Tag: Pakistani Politics
Transgenders have historically struggled in Pakistan and have oftentimes been placed on the periphery of Pakistani society. One of the most marginalised groups in the country, this community has faced severe discrimination for years. However, ...
Since the abolition of Article 370 on August 5th, effectively ending it’s autonomy, Kashmir has been facing a lockdown with strict curfews, violence against protesters and growing tensions between India and Pakistan. Here’s a timeline ...
Today marks the historic opening of the Kartarpur Corridor, but reports have emerged from a section of Indian media raising doubts about the true intentions of this event Prime Minister Imran Khan is set to ...
Pakistani officials have been accused of attempting to cover up an outbreak of the most dangerous polio strain and trying to contain it with a covert vaccination programme According to The Guardian, the P2 strain ...
This Sunday saw the 550th birth anniversary of the founder of Sikhism, Baba Guru Nanak Dev. Over 1,100 Indian Sikhs crossed the wagha border and arrived in Gurdwara Punja Sahib in Hassanabdal to partake in ...
Protesters this week were spotted holding the Taliban flag at Maulana Fazlur Rehmans Azadi March this week. Government officials were quick to criticise this move. The special assistant to the Prime Minister on youth affairs, ...
Top profile officials in countries like Pakistan that are allies of the US were targeted early in the year by expert hackers through Whatsapp The list of country officials affected has been updated and Pakistan ...
Ex-President Mamnoon Hussain, who was famously irrelevant in his time as the President of Pakistan, is reported to still be pretty much irrelevant. According to sources, he reminisces the time when at least he was ...
Nawaz Sharif reportedly suffered from a heart attack this morning, according to sources. However this claim has now been refuted by the hospital The former premier is reportedly suffering from angina. Currently, his platelet count ...
As the economic crises grows, Pakistani Prime Minister has appealed to Pakistani expats and anyone with money to basically think of Pakistan as charity box where you can put all your charity in. In an ...
Kashif Ali Chaudhry, the Vice President of the PML-N’s Lawyers Wing, is stated to have been kidnapped from Thokar Niaz Baig by a nameless party on Sunday According to the complaint lodged by his brother, ...
The PTI government has proposed lowering the interest rate on bank loans for women running businesses to help them launch their trade under the Prime Minister’s Youth Business Loan Scheme The government’s aim for this ...
Three Pakistan Army Majors have been found guilty on charges of indiscipline and misconduct, or more specifically, for abusing their power and being involved in illegal activities The ISPR’s media wing issued a statement concerning ...
An accountability court has extended the judicial remand of Maryam Nawaz, Vice President of PML-N, in the Chaudhry Sugar Mills case An NAB prosecutor requested judge Jawadul Hassan to grant more time to file a ...
The National Assembly has passed the Zainab Alert Bill in order to set up an agency that will report and work on missing children cases The Bill will allow Zainab Alert, Response and Recovery Agency ...
On 5 August 2019, the Indian Government abolished the special status granted to Jammu and Kashmir- an area that has been the subject of dispute between India, Pakistan, and China since 1947. The special status ...
The government estimates that Pakistan’s total public debt will increase from Rs. 31 trillion to Rs. 45.57 trillion The ministry of finance has also calculated total external debt to jump up 80%, from Rs. 10.446tr ...
The military’s media department has issued a statement about the trending meeting the Army Chief Gen had with powerful business tycoons a while ago According to sources, tension at the dinner table conference escalated when ...
An asset recovery firm once hired by NAB during Musharraf’s regime, has laid a claim on London flats once owned by ex-PM Nawaz Sharif after failure to pay the $22M bill owed by NAB for ...
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari spent Friday holding meetings in Larkana, in efforts to boost their PS-11 by-election campaign. The PPP leader met with representatives of different parties at Naudero House with Provincial Party President Nisar ...
The Balochistan high court election tribunal has declared Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri’s as void and ordered a re-election in the NA-265 (Quetta II) constituency. The tribunal has not announced a date for the re-election, ...
Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) MNA’s were released from jail in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Haripur district this Saturday, according to sources. This development comes after two days from the two lawmakers being granted bail by the Peshawar ...
19 June 2019 Iran has announced that it had dismantled a US spy network, after The US deployed 1,000 more troops to the Middle East Tehran’s announcement came a day after it said its uranium ...
19 June 2019 Shahzad Akbar has claimed that the United Kingdom has agreed to extradite former finance minister Ishaq Dar Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Akbar said that an agreement in this regard has ...
Today morning, our National Assembly broke out into a fish market. Speaker Asad Qaiser faced a hard time in the National Assembly when he was first attacked by the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) for ...
The hashtag ‘Ahmedi’ has been trending in Pakistan again, after Attock Assistant Commissioner Jannat Hussain Nekokara was forced to apologise for speaking about equal treatment of minorities, including that of Ahmedis. This has led to another ...
According to Shah Mehmood, Imran Khan and Donald Trump may have a meeting A meeting between Prime Minister Imran Khan and United States President Donald Trump might take place after some progress in the ongoing ...
Currently having the highest population of youth, Pakistan is termed as one of the youngest countries in the world and second youngest in South Asia. Coupled that with the high poverty level in Pakistan, and ...
Reham Khan is known for many things. She’s known as a journalist, an author and Imran Khan’s ex-wife. However, what many people do not know is that she is an incredible Twitter profile. Her tweets, ...
Shehbaz Sharif, PML-N President, states Prime Minister Imran Khan “lies day and night” and is “wasting the nation’s time by spreading disinformation” PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif says he is not seeking asylum in the UK. ...
On Sunday 21 April a series of coordinated bombings took place in Sri Lanka. The explosions targeted Christians at Easter Sunday church services in Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa, and tourists staying in luxury hotels in ...
3 gunmen attacked Pearl Continental Gwadar on Saturday Just a few days after the Data Darbar terrorist attack, Pakistan witnessed another attack on its soil. Gunmen stormed the hotel in Gwadar, killing one security guard, ...
Three to four armed militants stormed Pearl Continental Hotel in Gwadar on Saturday evening according to the Gwadar Station House Officer Aslam Bangulzai. “At around 4:50pm we got reports that there are three to four ...
Fawad Chaudhary has been in the news for the past week, after going on a press tour as the new Minster of Science and Technology. However, most of the news coverage has been about his ...
The Supreme Court berates DHA for allocating state land to private entities The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday took issue with the Defence Housing Authority’s (DHA) handing over of state land in Karachi to private entities. ...
You may have missed it, but the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been in the middle of a nationwide crackdown on a Chinese sex trafficking ring. With everything else that’s going on in the news, ...
Ramzan is here, and so is the moral imperative to make sure everyone is fasting, or at least looks like they are. In Pakistan, it is illegal to eat, smoke or drink in public during ...
A suicide blast at one of Pakistan’s oldest and most popular Sufi shrines killed at least 10 people and wounded 24 in the eastern city of Lahore today morning. Here are 15 things you need ...
Nawaz Sharif and Entourage leaves for Kot Lakhpat prison Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif left for Kot Lakhpat prison with his entourage, following the expiry of his six-week bail in ...
Gaza is under attack! Death toll rises as more than 600 rockets were fired during the weekend escalation between Israel-Palestine The death toll rise Sunday as civilian casualties increased on both sides of the border ...
US President Donald is confident in the Hermit Kingdom’s ability to keep a promise. On Saturday, he said that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un would not “break his promise,” after South Korea said Pyongyang had ...
Imran Khan lays foundations for his Naya Pakistan Housing Scheme plan; says everyone deserves a roof over their head Imran Khan has finally revealed the foundational structure of his new housing scheme, Naya Pakisran Housing ...
If you hadn’t noticed, Child marriages has come back into the limelight recently. For the past few days, pictures have been circulating on Social media of a young girl no older than 10 getting married ...
