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  • Main bhi jail kaat raha hun, tum log bhi jail kaato: Imran Khan urges undercover PTI leaders to get arrested

    Main bhi jail kaat raha hun, tum log bhi jail kaato: Imran Khan urges undercover PTI leaders to get arrested

    Founder Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has directed party leaders who are underground to come out and get arrested, Geo News reported.

    While talking to journalists at Adiala Jail, Khan urged, “I myself am in prison and the rest of the leaders should also stop fearing it.”

    Imran is currently incarcerated in Adiala Jail over multiple charges including the new Toshakhana reference.

    Khan stated, “Undercover leaders of PTI should offer their arrests and face whatever charges are brought up against them. They can get bail from courts after arrests.”

    After May 9, 2023 many leaders of PTI including, Hammad Azhar and Murad Saeed went undercover to evade arrests.

  • Captain Safdar urges Nawaz Sharif to hold Panama case judges accountable

    Captain Safdar urges Nawaz Sharif to hold Panama case judges accountable

    Captain Muhammad Safdar Awan has urged former Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif to hold former Chief Justice Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed, Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, and Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan accountable for the unlawful verdict in the Panama case, he said in a gathering with locals.

    He said, “If Nawaz Sharif doesn’t hold Panama judges accountable, the public will never forgive him.”

    He added, “The public wants Panama bench judges in handcuffs along with former CJP Saqib Nisar.”
    He requested his father-in-law to arrest former Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and charge five Panama judges with impunity.

    He further said, “Pakistan would have become an Asian tiger if Panama judges did not remove Nawaz.”

    Earlier, the apex court of Pakistan declared former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif guilty in the Panama case verdict and sentenced ten years imprisonment with a 10.6 million dollar fine.

  • Oxford University faces backlash after Imran Khan confirms candidacy for Chancellor election

    Oxford University faces backlash after Imran Khan confirms candidacy for Chancellor election

    The University of Oxford has faced backlash, and protests have erupted after former Prime Minister Imran Khan confirmed his candidacy for the Chancellor election, Mail Online reported.

    The University received numerous emails concerning Khan’s past support for the Taliban and Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden (OBL), given his current incarceration.

    Imran Khan, founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), says he wants to ‘give back’ to his alma mater, where he studied fifty years ago.

    The university’s incumbent chancellor will retire this year, and Imran Khan is motivated to replace him while currently in prison and facing multiple cases.

    According to Oxford University’s criteria, any graduate of the university can contest in the Chancellor election, and the voting process will occur online.

  • Latif Khosa criticises inactive PTI leadership in Punjab

    Latif Khosa criticises inactive PTI leadership in Punjab

    Senior leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Latif Khan Khosa claimed on Geo talk show Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Saath that the PTI core committee is dissatisfied with the Punjab leadership due to its inactivity.

    He said, “The incumbent government is so afraid of the PTI rally that they are using the argument of law and order to besiege the area and enforce Section 144.”

    Commenting on PTI leader Hammad Azhar’s statement about marching towards Adiala Jail, Khosa said, “It was a non-serious and political statement.”

    He further stated, “Imran Khan doesn’t want any unrest in the country, which is why Khan postponed the August 22 rally that was scheduled for Islamabad.”

    “The committee will oversee and monitor the rally on September 8, headed by the Punjab leadership, and report to Imran Khan,” he added, commenting on the core committee’s role in the Islamabad rally.

  • Govt decides to increase Supreme Court judges to 23

    Govt decides to increase Supreme Court judges to 23

    The federal government has decided to increase the number of Supreme Court judges to 23, which includes the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Qazi Faez Isa, Geo News reported.

    The government has submitted the amendment bill of The Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Act, 1997, to the National Assembly Secretariat today.

    PML-N member Danyal Chaudhary proposed the bill in the National Assembly. The bill stated that the larger number of Supreme Court judges would help ensure timely hearings and decisions despite the backlog of cases.

    According to the proposed bill, expertise is needed in cases related to cybercrime, environmental law, and global trade.

    In February 2024, the Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan released the Bi-Annual Report of Judicial Statistics from July to December 2023, reporting that pending cases reached a staggering 2.26 million figure.

  • Army officer seized PTV van to stop coverage of Nawaz Sharif’s Kakul visit, claims Senator Irfan Siddiqui

    Army officer seized PTV van to stop coverage of Nawaz Sharif’s Kakul visit, claims Senator Irfan Siddiqui

    Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) member and senator Irfan Siddiqui has revealed on Hum News programme that when Nawaz Sharif was invited to Kakul Academy’s passing out parade as the chief guest in 2014, the PM’s live broadcast was taken off air by the army.

    Senator recalled, “It was soon after his [Gen Raheel} appointment in November 2013, and the passing out parade was in April (2014). The PM [Nawaz Sharif] invited me as well, along with some cabinet members.”

