Ahead of the 77th Independence Day celebration in Pakistan on August 14, several political activists and youth organisations in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) have decided to observe it as “Black Day” as a mark of protest against the atrocities of the Pakistan government.
According to a report from the news...
Last Saturday, police in Pakistan arrested former prime minister Imran Khan after a court sentenced him to three years in prison. He was accused of buying and selling state gifts worth around US$500,000 during his premiership from 2018-22.
Khan, a former Pakistan cricket captain turned politician, was taken into custody in May by paramilitary...
Fifty miles—and five years—separate Imran Khan’s greatest political triumph and the nadir, for now, of his political career. At one end is Parliament House in Islamabad, where the assembly that elected him prime minister of Pakistan in 2018 wrapped up its term on August 9th, with power due to...
On August 9, Pakistan’s 15th National Assembly (NA) was dissolved by the country’s president upon Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s advice. The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) coalition federal government, which Sharif sat atop for the past 16 months, comprised the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) – eponymous with Sharif’s elder brother...
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The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday declined the immediate suspension of the sentence handed to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan in the Toshakhana case.
A two-member bench, led by Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and including Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, heard the PTI chief’s appeal against his conviction, and...
Recently, Canadian Baloch leader and head of Baloch People’s Congress (BPC) Dr Naela Quadri Baloch was in Europe recently to highlight the brutalities committed by the Pakistani Army against the common Baloch people. She met with former Dutch MP and activist, Harry Van Bommel and requested him to highlight...
The outgoing government of Pakistan has passed a raft of legislation during the last 30 days. Many parliamentarians have complained that some of those Bills were not properly debated and oftentimes not even referred to parliamentary committees – sparking fears about the setting of negative precedents in the South Asian country.
At...
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is set to dissolve parliament days before his term expires at the end of the week, a development that comes shortly after popular former leader Imran Khan was imprisoned in a graft case.
“I will dissolve my government and the National Assembly on August 9,”...
In the most recent attack on law enforcement in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a police vehicle in Peshawar’s Badaber was attacked, due to which one policeman embraced martyrdom and two others received injuries.
After the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) broke its truce with Islamabad, a number of terror attacks occurred in the...
Anyone expecting chaos and mayhem on Pakistan’s streets following the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Imran Khan’s arrest on Saturday 5 August in Lahore must have been disappointed. There was silence and people went about their business.
This was not the case on 9 May or earlier in March when the cricketer-turned-politician’s...
