ISLAMABAD: The opposition alliance Tehreek-i-Tahafuz Ayeen-i-Pakistan (TTAP) held an emergency meeting on Friday to review the country’s political situation in the wake of the 27th Constitutional Amendment’s passage. President Asif Ali Zardari gave his assent to the contentious 27th Constitutional Amendment on Thursday, enacting it into law. The TTAP had already ann­o­unced a nationwide protest movement aga­i­nst the am­­end­ment since …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) peace jirga, comprising stakeholders from the province, on Wednesday unanimously demanded that the federal government prioritise negotiations with Afghanistan and consult the KP government over Afghan policy. The jirga, organised by the KP government, demanded a provincial action plan, reopening of all trade routes with Afghanistan, and also reducing tensions between the KP and federal …

ISLAMABAD: Advocate General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Shah Faisal Utmankhel on Monday filed a contempt of court petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) over the non-compliance of a judicial order that directed authorities to allow KP Chief Minister Sohail Afridi to meet the incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan at Adiala jail. The petition, filed by Advocate General Shah Faisal on …

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly deliberated on the contentious 27th Constitutional Amendment bill on Tuesday — a day after the government succeeded in manoeuvring it through the Senate — with PTI’s Barrister Gohar Ali Khan accusing the government of attempting to “create another elite class”. He made these remarks particularly in reference to a proposal under the 27th Amendment to grant …

PESHAWAR: Chief Minister Mohammad Sohail Afridi said here on Sunday that 27th Amendment, to be passed by those having only 17 seats in National Assembly, flattened democracy and the Constitution. He was talking to journalists at Karkhano station of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). He said that not a single army general was sentenced in the country. He added that if …

ISLAMABAD: A Senate session has been convened today — on a Sunday in a rare move — with a one-point agenda to deliberate on the bill for the 27th Constitutional Amendment. The 26-page Constitution (Twenty-Seventh Amendment) Act, 2025 was tabled in the Senate yesterday amid the opposition’s outcry over the pace and scope of the proposed changes, just hours after …

QUETTA: Authorities in Quetta blocked major roads and suspended internet services on Friday after denying permission for a public meeting by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), prompting the party to cancel its event and condemn the move. The district administration erected barbed wire fences and used trucks and large containers to block all routes leading toward the planned venue at the …

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on Friday condemned remarks by the province’s Chief Minister, Sohail Afridi, “disparaging the security forces and assailing counter-terrorism operations in KP.” Speaking to reporters outside Adiala Jail a day prior, the CM alleged that security forces in KP would bring dogs into mosques and tie them down there, thereby violating the sanctity of …

ISLAMABAD: A Faisalabad anti-terrorism court (ATC) sent Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) chief Sahibzada Mohammad Hamid Raza to jail on Friday, directing that he serve his 10-year jail term in a case pertaining to violent protests in the country on May 9, 2023. Hamid was convicted in the case along with several PTI leaders on July 31. According to his brother, …

ISLAMABAD: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi on Thursday sought meetings with the chief justice of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and with PTI’s party’s patron-in-chief Imran Khan but failed. Speaking to journalists outside the IHC, he said he had wished to ask the chief justice who was “pressurising the courts”. He complained that PTI cases were not being scheduled …