The United States’ top intelligence official has accused Russia and Iran of obtaining US voter information and making moves to influence public opinion ahead of the 2020 presidential election. John Ratcliffe, director of National Intelligence, made the announcement at a hastily arranged news conference on Wednesday; that also included FBI Director Chris Wray. The announcement […]
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz has said that it is unfortunate that the opposition is trying to mislead the people of Pakistan but it will not succeed in its nefarious designs. “The opposition tried its level best to politicize the Karachi incident; the registration of a case against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) […]
LAHORE: An accountability court on Tuesday sent Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Shehbaz Sharif to Kot Lakhpat Jail on judicial remand in the money laundering and assets beyond means case. The court directed jail authorities to present the PML-N president before it on the next hearing on October 27. National Accountability Bureau […]
ISLAMABAD: A day after the 11-party Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) held its power show in Karachi against the incumbent government, Prime Minister Imran Khan has vowed to bring all corruption cases to their logical conclusion, saying that the opposition will no longer get any concessions and lawbreakers will be dealt with strictly. “There will be […]
Maryam Nawaz tweeted out that police allegedly barged into her hotel room and arrested Captain Safdar. Police broke my room door at the hotel I was staying at in Karachi and arrested Capt. Safdar. — Maryam Nawaz Sharif (@MaryamNSharif) October 19, 2020 Few hours after her tweet out of the blue, she held a press […]
The Judicial Magistrate East has approved Captain (retd) Safdar’s bail-in “violating the sanctity of Mazar-e-Quaid” case and instructed him to submit surety bonds worth Rs100,000. The development comes shortly after PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz, addressing a press conference, had said that her husband, Safdar, had been released on bail. Safdar had been arrested Monday […]
Rahul Gandhi, leader of India’s Congress Party yet again criticized the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying ‘even Pakistan and Afghanistan handled Covid better than India’. He made these remarks in a tweet, accompanied by a graph of International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) gross domestic product (GDP) projections for several countries […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan said that giving an ‘NRO’ to his opponents is an ‘easy path’ for him to take but it is the ‘path to destruction’. “We have to make difficult decisions and difficult decisions take us forward,” PM Imran Khan said while addressing a ceremony at NUST, Islamabad. He said the country is […]
PM Imran Khan inaugurated PM’s Tiger Force portal in Islamabad on Saturday. Addressing the convention of Tiger Force, the PM Imran said Pakistani nation has a unique potential of welfare initiatives. He said Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital was a big challenge but entire nation extended cooperation particularly youth. While giving a brief introduction of Tiger […]
Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Party secured the victory again in the New Zealand elections on Saturday as voters rewarded her for a decisive response to Covid-19. The polls opened at 09:00 local time (20:00 GMT Friday) and closed at 19:00. More than a million people had already voted in early polling which opened up on 3 […]
