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...
Pakistan's National Assembly held sittings this week in Islamabad, addressing a 111-point joint agenda with the Senate that included new amendment bills, standing committee reports, and calling attention notices on water scarcity.
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,...