BEIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi called on the Netherlands to jointly support free trade and safeguard the stability of global industrial and supply chains in a phone call with the Netherlands’ new foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp on Thursday. He also refuted recent comments about China made at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington, saying different political …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Saturday announced that the party will consult its allies before filing an appeal against the Supreme Court’s decision on reserved seats. Speaking at a press conference in Sialkot, Asif criticised the judiciary for overstepping its boundaries. He emphasised that rewriting the Constitution is the prerogative of parliament, not …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder and former prime minister, Imran Khan, and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Saturday hours after being acquitted in the Iddat case, sources revealed. A NAB team, led by Deputy Director Mohsin Haroon, arrived at Adiala Jail, where the former prime minister and his wife were taken into …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founding chairman Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi have been acquitted in the Iddat case. Islamabad’s District and Sessions Court led by Judge Muhammad Afzal Majoka had earlier reserved its decision on the appeals against the sentences of Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi in the iddat marriage case. Short order issued by court says Imran Khan …
ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to consult legal experts and carefully examine the Supreme Court’s judgement that declared the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) eligible to receive reserved seats, before rushing to challenge it. “We have decided to file a review petition after seeking legal guidance and going through the judgement of the apex court,” said Adviser to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs …
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is set to become the largest party in the National Assembly following a Supreme Court decision to allocate reserved seats to the party. The court’s ruling on Friday has resulted in the ruling coalition losing its two-thirds majority. According to the decision by the Supreme Court, PTI will receive 20 reserved seats for women and 4 …
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Friday declared Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) eligible for seats reserved for women and minorities, dealing a major setback to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s ruling coalition. The verdict was announced by a 13-member bench of the top court, headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa. A day ago, the court had reserved its …
ISLAMABAD: The PTI has suspended the membership of Sher Afzal Marwat, a firebrand party leader who was elected to the National Assembly in the Feb 8 polls, after a meeting between incarcerated party founder Imran Khan and the top leadership in Adiala Jail. Sources said the PTI leaders met Imran Khan on Thursday where the decision regarding Mr Marwat was …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has once again ruled out the possibility of any talks with the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and once again urged Kabul to act against terrorists operating on its soil. “… Pakistan has no designs of entering into any talks with a terror group that has been involved in killings of Pakistani citizens…,” Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch …
ISLAMABAD: Claiming completion of almost all prior action before time and reaching an agreement, in principle, with all provinces over agricultural income tax, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb sounded hopeful on Thursday that talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would yield a deal on a $6bn Extended Fund Facility (EFF) this month. The government will subsequently request the lender to augment the …