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LAHORE: PML-N chief organiser Maryam Nawaz has alleged that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan is making efforts to return to power “riding the judiciary”. “Imran Khan is desperate and he wants to return to power riding the judiciary. Imran again needs crutches to come to power,” Ms Nawaz said while talking to the party’s young leaders in Model Town …

LAHORE: A “consultative meeting” between Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman and officials of the Election Commission on Tuesday failed to agree on a date for elections to the Punjab Assembly, as they decided to approach the Lahore High Court for “clarification and interpretation” of its ruling pertaining to immediate elections in Punjab. The high court, which had asked ECP to consult …

Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial on Wednesday asked why the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was consulting with the governor on dates for the Punjab Assembly elections as the court heard petitions filed by dissident PTI MPAs against their disqualification. The ECP had disqualified 25 dissident MPAs of the PTI on May 20, 2022 on the grounds that they had voted for PML-N’s Hamza Shehbaz …

ISLAMABAD: Amid an objection by a ruling coalition lawmaker to the ‘clarification’ issued by the Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP), the Senate on Tuesday continued to reverberate with the controversy over the remarks by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial that “the country just had one honest prime minister”. At the outset of the proceedings, Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar tried to bring …

An Islamabad Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) rejected on Wednesday PTI chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan’s request for an extension in his interim bail. The plea was made in a case pertaining to a protest outside the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) following its decision in the Toshakhana case. The verdict was announced by Judge Raja Jawad Abbas Hassan on the grounds …

Senator Raza Rabbani on Tuesday excoriated recently appointed Attorney-General for Pakistan (AGP) Barrister Shehzad Ata Elahi for “daring” to explain the actions of the House in a letter explaining the chief justice’s “honest prime minister” remarks. Days after an uproar in the Senate over the purported remarks of Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial, the government’s top law officer had clarified that no adverse …

PML-N leader Malik Ahmed Khan on Tuesday accused former prime minister Imran Khan of wanting to “alter the election cycle” of the country by attempting to force elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa before general elections — something he deemed a “flawed scheme”. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Malik Ahmed explained why holding national and provincial assemblies’ elections — …

South Waziristan MNA and Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) leader Ali Wazir was released from Karachi’s Central Jail on Tuesday after being incarcerated for more than two years. The lawmaker had been jailed in Karachi since December 31, 2020 after being arrested in various sedition cases. Wazir’s lawyer Advocate Qadir Khan confirmed the development to Dawn.com, saying that his client had been …

ISLAMABAD: Less than a week after the much-hyped Multi-Party Conference (MPC) was shelved, the Pakistan Peoples Party urged all political parties on Monday to sit together and devise a Code of Conduct (CoC) so that “we don’t cross the line while confronting each other” and thrash out a consensus to tackle the multiple crises afflicting the nation. Although the Pakistan …

After meeting with the electoral watchdog, Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman said on Tuesday that he would approach the Lahore High Court (LHC) to seek clarity on its order for the immediate announcement of the date for provincial elections as well as his advisory role in this regard. Last week, the LHC had ordered the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to immediately announce …