DUBAI: Finance Minister Ishaq Dar said on Sunday that the United States can not stop Pakistan from purchasing Russian oil and it will be possible to do so soon. While addressing Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) workers in Dubai, the finance minister said during his visit to the US last month, he had a meeting with the officials of the …
WAZIRABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairperson Imran Khan is in a stable condition after unidentified assailants opened fire and injured him on Thursday The shots were fired near the party’s container on the seventh day of Haqeeqi Azadi the march in Wazirabad. Party member Faisal Javed was also injured. PTI leader Azhar Mashwani confirmed via Twitter that the former premier was …
LAHORE: The long march was called off for the day after a reporter of a local TV channel, Sadaf Naeem died after she was crushed under PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s container on Sunday. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran earlier in the day said that his party was with the Pakistan Army and wants it “to be strong”. The former premier made these comments during his …
ISLAMABAD: A two-member team formed to investigate and ascertain the facts of senior journalist Arshad Sharif’s killing on Sunday recorded the statements of two brothers who provided accommodation and other facilities to the slain journalist in Kenya. The team, comprising Director FIA Athar Wahid and Deputy Director IB Umar Shahid Hamid, formally began the investigation today and interrogated Waqar Ahmed …
Former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan has said that the nation will not forget those “traitors” who imposed this ‘imported government’ upon them, accusing the incumbent rulers of destroying the country’s economy. “I will not accept these thieves and will continue to compete with them and their backers till I am alive,” he said while addressing a rally …
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday decided to indict former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan in a contempt case on September 22, terming his supplementary reply in the case “dissatisfactory”. The IHC larger bench led by Chief Justice Athar Minallah and comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Justice Tariq Mahmood Jahangiri …
BEIJING: The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Tuesday held a meeting on the preparatory work for the seventh plenary session of the 19th CPC Central Committee, and the 20th CPC National Congress. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting. The meeting decided that the seventh plenary session …
BEIJING: China on Monday refuted a report released by the U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), which accused China of creating and spreading disinformation about its Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The report is “confounding right and wrong and deflecting blames,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a daily news briefing when asked to comment on the report, adding …
ISLAMABAD: Days after a victim lifted the lid on the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) former chief’s ‘sleazy conduct’, the federal cabinet on Saturday approved the formation of an inquiry commission and its terms of references (ToRs) to probe into the allegations of sexual harassment. On July 15, the federal cabinet had approved the proposal of the Ministry of Law and …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to announce its “long-delayed judgment” in the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) prohibited funding case. He claimed that the “impunity given to him has hurt the country.” The case, previously known as the ‘foreign funding case’, was opened in March 2018, while the ECP has reserved its judgment …