ISLAMABAD: Islamabad and Rawalpindi police launched raids to round up lawyers’ leaders and key political figures Wednesday in a bid to thwart the long march.Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) Chairman Raja Zafar-ul-Haq was put under house arrest while 35 workers, including lawyers, had been detained so far.The Rawalpindi police raided the houses of several PML-N leaders, including Hanif Abbasi, Malik Abrar, Ziaullah Shah, Shahryar Riaz, Sardar Nasim, Anjum Aqeel and Rawalpindi District Bar Taufiq Asif. However, nobody was arrested. N-league’s Rawalpindi Secretariat was also raided by the police.Besides, city administration has started to provide containers to seal major roads.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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