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Sri Lanka: Demands For Economic And Social Rights
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 20 days ago
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These measures have been announced as a response to a trade union action, the work-to-rule in order to improve wages, which according to the trade unions, have remained stagnant for four years despite of skyrocketing food prices and those of other essential...
Tags: trade union, Asian Human Rights Commission, Sri Lanka, emergency rule, Emergency Laws, emergency regulations, Colombo, Law enforcement, Philosophy of law, State of emergency, Human rights, world food price crisis, Political philosophy, Labour relations, Emergency management, Politics, Social Issues
Why Indira Gandhi is special
A quarter of a century has passed since Indira Gandhi was shot down by assassins who happened to be her bodyguards. She was not the first leader to have lost her life to assassins – two American Presidents Abraham Lincoln (1865) and John F Kennedy...
Tags: Indira Gandhi, Shakti Sthal, Emergency Rule, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Rajiv Gandhi, Dr. Manmohan Singh, Golden Temple Amritsar
17 yr old killings drag Pakistan into crisis
Lahore :: Pakistan | 3 months ago
Credibility Staff Report LAHORE: Pakistan’s main opposition leader Nawaz Sharif is facing a political storm based on a military operation that was carried out on his watch in Karachi 17 years ago. His party, the PML-N, suspects the 1992 operation has been deliberately...
Tags: Pervez Musharraf, Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, Pervez Ashraf Kayani, Nawab Akbar Bugti, Jamil Bugti, general pervez, Ahsan Iqbal, Mushahid Hussain, treason trial, emergency rule
Saudi govt invites Musharraf for visit?
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 3 months ago
Credibility ISLAMABAD: The Saudi government has invited former Pakistani president Gen. (retd) Pervez Musharraf for a visit to Jeddah, SAMAA has learnt through intelligence and diplomatic sources. The former COAS may leave for the city any time in the next 24 hours....
Tags: Pervez Musharraf, Pervez Ashraf Kayani, emergency rule
Pakistan Supreme Court summons Musharraf
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 4 months ago
Credibility Pakistan's top court Wednesday summoned former president Pervez Musharraf to defend himself over a decision to impose a state of emergency and controversially sacking judges two years ago. A 14-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry,...
Tags: Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan Supreme Court, Top Court Asks Musharraf, Mr. Musharraf, president pervez, court summoned, chief justice, summoned musharraf, emergency rule, imposing emergency
New clues surface in Sondhi case
Bangkok :: Thailand | 7 months ago
Credibility So only three rounds [from M-203] were shot, leaving the three spent cartridges behind," the source said. A new eyewitness (aside from a petrol station attendant) has said the gunmen had also fired at him when they saw he had witnessed the attack. But...
Tags: emergency rule
Thai parliament to meet amid unrest
Bangkok :: Thailand | 7 months ago
Credibility In a speech to the Asia Society in New York on Tuesday, Kasit Piromya accused Thaksin of playing a role in Friday's shooting which left Sondhi injured. Sondhi founded the Yellow Shirts movement that helped topple Thaksin in 2006 as well as successive...
Tags: Thailand, prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thaksin Shinawatra, emergency rule
Thai police probe motives behind Sondhi shooting
Bangkok :: Thailand | 7 months ago
Credibility Thai police said on Saturday they were not ruling out either political or "personal" motives in the assassination attempt on the founder of the "yellow shirt" protest movement and said five people may have been involved. Sondhi Limthongkul survived after...
Tags: MrSondhi Limthongkul, prime minister, Thailand, Abhisit Vejjajiva, minister abhisit, emergency rule, assassination attempted, Abhisit Vejjajvia
Bangladesh lifts emergency rule
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 11 months ago
Credibility Bangladesh's army-backed interim government has lifted a two-year state of emergency ahead of the general election on 29 December. President Iajuddin Ahmed signed the order earlier in the week. The lifting of emergency restrictions had been a key demand...
Tags: emergency, bangladesh, election, lifting, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islam, bangladesh lifted, AL Dhaka-16, Pallabi Thana BNP, emergency rule, backed government
Bangladesh 'will lift emergency'
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 12 months ago
Credibility The emergency has been in place for almost two years and will be lifted on 17 December, ahead of general elections 12 days later, ministers say...It has meant that political campaigning and mass rallies have been banned. Both main parties had demanded...
Tags: emergency, election, lifting, Bangladesh, lifted emergency, Hossain Zillur Rahman, emergency rule
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