by Malik Asad in Dawn, December 14th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Special Court (Official Secrets Act) on Wednesday indicted former prime minister Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the cipher case, sources told Dawn. Only four members of the press corps were allowed to cover Wednesday’s proceedings inside Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail. Mr Khan’s legal team, however, disputed the impression, with Barrister Salman Safdar telling reporters after the trial that the court did not…
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by Malik Asad in Dawn, December 5th, 2023• Babar Awan says former PM has requested court to summon ‘ex-army chief and US diplomat’• LHC bench ‘unavailable’ to hear PTI leader’s appeal concerning May 9 casesISLAMABAD: A special court seized with the cipher trial of former prime minister Imran Khan has decided to indict him and his aide Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Dec 12 for alleged breach of the official secrets law, whereas the PTI leader…
report in The Express Tribune, Nov 20, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court will take up PTI chairman and deposed premier Imran Khan’s intra-court appeal on Monday (today) against a single-judge bench’s decision that had approved his jail trial in the cipher case and the appointment of the judge for the special court of the Official Secrets Act. An IHC division bench, comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz, will hear the matter.…
By Wajih Ahmad Sheikh in Dawn, October 26th, 2023LAHORE: The Punjab caretaker government is likely to constitute a special medical board in case medical reports submitted to the Lahore High Court by PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif are contested, according to a committee that recommended the suspension of the PML-N leader’s sentence in the Al-Azizia case. The five-member body was formed by caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi to deliberate upon an application filed by the…
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 Dawn, August 25th, 2023PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have formed special weapons and tactics (SWAT) teams to fight militancy amid growing attacks. The initiative comes as the police department analysed the security situation and found out that two-thirds of the nationwide militant attacks took place in KP, according to a senior official. “Our [police] analysis reveals that around 70 per cent of militant attacks have been carried out against us. A total of…
By Khalid Iqbal in The News,August 23, 2023ISLAMABAD: Former federal minister Asad Umar secured a pre-arrest bail on Tuesday from the special court in Islamabad in the ongoing cipher case. The special court was established a day earlier to hear the cases filed under the Official Secrets Act. Umar, along with PTI lawyer Babar Awan, appeared before the special court in Islamabad on Tuesday. The Special Judge Abul Hasnat Zulqarnan has approved interim bail till…
by our Political Editor in The Sunday Morning, July 23, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed senior members of the Indian Government that the Sri Lanka Parliament, following recommendations from a special Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), will decide on the proposal to build a land bridge connecting India and Sri Lanka, The Sunday Morning learns. India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, during a meeting with President Wickremesinghe on Thursday (20) in New Delhi, had underscored the…
report in Prothom Alo, July 23, 2023Ruling Awami League is preparing to bring its leaders and activists to the streets at short notice in order to tackle any situation that may arise. It is with the forthcoming election as well as the one-point movement of BNP and other parties in mind that this preparation is being made. Top leaders of Awami League’s committees of all levels from all over the country have been summoned to…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, July 20, 2023Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Amir Khan Muttaqi, During a meeting in Kabul with Pakistan’s Special Envoy, said on Wednesday that Afghanistan soil would not be used against neighbouring countries and Afghans will never harm anyone. According to the Afghanistan Foreign Office, both sides emphasized the necessity to strengthen the political and economic ties between the two countries, pushing for the beginning of collaborative business initiatives.…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, June 07, 2023After Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said he will form a special high-level mechanism to investigate the assets of those in power since 1990, legal experts say a similar mechanism is necessary to bring reforms in the judiciary. Some of them say the effort should be made by the chief justice himself as the government cannot do so, as that could be a breach of…