Category: Pakistan News
Caretaker Government: Pakistan dissolves parliament as election-delay speculation mounts
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan dissolved the national parliament as Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif moves to hand over power to a caretaker government to lead elections while his…
Pakistan PM Shehbaz writes to President for dissolution of NA, blames ex-PM Imran for his govt’s failures
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif wrote to President Arif Alvi on Wednesday night calling for the dissolution of the National Assembly three days before…
Pakistan: Pakistan PM announces to auction Toshakahana gifts
ISLAMABAD: A few days after the verdict on the Toshakahana case, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced an auction of all the gifts kept in…
Pakistan poll panel disqualifies Imran from electoral politics for 5 years
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan disqualified former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday from electoral politics for five years following his conviction last week…
Polls unlikely this year: Pak ministers
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s home and defence ministers spoke on Tuesday — a day before the dissolution of the National Assembly by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif —…
Pakistan’s poll panel disqualifies jailed former PM Imran Khan for 5 years
NEW DELHI: In a fresh setback for Imran Khan, Pakistan‘s top election body on Tuesday disqualified the jailed former prime minister for five years after…
Over 200 Imran Khan supporters arrested from Pakistan’s Punjab since his arrest: Police
LAHORE: More than 200 supporters of Imran Khan, including those who resisted the former prime minister’s arrest in a corruption case, have been arrested across…
Pakistan extends visa of Indian woman who crossed border to marry her Facebook friend
PESHAWAR: Pakistan has extended by one year the visa of a 34-year-old Indian mother of two children who travelled to a remote village in the…
Imran Khan: Imran Khan wants a transfer from his ‘tiny, dirty’ jail cell
ISLAMABAD: Jailed former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said he’s been kept in a jail cell meant for terrorists and is seeking a court order…
Pak ex-PM Imran Khan kept in bug-infested jail cell, given C-class facilities: Report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has been kept in a small bug-infested cell with an open washroom in the high-security Attock jail after…