Source: Reuters
By Zeeshan Haider

Hundreds of Islamist women gathered at the radical Red Mosque in Pakistani capital on Wednesday and vowed to raise their children for holy war, days after a suicide bomber killed 18 people after a similar rally.
Chanting slogans of “jihad is our way”, burqa-clad women, some with babies, listened to fiery speeches from […]

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KARACHI, Feb 7: With the country due to go to the polls on Feb 18, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) is eyeing with some confidence 18 national assembly seats out of the total 20 available in Karachi, as compared to the 12 national assembly seats the party bagged in the 2002 elections. Nevertheless, the party […]

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Source: Dawn
Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan is set to participate in the rally which will be taken out from Nasser Bagh by the Concerned Citizens of Pakistan, lawyers, political parties and people from all walks of life.
The CCP, which came into being after Aitzaz was detained, had been taking out rallies from Zaman […]

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Source: The Post
Student Action Committee, Concerned Citizens Pakistan (CCP) Punjab Bar Council, Pakistan Medical Association, Lahore District Bar Association, Women’s Action Forum, Joint Action Committee, PML-N, PTI, National Worker’s Party, Labour Party, Khaksaar Tehrik, APDM and civil society groups will hold a protest rally Saturday (today) here at Nasir Bagh for the restoration of November […]

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Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has resumed her campaign against emergency rule, following the lifting of a detention order against her. She joined a rally by journalists against a partial news blackout, and called for a fresh wave of protests.
But the former PM was stopped from meeting the dismissed chief justice, who remains under virtual […]

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Author: Simon Gardner
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto will defy President Pervez Musharraf and go ahead with a pro-democracy rally next week, an aide said on Saturday, as Washington called on Pakistan to end its state of emergency.
A defiant Bhutto, who was kept under house arrest in Islamabad on Friday to prevent […]

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