Jamaat-e-Islami’s sit-in against inflation and expensive electricity bills in Liaquat Bagh of Rawalpindi continues for the fifth day, the next round of negotiations with the government is likely to take place today. Meanwhile, Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman has announced the start of sit-in in Karachi from tomorrow.
Jamaat-e-Islami’s sit-in against inflation in Liaquat Bagh Rawalpindi has entered the fifth day. On the third day, the rain burnt down the pandal in the morning.
The workers were entertained with local snacks Roghini Naan and Halwa by the Dharna management. Despite the monsoon rains, the participants are determined to continue the sit-in until their demands are met.
The government has formed a technical committee on the demands, the series of negotiations will resume soon, Liaquat Baloch
Announcement of sit-in in Karachi as well
Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman announced a sit-in in Karachi from yesterday. He said that he will stage a historic sit-in at the Governor’s House.
Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Hafiz Naeemur Rehman said that it was not possible to pay the electricity bills for any class, as a result of the government’s cruel policy, industries are closing down, it is not compulsions, incompetence, incompetence and corruption that the nation is suffering.
Apart from this, he said that our sit-in has given hope to the people of all over Pakistan, it rains all night long, it is the season of hibs, despite all the difficulties, the participants of the sit-in are persistent. Hafiz Naeemur Rehman said that people are participating in the sit-in along with their families.
The fourth day of Jamaat-e-Islami’s sit-in in Rawalpindi, ‘The longer the government accepts the demands, the more the loss will be’.
It should be noted that despite the rain yesterday, the participants of the sit-in closed the windows in the venue and took shelter in a safe place, while the continuous rain and heavy rain could not defeat the workers’ sentiments.
Amir Jamaat-e-Islami Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman has also reached the venue, the workers are also ready to support Jamaat-e-Islami Amir till the demands are fulfilled
Security forces in Venezuela fired tear gas and rubber bullets at people protesting disputed election results Sunday.
Thousands of people gathered in central Caracas on Monday night, some of them walking all the way from slums in the mountains around the city to the presidential palace. Protests erupted in the Venezuelan capital a day after President Nicolás Maduro claimed victory.
The opposition dismissed Maduro’s claims of victory as fraud, saying their candidate, Edmundo González, won the election with 73.2% of the vote. Surveys leading up to the election showed a clear win for González.
Opposition parties have united behind González in a bid to oust President Maduro after 11 years in power, amid widespread discontent over the country’s economic crisis.
A number of Western and Latin American countries, as well as international bodies including the UN, have called on Venezuelan authorities to release voting records from every polling station.
A heavy military and police presence, including water cannons, was seen on the streets of Caracas in an attempt to disperse the protesters and prevent them from approaching the presidential palace. Crowds chanted “Freedom, freedom!” and called for the government to fall.
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Footage showed burning tires on the highway and crowds of people on the streets, with police on motorbikes firing tear gas. In some areas, posters of President Maduro were torn down and burned, while tires, cars and trash were also set on fire. Armed police, military and left-wing paramilitaries sympathetic to the government clashed with protesters and blocked many roads around the city center.
The BBC spoke to several people who attended one of the protests in a densely populated area known as La Lucha, meaning “the fight”. Paola Sarzalejo, 41, said the vote was “too bad, a fraud. We won with 70%, but they do the same thing to us again. They took the election away from us again. We want a better future for our youth, for our country.”
His father, Miguel, 64, agreed, saying: “He lost the election, he has no right to be here now.” He added: “We want a better future for the young people because otherwise they will leave the country. They can do good work and earn a good living. We have a rich country and he is destroying everything. If all the young people leave, only the old people will be left in Venezuela, only the elderly.”
Also read: US to Reimpose Oil Sanctions on Venezuela
Cristobal Martinez, draped in a Venezuelan flag, said he considered the election a “fraud”. He said most young people in La Lucha and the surrounding area had voted in an election that was crucial for young people because “many of us are unemployed” and “the majority do not study”.
“This is the first time I voted in my life. I was there from six in the morning until about nine in the morning and I saw a lot of people moving in the street. There was a lot of dissatisfaction with the government. The majority of people participated for change.”
He said despite President Maduro’s long tenure there had been “no change” and the situation was “worse since President Chavez died”. He accused some elderly people sympathetic to the government of living off bonuses or food aid while “we want change, we want decent jobs, a good future for our country”.
Read also: Venezuelan Opposition Faces Split, a Boon for Maduro
Martinez said he wanted “people from other countries to help us… so that disasters don’t happen like in the past.”
Maduro accused the opposition of calling a coup by disputing the results. “This is not the first time we have faced what we are facing today,” he said.
“They are trying to impose in Venezuela a coup once again with a fascist and counter-revolutionary character.”
Venezuela’s attorney general warned that roadblocks or violations of the law related to disruption of protests would face the full force of the law and that 32 people had been detained on charges ranging from destroying electoral material to inciting violence.
Meanwhile, senior US officials said the announced results “do not align with the data we have received through quick count mechanisms and other sources, suggesting that the announced results may be at odds with how people voted”. That was “a major source of concern for us”, they added.
“That is why we are calling on Venezuelan electoral authorities to release the underlying data that supports the figures they have publicly announced.”
The US has not said what the results mean for its sanctions policy on Venezuela, however. Officials have stressed that while they doubt the outcome, President Maduro did call the election and allow opposition candidates on the ballot – even though opposition leaders are barred from running.
