Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The government on Tuesday launched a probe after former premier Imran Khan loose-talked about PTI’s “azadi marchers” being armed to the teeth to face the riot forces in federal capital.
Politics
Missing Persons: IHC summons explanation from present, ex govt chiefs
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) wants all the former chief executives from Pervez Musharraf to present Shehbaz Sharif to come clean on their alleged unspoken agreement to extrajudicial abductions of citizens, for which they can be tried for high treason.
The PML-N ploy
By Staff Reporter
The debates, the doubts, and the drama over whether the country goes to vote` before the end of this regime’s tenure or not have died down for now.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif addressing the nation in Islamabad on 27 May 2022
Stick & carrot: PM justifies fuel price hike, unveils Rs28bn targeted subsidies
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: A day after giving the stick of a fuel price hike, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Friday dangled the carrot of a Rs28 billion/month inflation allowance before the nation’s poor, justifying the move as inevitable.
BHUTTO-ZARDARI: Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari with US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken in New York May 18. Photo courtesy APP
FM Bhutto’s advocacy for a Pakistan-US reset
By Staff Reporter
WASHINGTON DC: Foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari is making a sound case for a rest in Pakistan-US relations, a prominent Washington Post opinion writer has said.
Khan gives government six-day deadline for fresh polls, ends protest
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: Ousted prime minister Imran Khan has warned the government to set fresh elections schedule in the next six days, failing which he will again march on the capital Islamabad to stage a sit-in along with millions of people.
Executive bent on blocking march by a defiant Khan
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, PESHAWAR, LAHORE, SIALKOT, ETC.: The messy battle for political ascendancy in Pakistan between an ousted prime minister and the ruling coalition threatened to become even messier Tuesday when a police officer was gunned down on the course of a police raid of a minor political figure’s home.
Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, PDM President and JUI chief Maulana Fazalur Rehman, MQM-P convener Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and BNP-M chief Akhtar Mengal addressing a press conference on March 30.
Photo courtesy APP
PDM jittery, PM cool over Khan’s looming sit in
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s ruling coalition is huddling together yet again Monday – this time to deliberate ways and means to counter the political onslaught of Imran Khan, the prime minister they ousted from power.
Defiant Khan calls for protest march on Islamabad on May 25
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan asked his supporters to march on Islamabad for a ‘battle for real freedom’ sit-in on May 25 to press the coalition government to call an early election or face popular rage in a grim escalation of a three-month long political crisis.
A sick political joke
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Where the manifest sexual innuendo Imran Khan poked at Maryam Nawaz betrays the degeneration of his cynical toxic masculinity, it also lays bare his personal libidinous frustration that men of his mentality gratify by telling the women, who challenge them socially, sexually, and politically, how “penetrable” they are. Shame. But it must be said.