Pakistani police rounded up hundreds of activists yesterday in a bid to thwart a nationwide protest against the government on Thursday [AFP]
Published On 12 Mar 200912 Mar 2009
But hundreds of activists set off for Islamabad demanding Asif Ali Zardari, the president, reinstate judges sacked in 2007 by his predecessor [AFP]
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Policemen arrested dozens of supporters of oppositon groups and stopped cars and buses from collecting protesters in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city [AFP]
Policemen beat party activists and lawyers who had left the high court on foot to march towards Islamabad where they hoped to join thousands of anti-government protesters on Monday [AFP]
Police across the country rounded up about 300 people, including members of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan's main opposition party [AFP]
Lawyers shouted slogans as they rallied in Lahore. The 1,500 km-long march is taking place despite a ban on demonstrations in Punjab and Sindh [AFP]
Athar Minallah, the lawyers' leader, speaks to the media after an attempt by police to arrest him near the residence of deposed supreme court chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry [AFP}
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Lawyers were beaten with batons and thrown into vans to stop them from gathering in a larger rally outside the parliament on Monday [AFP]
Nawaz Sharif quit the cabinet last year to protest against the government's failure to honour a deadline to reinstate Chaudhry and other judges and called for the people to "change the destiny of Pakistan" by joining the march [AFP]
