ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will resume the hearing of a case pertaining to PTI’s intra-party election on July 23. A five-member ECP bench, headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, will take up the case after deferring the hearing twice since May. This would be the first hearing since PTI’s chief election commissioner Raoof Hasan submitted …
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 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: 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 …
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday issued bailable arrest warrants against former information minister Fawad Chaudhry in a contempt of the ECP case. A four-member bench of the Election Commission, headed by the member from Sindh, Nisar Ahmad Durrani, issued the warrants for Mr Chaudhry due to his constant failure to turn up in the court. As …
ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Raza Naqvi on Thursday admitted that the release of jailed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants back in 2021 was a mistake. During a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior held here with Senator Faisal Rehman in the chair, Mr Naqvi said the release of the banned outfit’s prisoners had been made with hopes for an …