If you weren’t already aware, The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) approved a RS 9 increase in the price of petrol per litre on Friday. It will be sold at Rs108 per litre after approval of ...
Major changes to PML-N; Maryam Nawaz among 16 vice presidents, Abbasi named senior VP It looks like major changes are happening in all political parties. A day after Shahbaz Sharif steps down as the Public ...
Shahid Afridi reveals his real age in autobiography! Shahid Afridi reveals his real age in his new autobiography, Game Changer, released this week in India and Pakistan. In a chapter in which he describes his ...
Over 21 million children aren’t enrolled in schools in #Pakistan. If we don’t act now, it might be too late to change the future of our nation. Click here to learn about the woman who ...
Bilawal tweets old video of Edhi ‘exposing Imran Khan’ after the Premier calls him “Sahiba”
More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s northwest in the last week About 58,600 Rohingya have fled into neighboring Bangladesh from Myanmar, according to UN refugee agency UNHCR, as ...
The Food giant Nestle Pakistan has been booked under the Code of Criminal Procedure in Section 154 due to its ‘poisonous’ products that took the life of a one-month old baby. Here’s what happened One-month-old ...
The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama was admitted to a New Delhi hospital on Tuesday with a chest infection. The 83-year-old Buddhist monk is reportedly stable. Up to 100,000 Tibetans living in India are ...
2,200 visas have been granted to Sikh Pilgrims by the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi so they may participate in the annual Baisakhi celebrations to be held in Pakistan from April 12 to 21. ...
More than a dozen live shells of an anti-aircraft gun have been found from a plot located about half a kilometre from the Banigala residence of Prime Minister Imran Khan. A senior officer of the ...
In 1971, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, tore up his papers and walked out of the UN Security Council after delivering a historic speech.
The report by the NGO Sahil, titled ‘Cruel Numbers 2018’, has been compiled by monitoring 85 regional and national newspapers, and from the cases that have been reported. Here are the major findings: 3,832 cases ...
Brunei will be imposing harsh punishments starting next week under its anti-LGBT Law and is facing much backlash from Human rights organisations including amnesty
The United Nations has unanimously adopted a resolution put forth by Turkey which condemns violence and terrorism targeting individuals belonging to religious minorities
On Tuesday, the United Nations unanimously passed a resolution put forth by Turkey and co-sponsored by Pakistan which strongly condemns violence and terrorism targeting individuals belonging to religious minorities. Swipe to read the highlights
“He usually hits me a lot but this time he even shaved my head aswell and then beat me with pipes” – Asma
When will people stop asking Jemima about Imran Khan?
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif received a warm welcome from family and supporters on returning home on bail
Mehwish Hayat received a lot of hate after being awarded the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz on 23rd March by President Dr Arif Alvi. Today, the actress took to social media to reply to her haters.
In an unsurprising turn of event, a bureaucrat from karachi abused the police for asking to show his ID card
Mosharraf Zaidi criticises America and India for damaging Pakistan’s Sovereignty.
Bilawal Bhutto trolled ImranKhan and the Insaafians were prepared with the most savage comebacks!
This Christian woman was forced to convert, raped and paraded naked through the streets. Where is the accountability?
The first episode of the #InfoTonic series on #TheGreatMughals features #Babur, the founder of the Mughal empire. But did you know that this king lost all his kingdoms before establishing one of the greatest empires ...
Major English and Urdu newspapers in occupied Kashmir on Sunday published blank front pages in protest against the Indian State government’s suspension of advertising to two local English dailies – Greater Kashmir and Kashmir Reader.
Afzal Kohistani, the whistleblower who brought the gnarly truth of the Kohistan video scandal forward, was shot dead in Abbottabad on Wednesday by unidentified men. Kohistani has repeatedly asked form security. According to Express Tribune, just ...
The Indian CM Mamata Banerjee made some hard hitting remarks against the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi of ‘doing opportunistic politics over the dead bodies’ of Indian Armed forces. The popular CM vowed to remove ...
