LAHORE — Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says the real task for Pakistan is not just winning the ICC Champions Trophy but also defeat arch-rivals India in Dubai on February 23. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony of the renovated and upgraded Gaddafi stadium on Friday night, Sharif said the players must give their best against India. […]
ISLAMABAD — The Pakistan Federal Cabinet has reportedly approved the deployment of the military to provide security for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy 2025, ensuring the safety of the event. The decision was made under Article 245 of the Constitution, which authorises the military’s involvement in security matters, Express News cited sources. As part of […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has written a “second open letter” to Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir, stressing that the country’s biggest political party is being “targeted”. “I wrote an open letter to the Army Chief (you) with sincere intentions for the betterment of the country and the nation, […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders and workers have been arrested in Multan and Muzaffarabad as the party holds rallies nationwide to mark February 8 as ‘Black Day,’ the anniversary of last year’s controversial elections. In Multan, PTI leaders Meher Bano Qureshi, Zahid Bahar Hashmi, and Dalir Meher were detained by police at Pull Chatta […]
BEIJING — Visiting Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has broached the Kashmir issue during his talks with the Chinese President Xi Jinping, even as the two countries reaffirmed the importance of their defence cooperation in maintaining “strategic balance” in the region. “The Pakistani side briefed the Chinese side on the latest developments in the situation […]
ISLAMABAD — The Pakistan government on Friday extended a fresh invitation for talks to Imran Khan’s party, a day before its planned protest against alleged election rigging last year. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) claims that it had won the general elections held on Feb 8, 2024, but was robbed of its mandate through massive rigging, an […]
LAHORE — An anti-corruption court in Lahore on Thursday acquitted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz in the Ramzan Sugar Mills case. Anti-Corruption Court Judge Sardar Iqbal Dogar announced the verdict, which was reserved on Monday. The said case pertains to allegations accusing PM Shehbaz, then-Punjab chief minister, of misuse of authority […]
KARAK — In a brazen overnight assault, militants attacked a police checkpost in Karak district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the early hours of Thursday, killing at least three police personnel and injuring six others, authorities confirmed. The attackers, armed with heavy weapons, launched a barrage of gunfire at the checkpost in the Bahadurkhel area […]
ISLAMABAD — As the PTI doubled down on purported ‘remedial measures’ proposed by party founder Imran Khan in a letter to the army chief, the security sources on Tuesday claimed that the chief of army staff had not received any sort of letter from the incarcerated former prime minister. As per the letter, which has […]
ISLAMABAD — Terming the February 8, 2024 general elections as “rigged”, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Tuesday reiterated his call for fresh elections in the country. The JUI-F chief made the remarks after attending a dinner hosted by PTI senior leader and former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser. Leaders from the opposition […]