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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Top government personalities at both federal and (Punjab) provincial level reportedly professed ignorance as to who had greenlit or ordered the Saturday arrest of Dr Shireen Mazari, a close aide of the ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has initiated a fresh round of consultations with his Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) allies over whether the coalition should continue in government or step down to make way for fresh elections, Independent Pakistan can report.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Friday ruled that the 25 members of the Punjab provincial assembly who recently voted contrary to the position of their Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party have lost the membership of the august assembly.