Former Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (MNS) stated that he would rather die with dignity that beg the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf government to provide him with medical facilities. During a family meeting at Kot Kakhpat Jail ...
Punjab Chief Minister, Usman Buzdar, has asked Fayazul Hassan Chohan to hand in his resignation from his post as Provincial Information and Culture Minister over his anti-Hindu remarks, sources have confirmed. “The Punjab CM sought ...
Early on Tuesday, Pakistan’s Navy foiled an intrusion attempt into Pakistani waters by an Indian Submarine. This is the second time the Indian Navy has tried to intrude Pakistani waters since November 2016. A Navy ...
On Monday, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s official account tweeted Prime Minister Imran Khan’s message in Hindi and Twitterati on both sides of the border went crazy. Sharing Imran’s earlier tweet on Nobel Prize, PTI tweeted: “मैं नोबेल ...
Thousands attended the funeral of Shakirullah alias Mohammad Ilyas, the Pakistani prisoner who was lynched in an Indian jail. Shakirullah’s body arrived via the Wagah border and people threw rose petals on the ambulance carrying ...
Did you know who was the woman accompanying the captured Indian Pilot Abhinandan? Well, get ready to be blown away. (For the dramatic effects) Who is she? She is Dr Fariha Bugti, one of Pakistan’s ...
Hamza Ali Abassi, popular actor and well known supporter of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf on Thursday night tweeted what we think was supposed to be a heartfelt message. The tweet was directed at the son of the ...
In response to the deadly Pulwama attack, India launched pre-emptive air strikes across the LoC, against the militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed. While Indian media claims that 350 JeM militants have been targeted and killed, Pakistani journalists visiting ...
Less than a fortnight ago, the Pulwama attack claimed the lives of over 40 Indian Soldiers. Among the soldiers who passed away in the attack was Babloo Santra who hailed from Howrah, West Bengal. As tension between ...
As tensions escalate between the two nuclear nations, Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai took to twitter to share a message of peace. Malala tweeted with the hashtag #SayNoToWar which has been trending on twitter for the ...
Lot has happened since India violated Pakistan’s airspace and dropped the payload. For one, they violated the Air Space again. Here are all the major headlines that took over after. Pakistan will respond to uncalled-for ...
Following in the footsteps of the Pakistani leadership, the citizens seem more inclined to taking a measured and mature position on the hostile responses from it’s neighbour. Soon after Pakistan announced successful airstrikes across the ...
Throughout Tuesday, the news was rife with reports of Line of Control violation by Indian Air Forces and the subsequent payload drop at Balakot. While India claims 350 militants of JeM, a militant group that ...
The International Olympic Committee has suspended all Indian applications to host future events and urged international sports federations not to stage competitions in the country after two Pakistanis were denied visas to compete in New ...
On 21st February, the young Pakistan People’s Chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari spoke at the Oxford Union His talk came at a time when Pakistan is much backlash from India, due to the recent events in ...
On 14th February 2019, an attack in Indian occupied Kashmir led to the death of more than 40 Indian soldiers. Jaish-E-Mohammad, a militant group, based in Pakistan has been blamed for the attack. Whats more, ...
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, visited Pakistan for two days starting Sunday. The visit comes at a time when Pakistan’s ties with its neighbour India are under duress due to the ...
Who are the Uighurs? Uighurs are the oldest Turkic speaking people of Central Asia; they have been mentioned in Chinese records dating back to the 3rd century CE. In the 8th century, the Uighurs established ...
Aleem Khan is known to be one of the biggest financiers of current ruling party, the Imran Khan led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf. His arrest and physical remand by the National Accountability Bureau has shocked more than ...
The Faizabad protest of 2017, orchestrated by the right-wing Islamist party, Tehreek-e-Labaik held the city of Islamabad hostage for 21 days. The leaders of the TLP, including Khadim Hussain Rizvi, openly threatened, abused and promoted ...
