Tahir Square

Around 30,000 protesters led by Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and cleric Tahir ul-Qadri descended on Islamabad's "Red Zone", the political and diplomatic enclave, late on Tuesday evening. Their aim: forcing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down. Despite the presence of hundreds of armed soldiers, they managed to enter the are...

The Egyptian military moved to clear the last protesters from Tahrir Square on Monday as the armed forces consolidated their control over what it has called a democratic transition from nearly three decades of President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian rule. A day after the military dissolved the feeble Parliament, suspended the Constitution and calle...

Around 30,000 protesters led by Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan and cleric Tahir ul-Qadri descended on Islamabad's "Red Zone", the political and diplomatic enclave, late on Tuesday evening. Their aim: forcing Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to step down. Despite the presence of hundreds of armed soldiers, they managed to enter the are...

The Egyptian military moved to clear the last protesters from Tahrir Square on Monday as the armed forces consolidated their control over what it has called a democratic transition from nearly three decades of President Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian rule. A day after the military dissolved the feeble Parliament, suspended the Constitution and calle...