As Pakistan approaches the vital general elections that are set for February of next year, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) questioned the impartiality of the caretaker administration on Friday. Judge Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb of the IHC chastised the interim administration, accusing it of overseeing a “terrible system” in the nation. “The caretaker setup is creating […]
Created by Israeli firm NSO Group and sold to governments around the world, Pegasus software can be used to access a phone’s messages and emails, peruse photos, eavesdrop on calls, track locations, and even film the owner with the camera. Amnesty said journalists Siddharth Varadarajan of The Wire and Anand Mangnale of The Organized Crime […]
The trial of former prime minister Imran Khan in the Cypher case was postponed till January 11 by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday, with the reason given being “legal errors”. The brief ruling was made by Justice Miangul Hasan Aurangzeb in response to a plea filed by Imran contesting the trial. Today’s sessions […]
Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, the acting prime minister, declared on Thursday that all New Year’s festivities would be outlawed nationwide in support of the Palestinian people, who are currently experiencing the worst acts of violence from Israel since October 7. Pakistan has consistently shown support for the marginalized Palestinians in international fora and denounced Israel’s thousands-of-fathom slaughter. […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Supreme Court (SC) granted bail to former prime minister Imran Khan and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Friday in the cipher case. The bail has been granted against a surety bond of Rs100,000. A three-member bench of the SC comprising acting Chief Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, Justice Athar Minallah, and Justice […]
“In an interview with Canadian Broadcasting Corp. I think there is a beginning of an understanding that they can’t bluster their way through this and there is an openness to collaborating in a way that perhaps they were less open before,” Trudeau stated. “There’s an understanding that maybe, maybe just churning out attacks against Canada […]
Vladimir Putin declared on Friday that he will seek the presidency once more in the March 2024 elections, so securing his rule until at least 2030, during a ceremony held at Russia’s official residence, the Kremlin. Residents of the seized Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson—annexed by Russia during the conflict—will also be […]