The Organization of American States (OAS) announced on Monday night that it would hold a meeting on Wednesday with its permanent council regarding the Venezuela outcome. (BBC/Z-3)
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- The opposition leader called for citizen assemblies to be held in all cities of the country to defend the minutes that, according to her command, give victory to Edmundo González Urrutia
Opposition leader María Corina Machado called on citizens to gather on Tuesday, July 30, in citizen assemblies to protest the results of the presidential elections. This is a way to pressure the National Electoral Council (CNE) to verify and publish all the voting records, which, she said, favor opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia.
In Caracas, the rally will be held at 11:00 am in front of the headquarters of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in the Parque Ávila tower on Francisco de Miranda Avenue, in the Chacao municipality.
“Dear Venezuelans, tomorrow we will meet; as a family, organized, demonstrating the determination we have to make every vote count and to defend the truth,” Machado wrote on her X account.
Peaceful protest
After the CNE proclaimed Nicolás Maduro the winner of the elections in results questioned by the opposition and the international community, multiple protests were reported throughout the country, with at least two people dead in Táchira and Aragua, as well as several people arrested and injured. In this regard, Machado and González called on citizens to demonstrate peacefully and avoid violence in defense of their results.
“There is a lot of indignation and we understand that, but we must remain calm and serene so that we can achieve victory without any regrets,” González Urrutia said in this regard.
For this reason, during a press conference at the Vente Venezuela headquarters on July 29, Machado asked Venezuelans to hold citizen assemblies in all cities of the country. These will be held from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm to address the opposition command’s evidence of González Urrutia’s victory, confirmed by witnesses from the 600 K Network. Machado emphasized that once the events conclude, participants must return peacefully to their homes.
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2024-07-30 10:34:30
JOE Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu met in an effort to close remaining “gaps” in the push toward a Gaza ceasefire deal, the White House said Thursday.
The White House meeting came a day after Netanyahu gave a fiery speech before Congress as thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters rallied outside.
Israel’s prime minister is facing pressure both at home and abroad to end the Israel-Gaza war, which is now in its ninth month.
Netanyahu said he had known the US president for 40 years. “From a proud Jewish Zionist to a proud Irish-American Zionist, I want to thank you for 50 years of public service and 50 years of support for the state of Israel,” he said.
Netanyahu also said he looked forward to working with Biden “on the big issues facing us” over the next few months.
The US president joked that Golda Meir was the first Israeli PM he had met, and that Yitzhak Rabin, her successor, was present as an assistant.
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The meeting follows months of tension over the war in Gaza, with Biden reaching a point in May, according to his friend and former defense secretary Chuck Hagel, where “enough was enough.”
Biden has also previously publicly threatened to withhold arms shipments if Israel launches a major offensive in Rafah, sparking anger in Israel.
Netanyahu said in June it was impossible for the Biden administration to withhold weapons and ammunition from Israel.
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In a press conference, national security spokesman John Kirby said the two discussed the urgent need for a hostage release deal, the potential for the conflict to spill over into Lebanon, the threat from Iran, and the need to reach “compromise” in peace talks.
While Kirby added that “gaps remain” in the US-Israel relationship, the relationship is still “healthy.” “By healthy, I mean, they’re not going to agree on everything,” Kirby said, adding that Biden is “very comfortable with the relationship he has with the prime minister.”
US and Israeli leaders also held closed-door meetings with the families of seven US citizens still being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.
Read also: Netanyahu Defends Himself, Blames Hamas for Hostage Swap Failure
After the meeting, Jonathan Dekel-Chen – whose son Sagui was kidnapped from Kibbutz Near Oz on October 7 – told reporters the meeting was “productive and honest”, although he did not provide details.
“We feel probably more optimistic than we have since the first round of releases in late November, early December,” he said.
Netanyahu also met with Vice President Kamala Harris, the expected Democratic nominee after Biden announced he was withdrawing from his re-election campaign.
In a speech to the House chamber on Wednesday, Netanyahu defended Israel’s war in Gaza, while seeking to garner support from U.S. politicians. “Our enemy is your enemy,” he said, and condemned protesters as “Iran’s useful idiots.”
The White House responded to Netanyahu’s characterization of the protesters, with Kirby saying “that’s not a phrase we would use” and “not a reflection of what we think” about the “largely peaceful” protests.
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets of Washington to accuse Netanyahu of being a “war criminal.” Their loudspeakers and chants could be heard clearly from the White House as Netanyahu arrived Thursday. Police arrested 23 people, including five inside the Capitol building.
Netanyahu’s speech was sometimes greeted with cheers, mostly led by Republicans. The Gaza war has deepened political divisions in Washington and caused friction among Democrats whose progressive wing is critical of U.S. support for Israel.
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib was seen sitting in the audience holding a sign that read “guilty of genocide.” Harris did not attend Netanyahu’s speech because of a scheduling conflict, the White House said.
Instead, she spent part of the day speaking to a crowd from the historically black fraternity Zeta Phi Beta. Harris has expressed unwavering support for Israel. But such a stance carries a political cost for Democrats.
Hundreds of thousands of protest votes were cast against Biden during the presidential primary by those who wanted him to stop sending military aid to Israel. Some of those angered by Biden’s war stance see Harris as an opportunity to mend divisions within the party, and win back votes.
Netanyahu is expected to visit Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, residence on Friday. (BBC/Z-3)
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