By Waseem Ahmad Shah in Dawn, December 27th, 2023PESHAWAR: In another legal victory for the PTI, the Peshawar High Court on Tuesday suspended an order of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), which had declared the former ruling party’s intra-party polls ‘void’ and revoked its electoral symbol last week. Justice Kamran Hayat Miankhel pronounced a short order on a petition, jointly filed by PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali and six other leaders, requesting the court…
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report in The Express Tribune, Dec 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The PTI’s recently-held intra-party elections were thrust into uncertainty on Friday after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issued the party a notice on a plea seeking to have the polls declared null and void. A five-member bench, presided over by the chief election commissioner, held a preliminary hearing on 14 applications, seeking nullification of PTI’s intra-party elections. In the hearing, estranged PTI founding member Akbar S…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 14, 2023The special representative of Russia for Afghanistan has unequivocally declared that Moscow has no plans to recognize the Taliban formally. Zamir Kabulov told the TASS news agency that Russia has repeatedly stated at all possible levels that there is no discussion about recognizing the Taliban. He told TASS, “There is no progress, and this has been discussed at all possible levels.” Russia is a member…
by Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, October 13th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The federal government has, in the wake of top judiciary’s verdict upholding the Practice and Procedure Act 2023, decided to challenge the Supreme Court’s Sept 15 ruling in which it had declared as illegal the amended National Accountability Ordinance (NAO). Talking to Dawn, Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor Usman Awan said the appeal is likely to be moved early next week. Permission may also be sought…
report in The Express Tribune, Oct 9, 2023LONDON: In what appears to be a softening of his stance, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has declared that his foremost and ultimate priority upon his return to Pakistan is the country’s economic revival. He stated, “The journey of progress will resume from where it was interrupted, and we are committed to ensuring that the nation overcomes economic challenges, inflation, and unemployment.” The PML-N supreme leader, scheduled to…
report in Daily Mirror, Sept 12, 2023Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who has maintained a stark silence since his resignation in July last year is now eyeing to recapture and strengthen his failed image through a new political party which is now led by one of his close aide’s and media owner who declared his entry into politics yesterday. The Daily Mirror learns that Gotabaya Rajapaksa who has been given all the privileges and facilities as…
It is astounding that former prime minister Imran Khan still thinks that the best way to deal with the so-called Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which has declared a war on this State, is through engagement. In his speech on Tuesday to a seminar organised in Islamabad by his party’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government, he said his government had planned to resettle at least 5,000 TTP fighters and their families in the erstwhile tribal areas with the…