ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, will travel to Tehran on Monday for talks with senior Iranian officials, according to a statement from Iran’s foreign ministry, in the latest sign that Islamabad is trying to keep alive a fragile diplomatic channel between Washington and Tehran even as the two governments show little appetite for direct talks.
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Dar heads to London as hostage crisis with Somali pirates drags on
ISLAMABAD: Ishaq Dar, the deputy prime minister and foreign minister, will travel to the United Kingdom this week for a five-day diplomatic mission that will put him face to face with the officials he hopes can help free ten Pakistani sailors still held captive by Somali pirates more than four months after their ship was seized.
Pakistan authorises six-month army deployment in Rawalpindi under emergency powers
ISLAMABAD: The government has authorised the deployment of three companies of the Pakistan Army to Rawalpindi for six months, according to an interior ministry order dated August 21 and confirmed on Saturday.
Imran Khan’s family files contempt petition against PM Sharif and officials over ignored medical transfer order
ISLAMABAD: Imran Khan’s family and party filed a contempt of court petition against prime minister and a string of senior officials on Saturday, accusing them of defying a Supreme Court order that directed the jailed former leader be moved to a private hospital for treatment.
Imran Khan’s hospital visit descends into blame game as govt accuses PTI of flouting court order
ISLAMABAD: The government and the party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan traded fresh accusations on Saturday over his court-ordered medical examination, as a broken piece of hospital equipment and a disputed hospital transfer threatened to overshadow the underlying question of his health.
Govt refiles challenge to Supreme Court order on Imran Khan’s Shifa hospital transfer
ISLAMABAD: The government is locked in an escalating legal and political dispute with the Supreme Court and the party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, after officials sidestepped a court order to move him to a private hospital and instead took him to a state-run facility for a few hours of tests before returning him to his cell.
Pakistan and seven Muslim nations demand sanctions over Israel’s ‘dangerous’ E1 settlement plan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan joined seven other Muslim-majority nations on Friday in a strongly worded condemnation of Israel’s settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank, demanding international sanctions against those responsible and warning that a controversial new building scheme risks permanently dividing the Palestinian territories.
PTI warns it may quit parliament as Imran Khan’s sister reveals chaotic hospital transfer
ISLAMABAD: Uzma Khan, the sister of jailed former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan, gave a detailed and at times bewildering account on Friday of the events surrounding her brother’s overnight hospital transfer, telling reporters in Islamabad that police repeatedly withheld information from her and that she was left waiting in darkened corridors before finally being reunited with him — an account that has fed a sharpening political row, with PTI’s chairman accusing the government of violating a Supreme Court order and warning the party could withdraw from parliament altogether.
Imran Khan returned to Adiala jail after government reroutes court-ordered hospital visit
ISLAMABAD: Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan was returned to Adiala prison in the early hours of Friday after a night-time medical examination, following a chaotic sequence of events in which the government appeared to sidestep a Supreme Court order requiring his transfer to a private Islamabad hospital.
Imran Khan moved to hospital under armed guard as govt complies with court order
Imran Khan, the jailed former prime minister, was transferred from his cell in Adiala jail to a private hospital in Islamabad in the early hours of Friday, after days of legal wrangling in which the government resisted a supreme court order to move him.