report in The Express Tribune, December 20th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: In a significant development on Tuesday, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed a reference with the accountability court against former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, in connection to the Toshakhana case. The registrar office of the accountability court is set to take further action after scrutinising the case. The NAB Rawalpindi, acting on allegations of graft, has named only two…
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By Malik Asad in Dawn, November 15th, 2023ISLAMABAD: While the Islamabad High Court (IHC) intervened on Tuesday to stop the jail trial of former prime minister Imran Khan in the cipher case, the law ministry concurrently issued a notification for closed-door proceedings against him in NAB cases. Subsequently, Accountability Judge Mohammad Bashir conducted proceedings in the millions of pounds corruption case at Adiala Jail, permitting the NAB investigation team to interrogate the former premier until…
By Rashidul Hasan in The Daily star, Nov 13, 2023The Jatiya Party appears to have softened its tough stance against elections under the ruling Awami League. JP Chairman GM Quader used to say that with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in power, the next national election cannot be free and fair. He also used to say that there should be a system in which the government cannot influence or control polling. That’s why GM Quader’s November…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 14, 2023The Supreme Court has issued a show cause notice against Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai over the use of children in the 1996-2006 Maoist insurgency. A single bench of Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla asked Dahal and Bhattarai, the then supreme commander of the Maoist combatants and the chief of “people’s government,” respectively, to furnish in writing whether they recruited child soldiers. “The…