    Siddiqui said that when he returned home, his family members asked him why he wasn’t shown on TV.

    When the senator inquired from PML-N leader Pervez Rashid about their absence from live coverage, Rashid told Siddiqui: “Some officer had taken control of PTV’s van. He dictated what could go on live coverage and what couldn’t.”

    Irfan Siddiqui also stated that Pervez Rashid who was the federal minister of Information at the time wrote a letter to ISPR demanding an explanation but he did not get a reply.

    “At that time DG ISPR was Asim Saleem Bajwa. Bajwa created a whole machinery to create a greater than life public image of Gen Raheel and the Prime Minister could not be shown along with Gen Raheel,” said the PML-N leader.

    The senator stated that he was concerned at the fact that the new Army Chief was just appointed, so this incident alerted him.

  • Kabhi haan, kabhi na; After Tarar says no extension of judges tenure, Sanaullah has different story

    Kabhi haan, kabhi na; After Tarar says no extension of judges tenure, Sanaullah has different story

    The Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Political Affairs Rana Sanaullah has said that an extension in the tenure of High Court judges and bureaucrats is under consideration.

    His statement comes days after Information Minister Attaullah Tarar said that an extension in the Chief Justice of Pakistan’s tenure is not on the table.

    Speaking at the talk show ‘Redline with Talat Hussain’, Sanaullah said that the retirement date of High Court judges should be extended and fixed to sixty-five years of age from sixty-two years, and there is nothing wrong with it.

    He clarified that extending a Judge’s tenure can only be achieved through a parliamentary constitution amendment, a process that the government currently lacks the numbers to execute.

    Commenting on the next Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) announcement, Sanaullah said, “The next CJP announcement will be appointed on time.”

    He added, “Lately, the Government made the mistake of announcing the name of CJP Qazi Faez Isa too early; this time, the incumbent government doesn’t want to repeat the mistake.”

  • Pakistan will ‘definitely invite’ Modi to SCO summit, confirms Khawaja Asif

    Pakistan will ‘definitely invite’ Modi to SCO summit, confirms Khawaja Asif

    Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has said on August 27 that Pakistan will invite Indian Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Islamabad.

    Commenting on the invitation to the Indian Premier, the Defence Minister said, “Yes, certainly there should be no doubt about it.”

    Asif said that the host country has no right to choose which country’s head of state to invite, and SCO does not allow such moves.

    He said, “Ministry External Affairs (MEA) hasn’t commented on Indian media speculation of Modi refusing to attend the regional summit.”

    The SCO is a strategic partner of the United Nations (UN) on political affairs, peace, and security issues.

    Commenting on Iran’s final notice to Pakistan on the gas pipeline delay project, Asif remarked, “The project should be completed; it suits Pakistan economically.”

    “Iran is our neighbour country, and if we need oil, gas or other mineral resources, then the neighbourly countries are economically beneficial,” he concluded

  • ‘They can be dealt with by an SHO,’ Mohsin Naqvi on Baloch militants

    ‘They can be dealt with by an SHO,’ Mohsin Naqvi on Baloch militants

    Interior Minister Mohsin Raza Naqvi has claimed that extensive operations are not required to fight against militants and that they can be dealt with by a Station House Officer (SHO).

    Later, however, when a journalist questioned his statement, he clarified that it was “symbolic.

    Responding to the inquiry of militants challenging the state, Naqvi said, “Militants assaulted secretly and conspiringly.”

    He asserted that there is no science required to counter these militants; “they are terrorists, and our civil armed forces, armed forces, and police know how to combat them”.

    “Balochistan incident is unbearable, and our hearts are aggrieved,” he added.

    Chief Minister Balochistan Sarfraz Ahmed Bugti remarked, “Terrorists find an inch of the road out of four thousand kilometre road and kill innocents.”

    “Militants attack the softest target after finding the weakest place,” he stated.

  • Iran issues final notice to Pakistan over pipeline delay

    Iran issues final notice to Pakistan over pipeline delay

    Iran has sent a final notice to Pakistan before approaching the Paris Arbitration Court (PAC) regarding the delay in the gas pipeline project even after the extended 180-day deadline, a government official told The News.

    In 2009, a Gas Sales Purchase Agreement (GSPA) was signed under French law. The project was delayed for ten years due to United States sanctions. However, the French arbitration court does not accept the US embargos.

    The agreement read, “The Inter-State Gas Systems (ISGS) of Pakistan and the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) inked the revised contract in September 2019, and under that contract, Iran would not approach any international court if there was a delay in the construction of the pipeline. However, Pakistan would erect its pipeline by 2024, after which it would have an intake of 750 million cubic feet of gas from Iran daily.”

    Under the French GSPA, if Iran does not exercise its right to move the arbitration court till September 2024, it will lose its battle for legal rights against Pakistan.