by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, Oct 23, 2023ISLAMABAD: n Tuesday, two former prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif and Imran Khan, will be in Islamabad, using Constitution Avenue as they separately appear before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) as accused individuals. Constitution Avenue, situated in the capital’s Red Zone, is adorned with various key buildings, including Parliament, the Prime Minister’s House, the Supreme Court, the Foreign Office, the…
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By Murtaza Ali Shah in The News, Oct 21, 2023DUBAI: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif Saturday said that he is returning to the country “vindicated”, expressing confidence in his party to steer Pakistan out of crises. The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo was speaking to journalists at the Dubai airport before boarding a special flight to the country, ending four-year self-imposed exile. Nawaz Sharif, who was ousted in a 1999 coup, is returning to Pakistan…
By Zebunnisa Burki in The News, Oct 21, 2023KARACHI: Political commentators feel that the fragile economic situation; Nawaz Sharif’s ‘narrative’; how he deals with Imran Khan; and the Punjab voter’s alleged proclivity for voting for establishment parties are the immediate challenges that await Nawaz as he returns home today. For some analysts, though, Nawaz Sharif’s politics are well past their sell-by date already. The News talked to political commentators on what challenges Nawaz faces as…
Reuters report, Oct 18, 2023WASHINGTON: A group of former top US officials and US resettlement organizations on Tuesday urged Pakistan to exempt from deportation to Afghanistan thousands of Afghan applicants for special US visas or refugee relocation to the United States. Pakistan has set a Nov 1. deadline for all illegal immigrants, including hundreds of thousands of Afghans, to leave the country or face forcible expulsion. Some 20,000 or more Afghans who fled the 2021…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Oct 17, 2023 at 10:11 PMTwo hundred journalists, led by the Federation of Journalists in Exile, have written a letter to Pakistan’s acting prime minister calling for a ban on their deportation. Afghan journalists in Pakistan are in a dire situation and their families will also face danger if they are deported from Pakistan, the letter said. Earlier, the Islamic Emirate pledged they would talk with Pakistani officials and said that…
By Umar Cheema in The News, Oct 18, 2023ISLAMABAD: The relationship between Pakistan and the United States came to a standstill after Imran Khan waved a piece of paper portraying it as a copy of a cipher in his speech on March 27 last year to allege that America was involved in ousting him from power through a no-confidence motion of his political opponent. Interviews conducted by the FIA of relevant officials at the Ministry…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, October 16, 2023Continuing the deportation of Afghan migrants from Pakistan, officials in Balochistan province have stated that 5,000 Afghan migrants returned to Afghanistan in the last 15 days. Pakistani media reported on Sunday that these migrants have returned to their country through the Chaman-Spin Boldak border crossing. Afghan refugees in Pakistan are alleging that the Pakistani army is destroying their homes to force them to leave the…
by Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, Oct 17th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday stopped authorities from expelling an Afghanistan-born Danish citizen from Pakistan after the security agencies objected to the renewal of his Pakistan Origin Card (POC). Headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, a three-member SC bench also directed the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the premier intelligence agency, to furnish within a month a report detailing reasons for denial of POC to…
By Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, October 17th, 2023WASHINGTON: Immigration officials in New York City have apprehended an international fugitive wanted in Brazil for prosecution for the crime of active corruption of a public official. The 32-year-old Pakistani citizen and permanent resident of Brazil was held outside his home in Queens, the New York Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) service said. The service, which is affiliated with the US Department of Justice, did not name the…
report in The Express Tribune, Oct 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) would announce its reserved ruling on Monday (today) on a petition of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan against the hearing of the cypher case inside jail premises, according to the cause list issued by the court registrar on Sunday. As per the cause list, Chief Justice Aamer Farooq would also hear Imran’s post-arrest bail application. The court had also issued…