (ANI): Anti-government protest rallies were held in Pakistan's Quetta by employees of Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA), Quetta Metropolitan Corporation (MCQ) and other Balochistan Municipal Committees over the non-payment of salaries and pensions.
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Pakistan: PTM continue to demand release of Pashtun leader Ali Wazir
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Islamabad [Pakistan], February 15 (ANI): The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) continued its sit-in outside the Sindh Assembly on Monday demanding the release of Pashtun leader Ali Wazir.
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Students in Karnataka refuse to give exams without wearing hijabs
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Shivamogga / Udupi (Karnataka) [India], February 15 (ANI): Amid the ongoing Karnataka hijab controversy, some students were asked to sit in a separate room as they refused to appear for exams without wearing their headscarves in Shivmogga and Udupi cities of the state.
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Protests held in Pakistan's Larkana for arrest of 'blackmailers' in death
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Larkana [Pakistan], February 14 (ANI): Hundreds of people including journalists, writers and civil society activists held a sit-in protest outside the Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Medical University (SMBBMU) in Larkana city in Pakistan's Sindh province over the failure of police in arr
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Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami party announces second phase of Karachi Rights
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Karachi [Pakistan], February 13 (ANI): Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi chief Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman has announced the next phase of his party's Rights Movement stressing that the party's "historic sit-in" outside the Sindh Assembly had changed the dimension of politics in Karachi and
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