Shortly after obtaining bail in 11 other connected cases, including the GHQ attack case, Sheikh Rashid, the chairman of the Awami Muslim League (AML), was taken into custody on Tuesday in connection with the May 9 riots. A day earlier, the court had reserved judgment on the bail requests of twenty-four individuals, including Rashid and […]
Former interior minister and Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid has been taken into custody from outside a courtroom after a local court in Rawalpindi rejected his bail in a case related to the May 9 riots, Geo News reported on Tuesday. A case was registered against Rashid for vandalism at the Metro bus […]
The military trials of most of 103 civilians, allegedly involved in the 9 May attacks, have almost been completed, it is learned. An informed government source confided to The News that in around 90 percent of such cases, the suspects have been found involved in the May 9 attacks on military installations. However, the verdicts […]
Imran Khan, the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and a former prime minister, claimed that the present changes in the nation are a result of the “London Plan.” He asserted that the Supreme Court is included in this scheme, implying that the court is functioning in accordance with the secret agreement. In an unofficial interview […]
In a scathing criticism of the former ruling party Pakistan Tehreeke-e-Insaf (PTI) amid its electoral symbol woes, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice-President Maryam Nawaz Monday said that a “terrorist group” could not be given a political party’s electoral symbol, Geo News reported. Kicking off the party’s election campaign for the upcoming February 8 polls, […]
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) suffered a significant blow just before the polls on February 8 when the Supreme Court on Saturday overturned the Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) January 10 ruling, eliminating the party’s famous “bat” emblem. Following a full day of hearings, a three-judge panel led by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa […]
Punjabi province and national assembly elections have their party candidates announced by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN). There are 36 contenders, including husband-wife, father-son, father-in-law, brother-in-law, mother-son, and uncle-nephew relationships. Nawaz Sharif and his daughter will run from Lahore in the National Assembly elections. In a similar vein, Shehbaz Sharif will run in the National […]
With the general elections inching closer, incarcerated Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan Saturday revealed he was unaware of the distribution of the party tickets among the candidates. The PTI founder made the remarks during his interaction with party workers in Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail after the hearing of the Toshakhana case, for which he has […]
Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa expressed grave concern over the “attack” at Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Gohar Ali Khan’s residence, warning that “heads may roll”. Gohar got to know about the house raid while he was assisting PTI’s Barrister Zafar Ali during a hearing about the party’s bat allotment symbol at the Supreme Court earlier […]
As the controversy surrounding Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) intra-party elections and iconic electoral symbol of a cricket bat deepens, Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa remarked on Friday that the party will have to “face consequences if the intra-party polls don’t align with the law. The remark came during the hearing of hearing of […]
