ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Minister for Information and Parliamentary Affairs Murtaza Solangi has assured foreign and national media that all is set to hold peaceful, free, fair and transparent elections on February 8. “More than ample resources are available to ensure peaceful, free and fair elections,” he added at a press briefing here on Saturday. Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, special …
KARACHI: Caretaker Finance Minister Dr Shamshad Akhtar stated on Saturday that the interim government’s “proactive measures” to encounter external and domestic challenges have stabilised the economy. She added that the process of transforming the economy is underway in the country, acknowledging that structural reforms in every sector takes time. While addressing members of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce …
SWABI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leaders during a power show here on Saturday said implicating the party founder and former prime minister in what they said baseless and politically-motivated cases had backfired as popularity of the incarcerated leader had increased manifold, which would be proven in the Feb 8 elections. The power show was held in Naro Kali area, three kilometers from …
ISLAMABAD: An Islamabad court on Saturday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years in jail each in a case related to their marriage during the latter’s Iddat period. Senior civil judge Qudratullah announced the verdict on the complaint filed by Bushra’s former husband Khawar Fareed Maneka in a makeshift court at the Adiala district jail. …
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday declared former foreign minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf senior leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi ineligible to contest elections for five years. The announcement comes days after a special court, established under the Official Secrets Act, awarded Qureshi 10 years imprisonment in the high-profile cypher case, along with former prime minister Imran Khan. The court, …
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan has stopped the elections in one National Assembly and two provincial assembly constituencies of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa due to the deaths of the candidates. According to a notification issued by the ECP on Friday, the elections will not be held in NA-8 Bajaur, PK-22 Bajaur and PK-91 Kohat on Feb 8. It stated that the elections’ …
ISLAMABAD: A local court on Friday reserved its verdict in the case related to the marriage of former prime minister Imran Khan with Bushra Bibi during the latter’s Iddat period. Senior civil judge Qudrat Ullah will announce the decision on the complaint of Khawar Fareed Maneka on Saturday (today) in a makeshift court at Adiala Jail. Meanwhile, in a revealing …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the European Union on Friday agreed to further deepen their relations in line with the Strategic Engagement Plan-2019. The agreement was reached in a meeting between Caretaker Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell Fontelles. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the …
ISLAMABAD: A day after the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announced the schedule for fresh inter-party polls, the party postponed the intra-party elections on Friday until after February 8. The party will release a revised schedule after the conclusion of the general elections. It’s worth noting that the schedule released yesterday, by Federal Election Commissioner PTI Raoof Hassan, set the date for …
RAWALPINDI: Security forces killed at least 24 terrorists after the attacks on Mach and Kolpur complexes in Balochistan, said the Inter-Services Public Relations on Friday (ISPR). The military’s media wing said four members of the law enforcement agencies were also martyred during the attack as they “offered stiff resistance” to the attackers and repulsed the assaults. “These terrorists were then hunted …