ISLAMABAD: Since his ouster as prime minister last year, Imran Khan has played a high-stakes game of challenging Pakistan’s powerful military. Now it’s reaching a breaking point.Khan’s dramatic arrest by dozens of paramilitary rangers last week for graft triggered protests that left at least eight people dead and hundreds injured, risking more spasms of violence … Read more
NEW DELHI: India has invited Pakistan for a meeting of home ministers and also defence ministers and NSAs in the run-up to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit likely to take place in the first week of July.The government will soon also send an invite to Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif for the SCO summit which … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has claimed that the establishment is calling him but he has blocked their numbers and will not speak to anyone until a date for the general election is announced, contending that dropping an atom bomb on the country would be better than having “criminals” at the helm of … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday ruled out evidence of “foreign conspiracy” to oust former prime minister Imran Khan at a meeting of the country’s high-powered National Security Committee (NSC) chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Asad Majeed Khan, Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US, briefed the committee on the context and content of his last month’s … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former three-time PM Nawaz Sharif is returning to the country after Eid to voluntarily face the judicial process in all cases against him, federal minister and PML-N leader Javed Latif said on Wednesday. He also revealed that PPP had named the party’s chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari for the vacant foreign minister’s berth and that … Read more