1947 The year marked the end of British rule and partition of sub-continent into mainly Hindu majority India and the Muslim majority state of Pakistan. Late 1947 The Maharaja of Kashmir signs a treaty of ...
Sherry Rehman has presented an amendment to the Child Marriage Restriction Act of 1929 that sets the marriageable age of girls at 16 and of boys at 18. Rehman argued that the marriageable age of girls be raised ...
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After eight years of being on death row, Aasia Bibi was acquitted by the Supreme Court in October 2017. But even after being declared innocent, Aasia remained a hostage in Pakistan as the Islamist party ...
On Wednesday, 23rd January, Finance Minister Asad Umar rolled over government’s third finance bill in their efforts to stabalise the plummeting economy. Government believes that the new mini-budget plan will help to generate more revenue ...
The Chinese government has provided 50 motorcycles and 200 bulletproof jackets to Gilgit-Baltistan government to ensure the security of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor route in the region. The provision of motorcycles and jackets is part of ...
The opposition leader in the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly on Wednesday alleged that two judges’ posts, including that of chief judge of GB Supreme Appellate Court, had been kept vacant deliberately. Captain retired Mohammad Shafi Khan ...
In a positive development, China is most likely to park $2 billion in Pakistan reserves sometime in the ongoing month of December, and, more importantly, the economic diplomacy with the UAE is also going to ...
Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi reached Kabul to attend the 2nd meeting of China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Trilateral Mechanism, starting today (Dec 15). 1. Afghanistan is hosting a three-way meeting with neighbours China and Pakistan to ...
Every day approximately 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our oceans. There may now be around 5.25 trillion macro and microplastic pieces floating in the open ocean weighing up to 269,000 ...
An Australian citizen returned the statue of Buddha belonging to the Gandhara civilization of Pakistan as a goodwill gesture. 1. The statue was in the possession of Ms Romy Dingle, an Australian citizen whose mother ...
Recently famous journalist and anchor Nusrat Javed came at the center of Pakistani Twitter after claiming that he survived an assumption attempt and blamed Imran Khan for it. After some storm on Twitter the journalist said ...
PML-N MNA Khwaja Saad Rafiq alleges that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is using drugs and torture as tools for extracting ‘favourable’ statements from the people arrested in the Paragon Housing Society scam. “Qaiser Amin ...
This piece has been contributed by our featured writer Muneeb Khan. Prime Minister Imran khan gave a detailed interview to a panel of journalists from different organizations, on several subjects of national standing, stretching ...
Once again, the raging bull of Pakistani economy is in debates. This time, initiated after a “Chicken Economy” statement from the PM of Pakistan. What Happened? The Prime Minister in a speech claimed to change ...
As the PTI government moves towards completing its first 100 days in office, Prime Minister Imran Khan has decided to address the nation about the progress made by his government. Similarly, earlier, Federal Minster of ...
Yesterday, news reports of recently acquitted Asia Bibi being flown from the Multan’s women prison to an “unkown destination” was spread across social media. On Thursday, the Foreign Office Spokesperson, Dr Muhammad Faisal denied the ...
Recently in a tragic turn of events, the Pakistani government signed a contract with the TLP, who had caused nation wide unrest for 3 continuous days. Prior to this, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, in ...
Mulana Sami Ul Haq, former senator and influential religious leader, was assassinated by unknown men in his house in Rawalpindi.
تازہ ترین اطلاعات کے مطابق کونگو، ڈئنگی اور ئیبولا سے زیادہ خطرناک موذی مرض کے کئی نئے واقعات منظر عام پہ آئے ہیں۔ اس مرض کا نام ماہرین نے جنون چندہ بتایا ہے۔ دارالحکومت میں ...
ضمنی انتخابات 2018 کے نتائج کئی سیاسی ماہرین کی توقعات کے برعکس ہیں۔ لاہور اور بنو سے پی ٹی آئی کی شکست حکومت اور عوام کے مابین عدم اعتماد کی کہانی سناتی ہے۔ پنجاب میں ...
