The FIA has issued a challan in a cipher case in which PTI Chairman Qureshi is the primary culprit.
ISLAMABAD – The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) charged the PTI chairman and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a prominent party leader and former foreign minister, with violating the Official Secrets Act and filed a challan before the special court hearing the case. According to sources, the country’s top agency has demanded thatRead More →
Israel and Saudi Arabia are working on a ‘framework’ agreement: US
Washington (AFP) – The White House announced on Friday that Israel and Saudi Arabia are nearing an agreement to normalize relations after decades of enmity. President Joe Biden hopes to alter the Middle East — and score an election-year diplomatic success—by gaining Saudi Arabia’s recognition of the Jewish state, whichRead More →
PPP asks that the ECP declare the precise date of the upcoming elections.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Thursday that the PPP wants the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to provide an accurate date for holding general elections in a transparent way. In an interview with a private news station, he stated that political parties had reachedRead More →
Imran Khan’s lawyer and a PML-N senator transform a television broadcast into a wrestling ring.
Political talk programs have witnessed intense argument between opponents, but one such event on a private television station devolved into a wrestling ring between leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). Sher Afzal Khan Marwat, the lawyer for PTI Chairman Imran Khan, and PML-N SenatorRead More →
After meeting Zardari, “important” political personalities join the PPP
LAHORE — Following a meeting with Co-Chairman and former President Asif Ali Zardari, several “important personalities” expressed their willingness to join the People’s Party (PPP). Mustansar Jabbar Manj of Gujranwala and Chaudhry Rizwan of Sheikhupura have declared their desire to join the PPP. Manj and Rizwan were welcomed into theRead More →
The LHC has spoken out against the ECP holding elections next year.
LAHORE – The Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) plan to hold elections in the last week of January next year has been challenged in the Lahore High Court.On Wednesday, a local attorney filed a miscellaneous application in the Supreme Court. The petitioner claims that the ECP is in violation ofRead More →
The ECP publishes preliminary delimitation lists in advance of the general elections.
ISLAMABAD – On Wednesday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued preliminary delimitation lists. The ECP notified the public in a news statement released today that the preliminary delimitation report, together with Form 5 lists, had been placed on the commission’s website, along with maps of the initial delimitation. TheRead More →
Conflict in Yemen threatens peace talks
RIYADH Reuters: Both parties in Yemen’s eight-year war have accused one another of carrying out assaults that disrupted a brief respite in hostilities and jeopardized peace negotiations that had been progressing. Since 2015, the Houthi movement in Yemen has fought a Saudi-led coalition in a war that has claimed hundredsRead More →
LHC grants Rawalpindi RPO one week for recuperation and Sh Rashid’s release.
RAWALPINDI – The Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench issued an order on Tuesday directing the regional police officer (RPO) in Rawalpindi to locate and free the former interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed as soon as possible and to provide a report on the matter to the court within a week.Read More →