ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Attaullah Tarar has defended the verdict in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case, describing it as a merit-based decision grounded in the law. Speaking to reporters outside the parliament house on Friday, he said the founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) failed to establish his innocence. Flanked by Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar, the information minister stressed …
RAWALPINDI: Five terrorists were killed in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber district on Friday, the military’s media wing said. A statement from the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said an IBO was conducted in the district’s general area of Tirah based on the reported presence of terrorists. It added that the security forces engaged the terrorists and …
ISLAMABAD: Former premier Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi were convicted on Friday in the £190m Al-Qadir Trust case with the PTI founder being sentenced to 14 years in prison and a seven-year jail term handed to his wife. Judge Nasir Javed Rana announced the verdict — previously delayed three times — in a makeshift courtroom at Adiala Jail. …
ISLAMABAD: The issue of a meeting between Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir and PTI leaders Ali Amin Gandapur and Barrister Gohar Ali Khan came under intense scrutiny on Thursday, but the agenda of the rendezvous remained shrouded in mystery, amid conflicting claims from both sides. Initially, the interim PTI chairman had denied a meeting took place, but on …
LAHORE: A Lahore High Court two-judge bench on Thursday issued notices to the police and the prosecution on eight post-arrest bail petitions of PTI founding chairman Imran Khan in as many cases of May 9 riots, including the Jinnah House attack. The bench headed by Chief Justice Aalia Neelum also directed the prosecution to present complete record of the cases …
ISLAMABAD: The constitutional bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Ministry of Defence to furnish complete data on civilians tried in military courts, barring the case of Indian spy commander Kulbhushan Sudhir Jadhav. The instructions were issued by Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan while pointing towards the ministry’s counsel Khawaja Haris Ahmed in an apparent move to determine whether procedural …
ISLAMABAD: The PTI finally presented its ‘charter of demands’ to the government in written form on Thursday, as the third round of negotiations between the two began. Talks between the government and the PTI commenced in the last week of December to bring down political temperatures, but despite weeks of negotiations, the dialogue process has hardly moved forward on major …
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Office (FO) spokesperson Shafqat Ali Khan, in his maiden weekly press briefing on Thursday, rejected reports of the annexation of the Wakhan Corridor and said that it was a part of Afghanistan. The Wakhan Corridor is a thin, mountainous strip in Afghanistan’s northeastern Badakhshan province which extends up to the relatively small border with China’s Xinjiang province. It …
RAWALPINDI: PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said on Thursday that he and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur had a meeting with Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir. “If talks have begun, it’s a welcoming gesture,” Barrister Gohar said while speaking outside Adiala Jail. “All demands have been presented.” He said that the talks took place …
ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail on Wednesday expressed surprise at an apparent anomaly in the Pakistan Army Act 1952 (PAA), observing that despite the presence of Sections 2(1)(d)(i) and (ii) that allowed the court martial of civilians, terrorists involved in crimes such as kidnapping a soldier for ransom, would still not face a military trial. Justice Mandokhail made …