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Hardline Leader Calls Off Pakistan Protests After Minister Resigns
Islamist leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi whose group clashed violently with Pakistani security forces and paralysed Islamabad for weeks called off the sit-in protest Monday after law minister Zahid Hamid resigned, meeting its key demand.
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6 Dead, Around 200 Injured In Hardliners' Protest in Pak, Army Called In
Pakistan's government called on the powerful military to deploy in the capital Islamabad Saturday after deadly unrest broke out when police moved to dislodge a protest that has paralysed the city for weeks.
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Pakistan Orders TV Channels To Go Off Air During Crackdown On Protests By Hardliners
Pakistani authorities ordered private television channels to go off air on Saturday during a police and paramilitary crackdown on sit-in by religious hardliners in the capital, Islamabad.
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Pakistan Cops Fight Street Battles As Hardliners Surround Islamabad
Pakistani police used tear gas and water cannon, and fought running battles with stone-throwing activists, as they moved to clear a protest by religious hardliners who have blocked main routes into Islamabad for more than two weeks
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Pakistan Issues 'Last Warning' To Islamists Blocking Entrance To Capital
Pakistan's government on Friday issued a final warning to members of a hard-line Islamist party who have blocked a main road into the capital since last week, raising fears of a violent clash as they refuse to budge.
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Pakistan Protesters Refuse To End Islamabad Sit-In
Islamist protesters gathered in the Pakistani capital said today they would not end their days-long sit-in and were "willing to die", as armed security forces readied to clear the camp.
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Islamist Assassin's Supporters Hold Sit-In In Islamabad
Thousands of supporters of an executed Islamist assassin were holding a sit-in in Islamabad today after submitting a list of demands including the execution of a female Christian blasphemy convict.
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Pakistan's Imran Khan Calls Off Sit-in Protest After Peshawar School Terror Attack
Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan on Wednesday called off a four-month long protest movement to topple the government following the massacre of nearly 150 people by the Taliban at a school in the northwest.
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Imran Khan Urges Court to Stop Police Brutality
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday appealed to the Supreme Court to play its role in stopping police brutality in Islamabad where protestors are engaged in sit-ins against the government.
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Anti-Government Protesters Reach Islamabad, Imran Khan Announces Sit-In
Thousands of anti-government protestors led by opposition leader Imran Khan today reached Islamabad with an aim of ousting Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
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Imran Khan Travelling in Bullet-Proof Car After Vehicle Shot At
Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, leading protesters to the Pakistani capital of Islamabad for a sit-in demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, today boarded a bullet-proof car after shots were fired at his convoy.
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Tahir-ul-Qadri signals end to Islamabad sit-in today
A Pakistani cleric announced that a mass sit-in of tens of thousands of people outside parliament in Islamabad would end on Thursday, the latest twist in a drama that has gripped the nuclear-armed state.
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Hardline Leader Calls Off Pakistan Protests After Minister Resigns
Islamist leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi whose group clashed violently with Pakistani security forces and paralysed Islamabad for weeks called off the sit-in protest Monday after law minister Zahid Hamid resigned, meeting its key demand.
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6 Dead, Around 200 Injured In Hardliners' Protest in Pak, Army Called In
Pakistan's government called on the powerful military to deploy in the capital Islamabad Saturday after deadly unrest broke out when police moved to dislodge a protest that has paralysed the city for weeks.
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Pakistan Orders TV Channels To Go Off Air During Crackdown On Protests By Hardliners
Pakistani authorities ordered private television channels to go off air on Saturday during a police and paramilitary crackdown on sit-in by religious hardliners in the capital, Islamabad.
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Pakistan Cops Fight Street Battles As Hardliners Surround Islamabad
Pakistani police used tear gas and water cannon, and fought running battles with stone-throwing activists, as they moved to clear a protest by religious hardliners who have blocked main routes into Islamabad for more than two weeks
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Pakistan Issues 'Last Warning' To Islamists Blocking Entrance To Capital
Pakistan's government on Friday issued a final warning to members of a hard-line Islamist party who have blocked a main road into the capital since last week, raising fears of a violent clash as they refuse to budge.
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Pakistan Protesters Refuse To End Islamabad Sit-In
Islamist protesters gathered in the Pakistani capital said today they would not end their days-long sit-in and were "willing to die", as armed security forces readied to clear the camp.
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Islamist Assassin's Supporters Hold Sit-In In Islamabad
Thousands of supporters of an executed Islamist assassin were holding a sit-in in Islamabad today after submitting a list of demands including the execution of a female Christian blasphemy convict.
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Pakistan's Imran Khan Calls Off Sit-in Protest After Peshawar School Terror Attack
Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan on Wednesday called off a four-month long protest movement to topple the government following the massacre of nearly 150 people by the Taliban at a school in the northwest.
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Imran Khan Urges Court to Stop Police Brutality
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday appealed to the Supreme Court to play its role in stopping police brutality in Islamabad where protestors are engaged in sit-ins against the government.
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Anti-Government Protesters Reach Islamabad, Imran Khan Announces Sit-In
Thousands of anti-government protestors led by opposition leader Imran Khan today reached Islamabad with an aim of ousting Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
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Imran Khan Travelling in Bullet-Proof Car After Vehicle Shot At
Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, leading protesters to the Pakistani capital of Islamabad for a sit-in demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, today boarded a bullet-proof car after shots were fired at his convoy.
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Tahir-ul-Qadri signals end to Islamabad sit-in today
A Pakistani cleric announced that a mass sit-in of tens of thousands of people outside parliament in Islamabad would end on Thursday, the latest twist in a drama that has gripped the nuclear-armed state.
