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The PML-N and PPP on Friday rejected the government’s move to appoint retired Supreme Court judge Azmat Saeed Sheikh as head of the Broadsheet inquiry committee, citing his past affiliation with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as creating a “conflict of interest”. “Handing over investigations those who should [themselves] be investigated is the murder of justice. [Prime Minister] Imran Khan, have the …

ISLAMABAD: The opposi­tion Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakis­tan Peoples Party (PPP) on Monday challenged the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to produce evidence of its claim that they had received funding from abroad. The counsel for the two parties appeared before the scrutiny committee of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and argued that they had not received any foreign …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday awarded tickets to their candidates for Islamabad mayor’s election slated to be held on Dec 28, as Islamabad High Court rejected petitions seeking postponement of the polls. The upcoming mayor will hold office for almost two months as the five-year term of the mayor will end in February. The …

GILGIT: Election campaign across Gilgit-Baltistan is in full swing as polls draw nearer and PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz and Federal Minister Murad Saeed have continued to address rallies in different parts of the region. The PPP and PML-N leaders criticised Prime Minister Imran Khan in their speeches while the minister and Special Assistant to Prime …

ISLAMABAD: The chairman of Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir, Shehryar Khan Afridi, on Monday said that the leaders of the main parties in the opposition’s Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) in their tenure in office had kept the Kashmir issue on the backburner. He said these leaders had used the chairmanship of Kashmir Committee as a ‘bargaining chip’ for Maulana Fazlur Rehman, …

ISLAMABAD: The country’s two main opposition parties — Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) — on Saturday doubted that Prime Minister Imran Khan would take action against his “cronies” who had been found involved in the recent wheat and sugar crises in the country as per the reports of the Federal Investigation Agency. PML-N information secretary Marriyum …