The by-elections yesterday yielded some interesting results all the while re-creating the fervent partisan atmosphere that the country was embroiled in during the General Elections just months ago. The by-elections were held in constituencies where ...
The government has taken a decision to get in touch with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to come up with a solution to Pakistan’s financial crisis. Finance Minister Asad Umar recently uploaded a video on ...
2018 so far has not been the year of the Sharifs. Neither has 2017 for that matter. From Nawaz Sharif’s disqualification in 2017 to the consequent arrest and jailing of him and daughter Maryam Nawaz ...
It is a tragedy that World Tourism Day on September 27th passed by with no celebration or event taking place in the tourism hub of Pakistan – Gilgit. After the ignorance shown towards the day, ...
Earlier this month, newly appointed PM Imran Khan stated that Bengali and Afghani refugees born in Pakistan should be given citizenship. This spurred a debate within the assembly, with particular opposition from PPP. PM Khan’s ...
Dissent is patriotic. It is a phrase that has become synonymous with all the resistance movements such as the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement, which demands better of the establishment. It has also come to denote the ...
The jail sentences issues on Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz and Mohammad Safdar in the Avenfield corruption Case have been rendered null and void by the Islamabad High Court. The Sharif’s made their appeal against the ...
It has been almost a month since Imran Khan was sworn in as Prime Minister of Naya Pakistan and the premier has done little to undo his image as a master of backtracking from what ...
Nawaz Sharif’s wife, Maryam Nawaz’s mother and former thrice made first lady of Pakistan Kulsoom Nawaz breathed her last in her London on September 11th, 2018. Her husband and daughter, Nawaz and Maryam, have been ...
In the wee hours of the morning, Prime Minister Imran Khan was rushed to the nearest hospital via a helicopter. Rest assured, Fawad Chaurdhary – a man known to stick to his word through thick and ...
Moments ago it was announced that the PTI government required Princeton University graduate and member of the Economic Advisory Council, Atif R. Mian to step down. The news was announced on social media by PTI ...
The government of Imran Khan has been out and about introducing new laws that pretty much hinder the VIP movement of several officials. Unlike before they are not allowed to live up to various luxuries ...
Pakistanis are in a frenzy over a Dutch contest with blasphemous connotations for the Muslim world. Even Prime Minister Imran Khan has taken notice of the derrogatory contest, which defames Islam and the Prophet (SAW). ...
Pakistan politics at times is no less than a Star Plus drama. Many times, we have seen our politicians go through Kasauti Zindagi Ki and Son Pari-ing from unfavorable situations. Certainly, the best screenplay can be made ...
Pakistan Tehreek-Insaf leader, Asad Qaiser has become the 20th Speaker of National Assembly as per the oath taking ceremony that took place on Wednesday. Qaiser was able to score 166 votes that resulted in his ...
Lahore: On Thursday night, when Shaani called Maani, two residents and friends from Old Lahore, they decided to go out and have dinner. As always both friends expected dinner to end with a discussion on ...
Monday’s National Assembly session – the 15th one to date – is being cited as the ‘dawn’ of Naya Pakistan by many on social media. The event was highly publicized and tweeted about throughout the ...
Getting Pakistan to the relatively stable state that it’s in today has been an arduous series of unfortunate events. This independent, democratic state is the result of a lot of bloodshed and sacrifices made on ...
Azam Khan Swati is the senior VP of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf. Swati holds a law degree from the University of Houston with a doctorate in Jurisprudence. He began his career in the States where he earned ...
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is all set to welcome Imran Khan as the new Prime Minister; the oath taking ceremony will take place on August 11th 2018. The news regarding attendees for the highly anticipated official ceremony ...
Kamran Bangash is a 30-year-old doctor with a vociferous urge to be of social service. Bangash was fielded as a candidate for PK-77 in Peshawar; he competed against 14 other members. He stepped into the ...
