Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. File | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday (November 29, 2024) announced the formation of a task force, to be led by Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, to identify the perpetrators of chaos during a protest by jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party earlier in the week. … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of protesters have been shot and thousands arrested during protests that roiled Pakistan’s capital this week, provincial chief minister Ali Amin Gandapur, a key aide to former Prime Minister Imran Khan, said on Wednesday. Police had earlier said no lethal arms were used in Tuesday night’s operation and that hundreds of protesters had … Read more
Supporters and activists of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party take part in a protest in Islamabad on October 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP The mobile phone services remained suspended in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad for the third day, continuing on Sunday (October 6, 2024) amid the ongoing … Read more
Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan’s jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan has refused to undergo polygraph and voice matching tests as part of an investigation by Lahore police in connection with a dozen cases related to the unprecedented May 9 riots last year. A 12-member forensic team reached Adiala … Read more
Islamabad: The Pakistan government will ban jailed former prime minister Imran Khan‘s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party for its alleged involvement in anti-state activities, it was announced on Monday. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar announced that the federal government has decided to ban the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), alleging that the former ruling party was involved in anti-state activities, … Read more
Islamabad: Pakistan‘s cash-strapped government has highlighted almost a dozen critical risks to next year’s budget and medium-term outlook, including lower than estimated economic growth, unexpected climatic or natural disasters as well as continuing poor performance of state-owned entities. In a written statement on the fiscal risks submitted to Parliament, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb and Secretary … Read more
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Pakistani court has rejected a petition seeking the disqualification of former prime minister Imran Khan for concealing his alleged daughter Tyrian White while submitting his nomination papers for the 2018 general elections. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) took up the petition on May … Read more
Why are the May 9 protests, which occurred in 2023, an important event with implications for civil-military relations in Pakistan?Even though the military remains the final arbiter in Pakistan to determine the course of politics, the May 9 protests have made it more difficult and challenging than ever for it to manage the guided democracy. … Read more
Actor Imran Khan has shared in a recent interview that he was set to make his comeback in Abbas Tyrewala’s spy thriller. However, the project has been put on the back burner, and it might be shelved forever. The actor, who has worked in films like ‘Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na’ and ‘Delhi Belly’, said … Read more
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that his wife, Bushra Bibi, was given food mixed with “toilet cleaner,” reported Pakistan-based The Express Tribune. During the hearing of the £190 million corruption case in Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail on Friday, Imran Khan told Judge Nasir Javed Rana that additional walls had been erected in the … Read more