ISLAMABAD: PTI leader Barrister Gohar Ali Khan on Saturday ruled out a merger with the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) in case the former was returned its election symbol of the ‘bat’, reasoning that the two were political parties with different orientations. The SIC was earlier joined by PTI-backed independent candidates after they won the February 8 elections, since former prime …
ISLAMABAD: Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) Chairman Mohammad Hamid Raza on Saturday approached the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to seek postponement of April 9 elections being held to fill the seats of Senate chairman and deputy chairman. A petition filed through senior counsel Hamid Khan in this regard said that election should be held to a date after polls in …
ISLAMABAD: PTI leaders on Saturday criticised Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz Sharif for labelling Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as ‘a corridor of terrorists and smugglers’, adding that the PDM government was responsible for the resurgence of terrorism. Speaking at a press conference along with Punjab PTI Secretary Information Shaukat Mahmood Basra, PTI Central Information Secretary Raoof Hasan blasted her for blaming the …
PESHAWAR: Eleven candidates for the Feb 8 general elections have moved the election tribunals here, challenging their electoral defeats. Of the petitioners, 10 were independent candidates belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, and one was a nominee of the Awami National Party. Nine of the independents belong to Peshawar. They include former provincial ministers Taimur Saleem Khan Jhagra (PK-79) and Kamran …
ISLAMABAD: Information Minister Attaullah Tarar on Sunday rebutted former prime minister Imran Khan’s allegations against the senior military leadership in connection with the Toshakhana case, saying they were “false, fabricated and baseless”. The former premier had alleged that the senior military leadership “implicated” him and his wife Bushra Bibi in the Toshakhana reference “in an attempt to stifle my spirits”. Imran and his spouse …
RAWALPINDI: Two terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire between security forces and militants in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan district, the military’s media affairs wing said on Sunday. A press release from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that a fire exchange took place between terrorists and security forces last night. “Own troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location as …
RAWALPINDI: Former prime minister Imran Khan said on Saturday that the erosion of democratic mandate and control being witnessed in the country nowadays is similar to the situation witnessed in erstwhile East Pakistan. He added that the credibility of national institutions was tarnished when they chose to align with “thieves”. The founder of PTI made these remarks during an informal conversation with …
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, in his first telephone call with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday, expressed satisfaction at the current positive momentum in bilateral relations between Pakistan and the United States. According to a press release from the Foreign Office (FO), both sides reiterated their dedication to strengthening bilateral cooperation across all spheres of mutual interest. …
ISLAMABAD: Ten more suspicious letters, some of them laced with “toxic” powder and threatening writings, addressed to judges of the higher courts as well as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz were found by the authorities on Friday. Sources said that of the 10 letters recovered on Friday, six were addressed to the Supreme Court judges, including Chief …
RAWALPINDI: Former information minister in the PTI government Fawad Chaudhry, who had been granted bail by the Islamabad High Court (IHC), was released from Adiala Jail on Friday. On Monday, an IHC division bench comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri granted bail to Mr Chaudhry in a case related to alleged corruption in acquiring land for a dual …