KARACHI – Asad Umar, a former federal minister, has refuted the reports of his imprisonment. Asad Umar, a senior PTI politician, said that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had not actually detained him and that the story of his detention was inaccurate. Asad Umar said in an interview with aRead More →
ISLAMABAD – President Dr Arif Alvi handed over the services of his secretary Waqar Ahmed to the Establishment Division on Monday, as the debate over the signing of laws pertaining to the Official Secrets Act and the Army Act heated up. “In light of yesterday’s definite statement, President’s Secretariat hasRead More →
LAHORE – The Punjab President of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, was not to be arrested in any unnamed case, according to a single bench decision that was restored by the Lahore High Court on Monday. After hearing arguments about the issue of giving bail to former chiefRead More →
ISLAMABAD – On Monday, a special court was constituted under the Official Secrets Act (OSA). The court’s new responsibility has been handed over to Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Abul Hasnat, who will consider cases brought under the OSA. This is Islamabad’s first and only court dedicated to OSA matters. Hearings underRead More →
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Former US President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he will boycott the forthcoming Republican primary debates, citing his enormous lead in surveys as proof that he is already well-known and liked by Americans ahead of the 2024 race. Trump has been indicating for monthsRead More →
ISLAMABAD – Today (Monday), Caretaker Prime Minister Anwar Haq Kakar will visit the damaged regions of Faisalabad’s Jaranwala tehsil. Mohsin Naqvi, the temporary chief minister of Punjab, and federal ministers will accompany the premier. According to sources, the federal minister for human rights, Khalil George, has been directed to startRead More →
ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi denied signing the Official Secrets (Amendment) Bill, 2023, and the Pakistan Army (Amendment) Bill, 2023 on Sunday, saying that his staff “undermined” his instructions. Alvi’s comments came a day after he agreed to the two bills on the microblogging network X, formerly known as Twitter. “AsRead More →
LAHORE: PML-N spokeswoman Marriyum Aurangzeb said that former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif will go to London on Sunday (today) to meet with party leader Nawaz Sharif. The PML-N president will go to Lahore, according to a post by Marriyum Aurangzeb on X, previously known as Twitter, and will meet withRead More →
ISLAMABAD: Asad Umar, the former secretary-general of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has been detained, according to sources cited by A News on Sunday. After learning that the former prime minister was deliberately involved in abusing the confidential document, an investigation by the FIA’s counter-terrorism department led to the case beingRead More →
ISLAMABAD: According to A News, President Dr. Arif Alvi has denied signing the Pakistan Army Act (Amendment) Bill of 2023 and the Official Secrets (Amendment) Bill of 2023. “To render the bills useless, I instructed my employees to return them unsigned within the allotted period. I repeatedly asked them ifRead More →
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