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The ranks of Hong Kong democracy protesters who have paralysed parts of the city swelled into their tens of thousands Monday, digging in for another night of confrontation with police in their campaign for free elections. In the worst unrest since the former British colony was handed back to China in 1997, demonstrators fought hours of running battles with police Sunday night, choking on clouds of tear gas as officers attempted to suppress the crowds. Riot police retreated Monday, handing demonstrators both a major morale boost and control of three major thoroughfares on the key financial hub s main island and across the harbour. But protesters defied government calls to go home and instead readied themselves to counter any new attempt by po stanley cup lice to retake the streets. Pro-democracy groups are locked in a struggle with the city s authorities over China s refusal to grant unfettered democracy, in one of the most significant challenges to Beijing s authority since the bloody Tiananmen protests of 1989. Public anger over rampant inequality and Beijing s political interference is at its highest in years in a city once renowned for its stability. stanley cup Last month China said Hong Kongers could elect their next leader in 2017 but only candidates who had been vetted would be allowed to stand -- a stanley cup decision critics branded a fake democracy . At the largest protest site in Admiralty district, where many international businesses are based, crowds swelled to some 20,000 people b Ecwj 3 women executed in Pak on orders of jirga
Pakistan prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says he has no problem working with opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, adding he wants to immediately lift federal rule in Punjab. HT Image I am sure we can work with Nawaz Sharif in strengthening the democratic process, Gilani told The Times, London, in an interview published on Friday. I have no problem working with Mr Sharif, he added. Gilani said that he wanted to lift the federal rule in Punjab province immediately, which yeezy was imposed last month after the Supreme Court banned former prime minister Sharif and his brother Shahbaz from holding elected office. Although the government has appealed against the ruling, the paper said president Asif Ali Zardari appears to be stalling on ending federal rule. Gilani, who has emerged as a surprise challenger to Zardari s authority, also said he wanted to implement a charter of democracy that was signed by Zardari s slain wife Benazir Bhutto and Sharif in 2006. One of the charter s key demands is to return to the office of the prime minister pow stanley cup ers to appoint the a air force 1 rmy chief, Supreme Court judges and the election commission chief, and to send back for review any bill passed by parliament. For a new Pakistan, we need to implement the charter of democracy signed by two former prime ministers. I think this is the way forward, Gilani said in his first interview since the end of the Zardari-Sharif stand-off on Sunday. We have to return to parliamentary democracy on the
The ranks of Hong Kong democracy protesters who have paralysed parts of the city swelled into their tens of thousands Monday, digging in for another night of confrontation with police in their campaign for free elections. In the worst unrest since the former British colony was handed back to China in 1997, demonstrators fought hours of running battles with police Sunday night, choking on clouds of tear gas as officers attempted to suppress the crowds. Riot police retreated Monday, handing demonstrators both a major morale boost and control of three major thoroughfares on the key financial hub s main island and across the harbour. But protesters defied government calls to go home and instead readied themselves to counter any new attempt by po stanley cup lice to retake the streets. Pro-democracy groups are locked in a struggle with the city s authorities over China s refusal to grant unfettered democracy, in one of the most significant challenges to Beijing s authority since the bloody Tiananmen protests of 1989. Public anger over rampant inequality and Beijing s political interference is at its highest in years in a city once renowned for its stability. stanley cup Last month China said Hong Kongers could elect their next leader in 2017 but only candidates who had been vetted would be allowed to stand -- a stanley cup decision critics branded a fake democracy . At the largest protest site in Admiralty district, where many international businesses are based, crowds swelled to some 20,000 people b Ecwj 3 women executed in Pak on orders of jirga
Pakistan prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani says he has no problem working with opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, adding he wants to immediately lift federal rule in Punjab. HT Image I am sure we can work with Nawaz Sharif in strengthening the democratic process, Gilani told The Times, London, in an interview published on Friday. I have no problem working with Mr Sharif, he added. Gilani said that he wanted to lift the federal rule in Punjab province immediately, which yeezy was imposed last month after the Supreme Court banned former prime minister Sharif and his brother Shahbaz from holding elected office. Although the government has appealed against the ruling, the paper said president Asif Ali Zardari appears to be stalling on ending federal rule. Gilani, who has emerged as a surprise challenger to Zardari s authority, also said he wanted to implement a charter of democracy that was signed by Zardari s slain wife Benazir Bhutto and Sharif in 2006. One of the charter s key demands is to return to the office of the prime minister pow stanley cup ers to appoint the a air force 1 rmy chief, Supreme Court judges and the election commission chief, and to send back for review any bill passed by parliament. For a new Pakistan, we need to implement the charter of democracy signed by two former prime ministers. I think this is the way forward, Gilani said in his first interview since the end of the Zardari-Sharif stand-off on Sunday. We have to return to parliamentary democracy on the