Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has again hired DJ Butt to provide the sound system and play music during what the ruling party said the biggest ever public gathering in Islamabad on Sunday. The famous Disc Jockey (DJ), who was briefly arrested during the 2014 sit-in of the PTI in the capital, later developed serious differences with the party as it …

KARACHI: A day after the caravan of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) left for Islamabad to attend the opposition’s March 28 rally, a large number of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) activists started their journey to the federal capital on Friday on the call given by Prime Minister Imran Khan. They are scheduled to take part in a power show to be held on …

ISLAMABAD: A government-sponsored bill seeking the creation of the south Punjab province is set to be listed on the National Assembly’s agenda for Monday, when the house meets next to take up the crucial no-trust motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi submitted a constitutional amendment bill to National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser on Friday, seeking …

ISLAMABAD: While on one hand Prime Minister Imran Khan continued meeting Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNAs to seek their renewed support for the opposition’s no-trust resolution against him, his party on the other hand intensified its efforts to woo its allies in the government. Those who called on the prime minister at the PM House on Friday were federal Minister for …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Friday moved the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the Election Commission of Pakistan’s decision to dismiss its applications for keeping the disgruntled party member out of the foreign funding case and for seeking confidentiality of its funding sources. PTI secretary general and federal minister Asad Umar filed a petition before the IHC to challenge …

ISLAMABAD: The PPP is pressing the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) — a multi-party opposition alliance — to cancel its planned long march and public meeting in the capital on March 28 in response to the power show being organised by the ruling PTI ahead of the crucial vote on the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan. Sources in the opposition camp …

PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari alleged on Saturday that Prime Minister Imran Khan wanted state institutions to operate as his party’s Tiger Force as he made it clear that “we will not allow anyone to make our institutions controversial for one person.” “Next elections will be free and fair and no institutions will be made controversial for one person,” Bilawal remarked …

Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid said on Saturday that he had advised Prime Minister Imran Khan to call elections after presenting the federal budget for fiscal year 2022-23 as his popularity had increased following the opposition’s submission of a no-trust resolution against him. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, he stressed that the idea for early elections was his own “opinion” …

MANSEHRA: Prime Minister Imran Khan will address a public meeting in Thakral Stadium here today (Friday). The prime minister’s visit is part of the ruling PTI’s campaign for the March 31 local body elections in Mansehra and six other districts of Hazara division. The local PTI leaders said the prime minister would be given a warm welcome on arrival in …

KARACHI: A first glimpse of the mounting tension between the ruling party and its opponent parties amid approaching dates of their respective power shows in Islamabad ahead of a vote on no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Imran Khan was witnessed here on Thursday when a caravan Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) left for Islamabad with hundreds of its workers and separately Pakistan …