The petitioner, Brig (retd) Ali Khan, moved the top court to invalidate the elections scheduled for February 8, but Khan did not appear for the hearing. The Supreme Court voiced its disapproval of Khan’s actions on Monday. The petition was considered by a three-judge panel that included Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Musarrat Hilali, and […]
Salman Akram Raja, a prominent lawyer and PTI politician, was taken into custody on Saturday in Lahore after the party denounced suspected election manipulation on February 8. Raja, surrounded by police, security officers, and media representatives, declared he stood “with the people of Pakistan” while being led by the police to their car. “I am […]
“I believe Gen [Qamar Javed] Bajwa and Lt Gen Faiz [Hameed] were responsible for rigging the 2018 general polls,” the JUI-F chief had said in an interview with a private TV channel. A day earlier, Maulana Fazlur Rehman held former army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and ex-spymaster Lt Gen Faiz Hameed, who was the […]
Gohar Ali Khan, flanked by party leader Sher Afzal Marwat and Mashal Yousafzai, said that the PTI founder had approved the names of Mian Aslam Iqbal and Salar Khan as the party’s candidates for CM Punjab and CM Balochistan slots respectively. Gohar Ali Khan also revealed that Aqibullah Khan will be PTI’s candidate for Speaker […]
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has nominated former minister Omar Ayub Khan for prime minister amid growing political unrest and a race among political groups to secure government formation in Pakistan. Asad Qaiser, the former speaker of the National Assembly, made this announcement, saying that Omar Ayub Khan had been selected as the party’s nominee for […]
Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf, declared on Tuesday that his party had secured 180 seats nationwide and that the party’s nominee for prime minister would be named by Thursday. He revealed that the PTI had won all three NA seats in Islamabad and four more seats in Balochistan in […]
Shehbaz Sharif, the president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has stated that independent candidates who are supported by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) are able to form a government in the center if they hold the necessary number of seats in the National Assembly. At a press conference on Tuesday in Islamabad, he declared, “PTI-sponsored candidates […]
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Sunday stayed the process of consolidation (of results) in NA-15, Mansehra, NA-47, ICT, and NA-48, ICT, till the outcome of the petitions filed by ex-PM Nawaz Sharif, Muhammad Ali Bokhari and Shoaib Shaheen respectively and sought reports from the concerned returning officers (ROs). The orders in the petitions were […]
Uncertainty persisted on Monday, days after the nation’s elections, following the shocking announcements of three prominent political figures: Sirajul Haq of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Pervez Khattak, the Central Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Parliamentarians (PTI-P), and Jahangir Khan Tareen, the head of the Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP). Along with Siraj, Tareen and Khattak made the decision to […]
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan Sunday hinted at sitting on the opposition benches instead of compromising on the party position. He said they were holding talks and within a day or two, it would be decided which party was to be joined, and “we would also get allotted reserved seats”. “We would […]