Zartaj Gul is a member of PTI’s Core Committee. Not only that but she has been a PTI activist since around 2005 when she first joined the party. She has recently won the constituency of ...
Justice Retired Nasira Javed Iqbal – daughter-in-law of Allama Iqbal – could very well be Pakistan’s next president. This is an exciting concept for many, considering her education, poise, and also considering what having a ...
Elections this time brought forth some shaky results: although PTI was the party that won most seats in the National Assembly, it fell short of the 172 that are required to attain a majority in ...
Reham Khan, the infamous ex-wife of Pakistan’s newest Prime Minister has been under fire since before the elections. Though the filth being spewed in her direction began soon after her divorce, it has only gotten ...
Recently dismissed and jailed for 10 years former 17th Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif has recently been shifted to a hospital. Sharif is said to have been transported from Adiala Jail to Islamabad’s PIMS – ...
Activist, lawyer and independent candidate Jibran Nasir lost to PTI in the constituencies in the elections of 2018. However, the results showed him standing second to popular votes in all the areas. Only official results ...
It is understandable why the entire Pakistani population is completely invested in the rather historic elections that took place on July 25th 2018. In what is being called Imran Khan’s 22 year long struggle that ...
The last 24 hours have been nothing short of a roller coaster ride. Not only did the General Elections take place but the many glitches in the result announcement have kept the population on the ...
All of Pakistan and PTI supporters across the globe are delving deeply into the joy of Imran Khan finally becoming Pakistan’s 19th Official Prime Minister. Amongst the celebrators is Shireen Mazari’s daughter Imaan Zainab Mazari. ...
The day was full of anxiety on a national scale. People are still stressfully glued to see the results that will seal Pakistan’s fate for the next five years. Amidst all the tensions, complaints, and ...
With what are anticipated to be the most historic elections in the history of Pakistan, a lot of precautions have been taken to ensure fair and just elections. Arrangements have been made by Election Commission ...
On a surface level, Khan and Baratheon don’t have a whole lot in common. Khan is loud, expressive, animated – Baratheon acts like he’s charged a price if he acts cheerful. But there are some ...
Comedian Shehzad Ghias said the following about Election Day today. His following words are certainly pondering over no matter the results today: Go out and vote tomorrow everyone. Personally, I’d prefer you vote for people like ...
There have been some truly golden moments in the course of Pakistani politics lately. As we came nearer and nearer to general elections, it seems our politicians found themselves overwhelmed by the pressure. This resulted ...
NA-29 now known as NA-3 Swat is an important seat for all parties considered. Historically no party has had continuous success here. Mostly independent candidates have won. In 2008 ANP won the seat and in ...
The fateful Election Day is a mere 3 days away and as anticipated several covertly asked questions are coming into light. Given the history of Pakistan’s general elections, people have raised major concerns about how ...
Since January 2017, the fate of several Pakistani activists has been worrisome, stirring movements within the country. These movements have put forth the demand to help make the activists return home. The first activist to ...
We’re less than a week away from elections, and the Twitter storm just keeps on getting more and more intense. PTI and PML-N supporters, perhaps most especially, seem unable to curb their anticipation. Consequently, they ...
A military coup, by definition, is when an existing government is violently overthrown by the armed forces. This is commonly executed to create a sense of panic especially at a time when the governance is ...
Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz and Captain Safdar were jailed a few weeks apart. Their arrest was due to the forgery of documents, lying under oath when in court and failing to provide legal evidence of ...
Though there is a list of mainstream parties that have been making rounds on both social and television media; there are a separate plethora of political parties that aren’t that well-known. These parties have their ...
As the election day approaches, Pakistan’s major political parties are making the headlines day in and day out. However, there are a few far-right wing parties contesting this years elections as well. We’ve compiled a ...
NA-129 is a constituency in Lahore, which under the previous census was NA-125. This area mainly consists of DHA and Cantonment. PML-N has won this race in the previous general elections, twice. This time around ...
