ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani government has officially ended its negotiation process with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party after PTI withdrew from the talks and rejected a renewed offer by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Express News reported. Senator Irfan Siddiqui, the spokesperson for the government’s negotiation committee and a leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), […]
KARACHI — The Pakistan Cricket Board has dismissed speculations of removing legendary cricketer Imran Khan’s name from an enclosure at the recently renovated Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Speculations were doing rounds that PCB had removed the name of the 1992 World Cup winning captain from one of the enclosures at the stadium due to current […]
ISLAMABAD — Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Thursday the government was ready to form a parliamentary committee to advance talks with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), a couple of days after the latter quit negotiations with the government. The PTI abruptly quit the talks after three meetings, arguing that the government was not genuinely interested in addressing […]
ISLAMABAD — A provincial leader of jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party said on Thursday that it would hold a public rally in the Swabi area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on February 8 – the day marks the first anniversary of the controversial general elections of last year. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa unit chief, Junaid Akbar, said […]
ISLAMABAD — The dialogue process between the government and opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ran aground on Tuesday after jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party refused to join a scheduled huddle aiming to defuse the prevailing political tension in the country. National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq, who had fixed the meeting at the request of government negotiators, […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, have challenged their conviction in the £190 million case in the Islamabad High Court (IHC). An accountability court in Islamabad convicted the former prime minister and the former first lady in the £190 million case in a much-anticipated ruling earlier this month. […]
RAWALPINDI — Amid ambiguity surrounding the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s decision to call off the dialogue process with the government, PTI founder Imran Khan on Saturday demanded a meeting with his party’s negotiation committee ahead of the next round of talks scheduled for January 28. Sources told Geo News that the incarcerated former prime minister, during a […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan former PM Imran Khan said that neither he nor his wife Bushra Bibi benefitted financially from the Al-Qadir Trust case, and that business tycoon Malik Riaz could testify that he was the only prime minister who “never sought anything from him for personal or financial gain”. Imran and Bushra were convicted last […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has called off negotiations with the government due to its failure to establish a judicial commission within the seven-day period, according to PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan. Speaking to the media outside Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, Barrister Gohar said that the party’s legal team, including himself, met […]
ISLAMABAD — Did the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the property tycoon finalise the £190 million repatriation deal independently without facilitation by Imran Khan’s government? Official records, including the sealed note approved by the cabinet, show otherwise. Matching travel records of the then-special assistant to prime minister (SAPM) Mirza Shahzad Akbar to the UK with […]
