GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly on Monday elected Khalid Khurshid Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf as chief minister and Pakistan Peoples Party’s Amjad Hussain as leader of the opposition. Speaker Amjad Hussain Zaidi chaired the assembly session held to elect the chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan. Mr. Khan, who was fielded by the PTI-Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen alliance, and […]
PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz on Monday said that she is not afraid of being arrested. As she has imprisoned twice before without committing any crime. She was speaking to journalists before leaving Lahore for Multan to attend the Pakistan Democratic Movement’s (PDM) rally. Despite the PTI-led government’s efforts to stop public gatherings because of the […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan and his cabinet members on Saturday lambasted the opposition alliance, Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), for moving ahead with tomorrow’s rally in Peshawar despite the threat of Covid-19. “The same PDM members who had wanted a strict lockdown and criticized me earlier [are] now playing reckless politics with people’s safety,” said the […]
;ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan announced to suspend political gatherings and rallies across the country as part of his government’s measures to contain the spread of the second wave of Covid-19. “We have decided to suspend rallies countrywide and we [Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf] have suspended our own [rally] and would ask others [parties] to do […]
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice-president Maryam Nawaz has claimed that the ‘establishment‘ has contacted individuals near to her for dialogue, however, she has not been contacted directly. In an interview with the British news channel, the PML-N supremo’s daughter clarified that she was not against state institutions, however, it is her belief that if the […]
LAHORE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was declared an absconder and had non-bailable arrest warrants issued against him on Tuesday in the illegal plot allotment case that also includes Jang group Editor-in-chief Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman and others as accused. Accountability Court judge Asad Ali while presiding over the hearing of the case also ordered the confiscation […]
;ISLAMABAD: Senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader and former information minister Qamar Zaman Kaira has tested positive for the novel coronavirus; while he was on the campaign trail for the upcoming polls in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B). According to family sources, the PPP leader has reached Islamabad from G-B and has quarantined himself for 15 days. Kaira […]
An Islamabad anti-terrorism court on Thursday acquitted Prime Minister Imran Khan in the 2014 Parliament House attack case. The verdict was announced by ATC Judge Raja Jawad Abbas Hassan. The court also decided that Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood, and Planning Minister Asad Umar, who have been […]
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) agreed to file new references against PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, Ahsan Iqbal, former principal secretary to ex-pm Nawaz, Fawad Hasan Fawad, and others. The development took place at the NAB Executive Board meeting on Thursday during which the anti-graft body approved four investigations, read a statement from the bureau. According […]
ISLAMABAD: The government is hopeful Nawaz Sharif will be back in Pakistan soon to answer for the corruption charges against him. Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior and Accountability Shahzad Akbar said on Wednesday that the government was working with the British authorities to finalize modalities for Nawaz’s return, while Minister for Science and […]
