ISLAMABAD: forensic team has arrived at Adiala Jail to conduct a polygraph test on Imran Khan in connection with the events of 9 May. The Lahore police team, led by DSP Javed and consisting of Inspector Rana Akmal, Rana Arham, Alam Langrial, Rana Muneer, and Muhammad Ali, arrived at the prison premesis to conduct the tests. They were accompanied by experts …
ISLAMABAD: The PTI held a three-hour “symbolic hunger strike” outside Parliament House on Tuesday, demanding the National Assembly speaker’s intervention on actions against the party and its leaders. Earlier this month, while speaking to reporters in Adiala Jail, incarcerated former premier Imran Khan had said he was mulling the decision to go on a hunger strike if justice was denied to him. …
LAHORE: The legal team of incarcerated PTI founding chairman Imran Khan on Monday withdrew his petitions against the denial of pre-arrest bail in May 9 riots cases related to the burning of Jinnah House, Askari Tower, and Shadman police station. While hearing the petition, a two-member bench of the Lahore High Court comprising Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh and Justice Anwarul …
ISLAMABAD: The Interior Ministry on Monday confirmed the arrest of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) members Ahmed Waqas Janjua and Raoof Hasan, announcing the formation of a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe ‘anti-state propaganda.’ According to a statement issued by the ministry’s spokesperson, Islamabad Police arrested PTI leader Ahmed Waqas Janjua. Based on initial investigations, Islamabad Police, along with the Federal …
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General and Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Omar Ayub Khan criticized the current government, labelling the Director-General of the Inter-Services Public Relations’ (DG ISPR) recent press briefing as a sign of political failure. Speaking alongside PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar on Monday, Ayub addressed the media in Islamabad, emphasizing the dire economic situation and …
ISLAMABAD: The military on Monday clarified that operation Azm-e-Istehkam is not a military operation but a counter-terrorism campaign, saying a strong lobby does not want the National Action Plan (NAP) to succeed. “Comparing Azm-e-Istehkam to past operations like Zarb-e-Azb and Rah-e-Nijat is not appropriate,” DG ISPR Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry told a news conference in Rawalpindi. “Our problem is …
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Monday extended PTI founder Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi’s physical remand for seven days in a new Toshakhana case. Imran, 71, has been imprisoned at the Adiala Jail for almost a year upon his conviction in four cases — two Toshakhana references, the cipher case, and the Iddat case, in which his wife, …
ISLAMABAD: PTI founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi did not appear before a team of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Sunday, which went to Adiala Jail to investigate them in the fresh Toshakhana case against them. According to media reports, the NAB team, headed by Investigation Officer Mustansar Shah, waited for more than two hours in the prison, but the …
LAHORE: Punjab Governor Sardar Saleem Haider Khan has said that personally he considers that proscribing any political party is inappropriate, while Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has chided those elements who find opportunity in uncertain political conditions in the country. Talking to the media on Sunday, Governor Khan said that the PML-N took a unilateral decision of proscribing the PTI and …
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Atta Tarar, on Sunday accused the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of orchestrating violence during the Bannu peace march. “PTI has a history of violent politics. They seek casualties to blame on security forces, acting more like a terrorist organisation than a political party. I call them TTP-PTI,” Tarar said during a press conference in …