report in The News, December 31, 2023MANSEHRA: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) leader Mufti Kifayatullah on Saturday said his party was in contact with other political parties to get their support against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supreme leader Nawaz Sharif for NA-15 in February 8 elections. “This is a wrong perception that JUIF is pursuing the agenda of PMLN as an ally. JUIF has its own policies and being a strong political power we will defeat Nawaz Sharif…
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by Imran Ayub in Dawn, December 17th, 2023KARACHI: Despite its reservations about a level playing field in the lead-up to general elections, PPP has announced on Saturday that it will launch the election campaign on December 27 — the 16th death anniversary of former party leader and prime minster Benazir Bhutto. The decision was taken at a meeting held at Bilawal House on Saturday, a day after the Election Commission of Pakistan released the schedule…
report in ToloNews, Nov 24, 2023 at 10.01PMNajibullah Haqqani, the acting Minister of Communication and Information Technology, said that the leader of the Islamic Emirate in a cabinet meeting ordered all the ministries to deal with the challenges faced by the immigrants. Officials of the Islamic Emirate in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar said that from the October 23, more than 100,000 Afghans who were forcibly deported from Pakistan have returned to the country through…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, November 23rd, 2023ISLAMABAD: PTI lawyer Sher Afzal Khan Marwat on Wednesday emerged as a key leader of the former ruling party after he was appointed as a senior vice president, with immediate effect. The party’s official account on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) shared the notification for Mr Marwat’s appointment, which was signed by PTI Secretary General Omar Ayub. Previously, stalwarts such as Asad Umar and Chaudhry Sarwar…
report in The Express Tribune, November 5th, 2023.Former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry was arrested in Islamabad on Saturday, confirmed the former PTI leader’s wife. Hiba Chaudhry took to X (formerly Twitter) this afternoon to announce that her husband was arrested, adding that his whereabouts were “unknown”. Fawad’s brother, Faisal Chaudhry, also confirmed the news. Hearing a plea filed against the former information minister’s arrest and seeking his recovery, the magistrate of the Kohsar police station,…
by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, Oct 18, 2023ISLAMABAD: In a major political breakthrough, the interim government on Tuesday reached out to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leadership, signalling an effort to create an environment conducive for the upcoming general elections. The day witnessed a flurry of unusual political activities as meetings that appeared to lay the groundwork for the polls opened the lines of communication with foes and erstwhile allies alike. The development followed…
By Asim Yasin in The News, Oct 17, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan People’s Party has raised apprehensions about the prospect of “special relief” to PMLN leader and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on his return on October 21. Nawaz Sharif was convicted by courts of law and he will have to face the law on his return as he went abroad with the consent of the Imran Khan government and also through a judiciary decision, PPP…
by Gazi Firoz in Prothom Alo, Oct 15, 2023Chattogram: A new political party from Chhattogram named ‘Pragatishil Ganatantrik Forum’ is going to be formed soon. Chattogram south unit BNP’s former leader and former vice president of Chittagong University Central Students’ Union (CUCSU) Nazim Uddin will be the chairman of the party. Azim Uddin, CUCSU’s former general secretary elected from Samajtantrik Chhatra Front, is going to be the secretary general of the party. Nazim Uddin claimed…
report in Daily Times, Oct 5, 2023The establishment has accepted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif’s narrative and backed off from politics, a top party leader said Wednesday. In a news conference, PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal said that Nawaz’s narrative has been accepted and the establishment announced openly that it would not interfere in politics any more. “The establishment and the judiciary will have to cooperate to take the country’s economy forward,” the…
report in Dawn, Oct 1st, 2023SWABI: A member of Awami National Party (ANP) provincial council was shot dead by two unidentified motorcyclists here on Saturday. Javed Khan, 55, was the eldest son of Sher Hassan, a retired police officer and a member of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Caravan. DSP Jawad Khan said that preliminary investigation made clear that the ANP leader was shot at from a very close range by the assailants. They moved close…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Sept 21st, 2023QUETTA: Police registered an FIR on Wednesday against unknown people in connection with the murder of a leader of the Awami National Party (ANP), Arbab Ghulam Muhammad Kasi, whose body was found in the Kuchlak area on Tuesday. “The FIR was registered with the Kuchlak police station on the complaint of a police officer after receiving a post-mortem report of a police surgeon who said the ANP leader…