Myanmar military intensifies crackdown on protesters following coup
15 Feb, 2021 10:52 PM
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An anti-coup protester dressed in a Batman costume outside the Central Bank of Myanmar building in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo / AP
An anti-coup protester dressed in a Batman costume outside the Central Bank of Myanmar building in Yangon, Myanmar. Photo / AP
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Security forces in Myanmar have cracked down on anti-coup protesters, pointing guns toward civilians and attacking them with sticks. The military seeks to quell the large-scale demonstrations calling for the junta that seized power this month to reinstate the elected government.
More than 1000 protesters rallied in front of the Myanmar Economic Bank in Mandalay, the country s second-largest city, when at least 10 trucks full of soldiers and police arrived and immediately started firing slingshots toward the protesters, according to a photographer who witnessed the events.
KU teachers protest against IBA students for allegedly attacking professor
Pakistan
Mon, Feb 15, 2021
Karachi University s students and teachers protesting outside Institute of Business Administration (IBA) against an incident that took place two days ago, on February 15, 2021. Photo by author
Teachers of the University of Karachi held a protested outside the Institute of Business Administration s (IBA) main campus after students and guards allegedly roughed up a KU assistant professor.
The protest, organised by the Karachi University Teachers Society, demanded that the encroachments on the varsity s land be uprooted and that the students admission be cancelled. This is not the first time that such an incident had taken place. We will intensify our protests if such events do not stop, the protesting teachers vowed.
National
February 10, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Terming Supreme Court the most appropriate forum for interpretation of the Constitution, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi Tuesday said the government would respect its guidance on the matter of open ballot in the Senate election.
In a statement, he said the government had only two options: one, to approach court for a constitutional interpretation; two to amend the Constitution, for which it lacked two-thirds majority.
Commenting on the current political situation in the country, Qureshi said Pakistan People’s Party and Pakistan Muslim League-N always bluffed about democracy and demanded open voting, but were now deviating from their claims.
NAYPYIDAW, Feb 9 (AFP): Police fired rubber bullets at anti-coup protesters in Myanmar capital's Naypyidaw on Tuesday, according to a witness and an AFP reporter.