Pakistan

Police uses force against protesters

Peaceful demonstration turned violent as police used force to disperse protesters in Islamabad on Thursday.

Express June 03, 2010

"Police allowed mob then beat r girls too wil b questioned in assembly," tweeted Marvi Memon, Pakistan Muslim League MNA as a peaceful demonstration turned violent when police used force to disperse protesters in Islamabad on Thursday.

APCA and APTA activists joined Lady Health Workers outside parliament house in a protest demanding 100 per cent increase in their salaries.

"lhworkers sayin the harsmnt law usels doesnt help them when they get harased bec powerful get away," tweeted Marvi discussing the protests.

More than five hundred protestors demonstrated outside the parliament house. They wanted to record their protest in front of the parliament to have prompt action on their demand.

"When the mob attacked us n police the police atacked us bak wth tear gas mob wrecked r pecful protest we r regrouping," said Marvi in another tweet.

The protesters have vowed to continue their protest until their demands are met.

Hundreds of police personnel have been deployed and security has been tightened in the area.

COMMENTS (3)

Mahvesh | 14 years ago | Reply Could ET PLEASE stop 'quoting' tweets in its reports?! I'm not looking at a twitter or facebook update... you could try to contact someone and have an actual quote you know. As if it's not bad enough 'readin sum1 typin lyk dis' on the social networking sites, newspaper sites are subjecting us to the same. Please maintain some level of grammar.

jahanzaib.haque | 14 years ago We appreciate the feedback Mahvesh, but for timeliness of the report and for ensuring no one is misquoted, tweets are included verbatim in our online reports. Additionally, we consider tweets to be the equivalent of an actual quote. Best regards (Web Editor)

zaffar | 14 years ago | Reply I am unable to under stand why we do demonstrations. We are asking from human biengs to filfull our demands We should seek help from ALLAH.

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