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ISLAMABAD: Hours after Imran Khan directly blamed government officials and an army officer for the attempt on his life, federal ministers and the military denied the allegations, calling them “unacceptable and uncalled for”, while demanding action against “those responsible for defamation and false accusations against the institution and its officials”. Earlier, Mr Khan had accused the prime minister, interior minister and …

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: Scores of PTI activists were arrested after protesters turned violent as they pelted the capital police and personnel of other law enforcement agencies with stones at Faizabad Bridge on Friday. Earlier, the PTI secretary general Asad Umar had announced protests after Friday prayers against gun attack on former prime minister Imran Khan in Wazirabad. The PTI had called protests …

PTI chief Imran Khan’s lawyer submitted an application to the Supreme Court (SC) on Saturday to defer a hearing in a contempt case filed against the former prime minister for allegedly flouting a May 25 court order that defined the limits for his party’s ‘Azadi March’ at the time. The deferral was sought on the grounds of Imran’s hospitalisation after he was …

ISLAMABAD: Interior Min­ister Rana Sanaullah on Friday termed the attack on Imran Khan a case of religious extremism, asserting that his own party PML-N considered the ex-premier a “political rival and not an enemy”. “Details about the attacker [who is] in custody will astound you,” he told a presser, hinting that he was linked with some religious extremist group. A second video …

LAHORE: Just a day after he escaped an assassination attempt during his party’s long march, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan vowed he would be back on the streets as soon as he was discharged from hospital. In the meantime, he urged his followers to continue protesting against the “injustices” being committed by the incumbent rulers allegedly with the support of …

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif in an inflammatory address on Friday shifted the blame of the assassination attempt on PTI chief Imran Khan onto the former prime minister for what he described as “crossing the red lines of religion”. He expressed these views during the National Assembly (NA) centering on yesterday’s assassination attempt on the former prime minister, which he alleged was being used to …

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday admitted for hearing a petition seeking the removal of PTI Chairman Imran Khan after his disqualification in the Toshakhana reference. The LHC had on Thursday reserved the verdict on the maintainability of the plea, filed by Advocate Mohammad Afaq. Justice Sajid Mehmood Sethi announced the decision today and served notices to the attorney general and advocate general …

KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Wednesday acquitted six senior leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and some others in three cases pertaining to organising and listening to the controversial speeches of London-based party found Altaf Hussain in 2016. Senior leaders Dr Farooq Sattar, Amir Khan, former Karachi mayor Wasim Akhtar, Rauf Siddiqui, Khawaja Izharul Hasan, Mehfooz Yar Khan and some others were …

LAHORE: It seems that Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s campaign for ‘real freedom’ could be a protracted one, after he hinted on Wednesday that the long march could last for 10 months instead of simply culminating upon reaching Islamabad. Addressing participants of the rally at Gakharmandi on the sixth day of the travails, the former prime minister asked the …

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court will take up on Thursday (today) a petition seeking removal of former prime minister Imran Khan from the office of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman following his disqualification in Toshakhana reference. Mohammad Afaq, a lawyer by profession, filed a three-page petition in Urdu pleading that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) disqualified the former prime minister and de-seated …