The captain of Australia, Pat Cummins, talked about the crucial delivery that dismissed former Pakistan captain Babar Azam during the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Using a back-of-a-length delivery that swung inwards just outside off-stump, Cummins was able to get past Azam’s defenses and rattle the stumps. Cummins highlighted the rarity of […]
The postponement of the trial court’s decision against PTI Chairman Imran Khan in the Toshakhana case, Justice Athar Minallah of the Supreme Court said on Wednesday, cannot reverse his disqualification. The court made these comments at the hearing of the PTI chief’s petition to have his conviction in the Toshakhana case suspended so that he […]
Chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, unveiled a 10-point platform on Wednesday, February 8th, to begin his party’s election campaign. Speaking at a party event in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh on the sixteenth anniversary of his mother Benazir Bhutto’s passing, Bilawal outlined the party’s platform for the elections that will take place on […]
Imran Khan, the founder of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), attempted to overturn the trial court’s decision and his conviction in the Toshakhana case on Tuesday by knocking on the Supreme Court’s (SC) door once more. After correcting the earlier objections presented by the Supreme Court Registrar’s Office, the PTI leader’s attorneys filed an appeal against […]
For the polls scheduled for February 8, 28,626 candidates have filed their nomination papers for 1,085 general and reserved seats in national and provincial assemblies around the nation. In order to compete for 266 general seats in the National Assembly, at least 7,713 candidates—including 471 women—submitted their nominations, according to information released by the Election […]
The benchmark index fell more than 2,500 points on Tuesday, marking the largest one-day fall on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). Analysts blamed the decline on a year-end correction. According to the PSX website, the KSE-100 dropped to a low of 59,170.97 points, down 2,534.12 points or 4.11%, from the previous closing of 61,705.09 points. […]
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was given temporary reprieve by the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday. This allowed the party to once again use the “bat” as its electoral symbol until the electoral Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) order barring intra-party polls was finally decided upon. The court postponed the hearing until the conclusion of the […]
Former Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan declared on Friday that the party would file a high court appeal against the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision to remove the party’s iconic election symbol, the “bat,” calling it a “conspiracy” against the former ruling party. A five-member ECP bench led by Chief electoral […]
On Friday evening, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lost its famous “bat” symbol, which represents Imran Khan, the party’s founder, playing cricket. This was done by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). A five-member ECP bench led by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja pronounced the PTI’s intra-party elections illegal, announcing its reserved ruling. The 11-page […]
According to a July 2018 Gallup poll, 63 percent of PTI voters claimed they would not vote if Imran Khan were not the party’s chairman. “Would you vote for such a party if Imran Khan is not elected chairman of Tehreek-e-Insaf but the party still stands in the election?” was the survey’s question. 37% of […]
