After much drama over the resignation and election of the provincial chief executive, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed lawmaker Sohail Khan Afridi has finally been sworn in as the chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Afridi replaces his party colleague, Ali Amin Gandapur, as the provincial chief executive after the latter was ordered to step down amid reports […]
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PTI warns against any unconstitutional move in KP
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday issued a strong warning against any unconstitutional move in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and reaffirmed its full support for Sohail Afridi, nominated by PTI founder Imran Khan for the position of Chief Minister of KP. Addressing a joint press conference in Peshawar, PTI leaders — Secretary General Salman Akram Raja, former […]
Imran urges mass turnout in Peshawar on Sept 27
The Toshakhana-II case against former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi has entered its final stages, as the prosecution closed its arguments after recording statements from its last two witnesses. The witnesses included NAB’s Investigating Officer Mohsin Haroon and FIA’s Investigating Officer Shahid Pervaiz, who will be […]
PTI senators quit all committees in protest against ‘engineered system’
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has formally resigned from all Senate standing committees, intensifying its political disengagement from the parliamentary process in protest against what it describes as an ‘engineered system’. PTI’s parliamentary leader in the Senate, Barrister Ali Zafar, submitted the resignations of party senators to the Senate Secretariat on Tuesday. Speaking outside the Parliament […]
Imran Khan takes legal action against judges’ transfers in supreme court
Imran Khan, the founding chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has recently filed a petition in the Supreme Court to challenge the government’s transfer of judges. He argues that this transfer is unconstitutional and undermines the principle of judicial independence. His petition, submitted under Article 184(3) of the Constitution, requests that the court declare the transfer […]
Minister says govt to stand by expatriates, labour class
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain has said that the government and the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) would always stand by overseas Pakistanis, especially the labour class. In a tweet, he said that he was surprised at the letter written by some former bureaucrats to the prime minister. He said that attitudes needed […]
Stop befooling the people: Ahsan Iqbal
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal on Wednesday said that Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was fooling the people in the name of southern Punjab. He was reacting to a news conference in which Qureshi had spoken about the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government moving a bill in the National Assembly for the formation […]
Barrister Wahab lauds Karachiites for rejecting politics of hatred, discrimination
Advisor to Sindh Chief Minister for information, law and anti-corruption, Barrister Murtaza Wahab, on Monday, relayed that in the wake of the heat wave, all commissioners and deputy commissioners had been directed to take precautionary measure and setup heat wave centres in health care facilities and cold water facilities. He added that provincial rehabilitation and […]
Liars make the best promises
In the words of the American author, Pierce Brown, “liars make the best promises”. These words are exceptionally true for the far-fetched and deliberately misleading promises that the current regime seems to specialise in. Visibly unattainable promises, such as providing ten million jobs and five million houses by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) appear to be ‘innocent […]
Sustained effort required
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) affiliated Asia Pacific Group (APG) seems unimpressed by Pakistan’s recent efforts to crack down on militant groups, citing insufficient actions on the ground against proscribed organisations (POs) to block flow of funds and activities. The press has been told that though the government seemed to have all of its paperwork […]