ISLAMABAD: A Rawalpindi accountability court on Tuesday indicted former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the £190 million corruption case. Judge Nasir Javed Rana, who has replaced Judge Mohammad Bashir as he is retiring in a few weeks, presided over the hearing in Adiala Jail, where the PTI founder is currently incarcerated. In December, the National Accountability Bureau …
LAHORE: Senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Senator Ishaq Dar, has asserted that if President Dr Arif Alvi fails to summon a National Assembly session, the constitutional prerogative allows the Speaker to convene the session on February 29. Dar, addressing the media outside the Punjab Assembly, emphasised that according to constitutional mandates, a session of the National Assembly …
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will take up today, Monday, the appeals filed by former prime minister Imran Khan against his conviction in the state gift repository—Toshakhana—and the diplomatic cipher cases. The same division bench comprising Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb will also hear the appeals filed by Imran’s co-accused—former foreign …
KARACHI: Senior Pakistan Peoples Party leader Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah on Sunday disclosed that the PPP had first approached the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf to form government in the Center for the sake of democracy, but the PTI people refused to cooperate. Speaking to journalists on the premises of the Sindh Assembly, where he witnessed the election of his nephew Owais Qadir …
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz has asked those seeking audit of the Feb 8 elections results to first apply this rule on the 2018 polls, and announced initiating a grand dialogue with all parties. Addressing a ceremony on Sunday, senior PML-N leader Saad Rafique said, “Those who allege that the Feb 8 elections have been rigged and desire an audit …
ISLAMABAD: With its founder Imran Khan in prison, the leadership role has become a conundrum for PTI, as it has taken a U-turn and once again nominated Barrister Gohar Ali Khan for the party’s top post. Mr Gohar was elected as PTI chairman after securing Mr Khan’s backing in the December 2023 intra-party elections, which led the party to being …
ASP Syeda Shehrbano Naqvi is being hailed as a hero by Pakistan’s celebrities after she saved a woman from a charged mob in Lahore’s Ichra Bazaar after someone accused her of committing ‘blasphemy’ by wearing a dress bearing Arabic calligraphy. Naqvi’s bravery is on full display in several videos that have surfaced on social media. In one clip, the police …
LAHORE: Amid boycotts and delays, the Punjab Assembly on Monday elected PML-N’s Maryam Nawaz as the first female chief minister of the province and Pakistan. Maryam clinched an overwhelming victory with 220 votes against rival Rana Aftab Ahmed Khan of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC). Initially, the SIC — which is now home to the PTI-backed independent candidates who won …
BEIJING: The Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Korean Peninsula Affairs Liu Xiaoming on Thursday had a video call with U.S. Senior Official for the DPRK Jung H. Pak and exchanged views on the situation on the Korean Peninsula, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday. Liu said the parties concerned should face up to the crux of the Peninsula …
BEIJING: China successfully sent a communication technology experiment satellite into space from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the southern island province of Hainan on Friday. The satellite, launched at 7:30 p.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-5 Y7 carrier rocket, entered the planned orbit successfully. The satellite will be mainly used for multi-band and high-speed communication technology experiments. This …