ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday filed a petition before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeking judicial intervention in the affairs of the Rawalpindi Central Jail, saying the prison is being managed by officials of an intelligence agency. In the petition filed through his counsel Shoaib Shaheen, Mr Khan said that two intelligence officials virtually control the prison. …
ISLAMABAD: In a significant development, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Secretary General Omar Ayub Khan resigned from his party positions, lending credence to reports of fissures within the party ranks. Sources in the PTI told Dawn that Omar Ayub, who is also leader of the opposition in the National Assembly, submitted his resignation on June 22, which has been accepted by founding chairman Imran Khan. The …
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s fresh offer to the opposition PTI for a dialogue on Wednesday met with a strong rebuke, as the latter made it conditional with the release of the party’s founding chairman Imran Khan and other party leaders and activists. “If any hardships are being faced by your [PTI’s] founder in jail, then [let’s] talk about them,” said PM …
PESHAWAR: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf-sponsored “tribal peace jirga” on Wednesday vehemently opposed the government’s plans to launch a military offensive against terrorists and insisted that the Operation Azm-i-Istehkam was a bid to occupy minerals in the Pakhtun belt. Chief of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party Mehmood Khan Achakzai, who also heads a coalition of six opposition parties under the banner of …
ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday said that a resolution passed by the US House of Representatives in support of democracy in Pakistan stemmed from an “incomplete understanding” of the country’s political situation and electoral process. In a significant display of bipartisan support, the US House of Representatives has passed a resolution expressing robust support for democracy in Pakistan …
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday directed a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to recover the allegedly abducted two brothers of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf social media head Azhar Mashwani by June 27. Earlier, JIT head DIG Investigation Zeeshan Asghar and its members appeared before the court. Justice Syed Shahbaz Ali Rizvi was hearing a petition filed by Mashwani’s father Habibur Rehman for the …
ISLAMABAD: As the Supreme Court on Monday took up the case of reserved seats, Justice Munib Akhtar observed that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was “channelising returned candidates of a political party into the category of ‘independents’”. “Are we going to be so blinded by the harsh political realities […] that if the ECP, on its own cascades of …
ISLAMABAD: Amid rumours that efforts are going on to bring Maulana Fazlur Rehman into the coalition government, former speaker of National Assembly Asad Qaiser reached the residence of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief in Islamabad and claimed he discussed with him the formation of a political committee to resolve issues with JUI-F. After the meeting with the JUI-F chief, Mr Qaiser informed the media …
ISLAMABAD: As the Supreme Court resumes hearing on Monday (tomorrow) the Sunni Ittehad Council’s (SIC) challenge to the Peshawar High Court’s March 14 verdict, the Election Commission of Pakistan on Saturday justified its decision to deny the party reserved seats for women and non-Muslims. In a concise statement furnished before the apex court through senior counsel Sikandar Bashir Mohmand, the ECP argued that …
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: An anti-terrorism court here on Saturday acquitted Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Khan Gandapur, his brother and two others in a decade-old case about a suicide attack on the then provincial law minister, Israrullah Khan Gandapur. Judge Sohail Sheraz pronounced acquittal of Mr Gandapur, his brother and mayor of Dera Ismail Khan city Umar Amin Gandapur, Maizullah and Ali Mer …