A meeting between jailed PTI founder Imran Khan and his lawyer, Barrister Salman Safdar, at Adiala Jail has produced competing accounts of what the former prime minister knew and how he reacted to the imposition of emergency and governor’s rule in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The differences matter because the meeting was one of the few direct...
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has taken its long march to the streets. After two rounds of negotiations with the government failed to produce an agreement, the party set out on Sunday, October 4, from Gandi Chowk in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat, with Chief Minister Sohail Afridi leading the first phase. The march was first called for...
The federal government has approved the deployment of Pakistan Rangers across Islamabad Capital Territory and several Punjab districts ahead of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s planned march on the federal capital scheduled for September 27, as security preparations in the twin cities intensify into one of the largest law-enforcement mobilisations the region has seen in recent years. The...
With Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s planned long march to Islamabad now just three days away, the federal government has delivered its clearest message yet to the party: the protest will not be permitted in the capital, come what may. Sources say the message has been conveyed to PTI leadership, even as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi,...
Three sisters of PTI founder Imran Khan were being held in Kot Lakhpat Jail on Monday under 30-day detention orders, after a sequence of detentions that unfolded in less than a day and sharply raised the political temperature just days before the party’s planned September 27 march on Islamabad. Aleema Khan was the first to...
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi’s planned address at a PTI rally in Karachi was thrown into uncertainty on Sunday as authorities blocked several key arteries across the city, causing massive traffic disruption and repeatedly delaying his arrival from Hyderabad. Afridi’s caravan left Hyderabad before sunset but ran into roadblocks almost immediately on its route toward...
A long-running dispute over the treatment of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan inside Adiala Jail has resurfaced, with prison authorities pushing back publicly against claims from the party that the former prime minister is being held in isolation and denied adequate access to family and legal counsel. Jail officials say Khan, who has been in...
An anti-terrorism court in Lahore has once again split its verdict in a case tied to the May 9, 2023 riots, convicting four senior leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf while acquitting the party’s vice chairman, Shah Mahmood Qureshi. The ruling, delivered by ATC Judge Manzar Ali Gill at Kot Lakhpat Jail, sentenced Dr Yasmin Rashid,...