ISLAMABAD: A bitter dispute over the medical treatment of Imran Khan, the imprisoned former prime minister, spilled into the country’s Senate on Tuesday, as lawmakers from the government and the opposition accused each other of defying a Supreme Court order meant to guarantee his care.
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PTI refiles contempt petition over Imran Khan’s diverted hospital transfer
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan registrar’s office on Tuesday accepted a refiled contempt of court petition accusing senior government officials of defying a court order that directed jailed former prime minister Imran Khan be transferred to a private hospital for medical treatment, after an earlier version of the filing was returned for procedural deficiencies.
Pakistan’s army chief Munir returns to Tehran as peace track stalls, US ramps up economic pressure
Pakistan’s top military officer arrived in the Iranian capital on Monday for another round of talks aimed at salvaging a peace process that has largely stalled in recent weeks, even as the Trump administration unveiled a sweeping new sanctions campaign designed to further isolate Tehran from the global economy.
Imran Khan’s PTI party denies deal talk, demands court enforce hospital order
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan dismissed rumors of a backroom deal between his party’s imprisoned founder, Imran Khan, and the government on Monday, telling reporters outside the Supreme Court that a man willing to negotiate his freedom would not have spent the last three years behind bars.
New Kashmir assembly sworn in as PML-N extends its majority
MUZAFFARABAD: The new Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly took shape on Monday, as outgoing Speaker Chaudhry Latif Akbar administered the oath of office to 38 newly elected lawmakers, capping a bruising three-phase election season that has left the territory’s two dominant parties further estranged.
Pakistan’s military chief returns to Tehran as US prepares toughest sanctions yet on Iran
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top military officer arrived in the Iranian capital on Monday for his fourth visit since the outbreak of the war between Iran and the United States, meeting with Iran’s interior minister just hours before Washington was set to unveil what US officials have billed as the harshest round of sanctions ever imposed on the Islamic Republic.
Opposition leader’s failure to unite parties let defence bill sail through parliament, JUI-F chief says
PESHAWAR: Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the head of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl, used a party workers’ convention here Sunday to deliver a pointed critique of Pakistan’s fractured opposition, arguing that its failure to coordinate a unified response allowed the government to push through sweeping new military command legislation with almost no scrutiny.
Nawaz Sharif warns brother against another constitutional crisis
MUZAFFARABAD: Nawaz Sharif summoned the senior ranks of his party to Muzaffarabad on Sunday, opening a meeting that was ostensibly about naming the next prime minister of Azad Kashmir but that drifted, inevitably, into weightier terrain: the health of his political rival, the temper of the Supreme Court, and the durability of his brother’s government in Islamabad.
Imran Khan sent back to jail without recommended heart scan, party says
For the second time in a week, doctors recommended that Imran Khan, Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister, undergo a cardiac imaging test to check for blocked arteries. For the second time, it did not happen — and now his party is accusing the government of deliberately steering him away from the one hospital equipped to perform it.
JI chief threatens countrywide shutdown, march on Islamabad over fuel levy
LAHORE: The head of Pakistan’s Jamaat-e-Islami party said on Sunday that his organisation would call for a nationwide shutter-down strike once a major Islamic religious observance concludes this week, sharpening a confrontation with the federal government over fuel prices that has kept protesters camped outside government buildings in four provincial capitals for more than a week.