NA-125 is one of the most crucial and decisive constituencies of Pakistan. It is that very seat which will decide the fate of Lahore’s enthronement. Dr. Yasmeen Rashid or Waheed Alam Khan, who is going ...
In the insane public debacle that was Nawaz and Maryam’s homecoming, there have been too many updates to keep track of. These past 24 hours, Twitter has played a critical role in shaping public sentiment. Whether ...
A recent court hearing declared Nawaz Sharif and Maryam Nawaz guilty in the Avenfield reference leading to 10 and 7 years of imprisonment respectively. To accept their fate, the two are meant to arrive at ...
While Imran Khan is all set to take Lahore by storm, another Khan has cooked up a different kind of tsunami some several thousand miles away. Merely hours ago, Reham Khan’s much anticipated and allegedly ...
If you Google the word ‘lota’ an image of around and stout vessel will crop up. This vessel is largely unknown in western cultures but has deep-seated roots in ours. The term ‘lota’ is also ...
PML-N’s Khawaja Asif and PTI’s Usman Dar are going to be competing for the NA-73 constituency of Sialkot. With the former recovering from a recent disqualification and the latter hailing from an important political background ...
A very close call is expected in NA 60 as Awami Muslim League’s Sheikh Rasheed and PML-N’s Hanif Abbasi go neck and neck in their respective polls. Sheikh Rasheed Party – Awami Muslim League AML ...
The toughest competition for the running of NA-57 – Murree is between Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Sadaqat Abbasi. Here is a quick rundown of their political histories and mandates so each an every voter can ...
Jibran Nasir was born on February 10th 1987 in Karachi. At age 31 he is an activist, an advocate and has made a decent name for himself as a blogger. However, in 2018 he is ...
If you’re living in Pakistan and don’t know what has escalated in the past 24 hours, what rock are you even living under? Back in 2017, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed several cases against ...
Just a few hours ago, human rights activist, advocate, and independent candidate for NA-247 Jibran Nasir was arrested in Karachi. Nasir was forced out of his car, beaten, his clothes ripped and dragged across the ...
With the elections nearly less than a month away, every political leader across the nation has been putting forth a series of their proposals. At one end, despite being dismissed from the running, the Sharif ...
As the fateful date of the 2018 elections nears its day in the sun, it seems like all the expectant political leaders have pulled out the big guns. Amongst them is the (once) beloved Khan. ...
On Sunday, the 3rd of June members of the Pashtun Tahaffuz movement (PTM) were attacked and killed by a group of armed men claiming to be the Taliban. At least three PTM supporters are reportedly ...
In a marriage that lasted from January 6th to October 30th in 2015, Imran Khan and his former wife Reham Khan have made the headlines regularly, since. At the height of his political career, 3 ...
IK: the initials unbeknown to none. The initials represent the complacent bearing and exuding the confidence of a face that gives permanence to a hope that is nearly extinguished. The hope of Naya Pakistan. The ...
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research analysis division of The Economist Group, has made several predictions about the political atmosphere of Pakistan following the general elections. The main prediction perhaps won’t sit well with opposition ...
Retired Lieutenant General, Asad Durrani and Amarjit Singh Dulat have recently published a book that seemingly reveals all. Whether it is the surgical strikes or the very precarious India-Pakistan relationship, Durrani who headed the ISI ...
IK: the initials unbeknown to none. The initials represent the complacent bearing and exuding the confidence of a face that gives permanence to a hope that is nearly extinguished. The hope of Naya Pakistan. The ...
The National Assembly passed a bill today to pave the way for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) to be merged with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). This is a feat for Pakistan Tehreek -i- Insaf, who ...
A day ago, PTI held a special event to announce its ‘100 Days Agenda’ should the party come to power after the general elections. And within 24 hours, the opposition parties and their supporters have gone ...
The Press Council of Pakistan has recently served a notice to the editors at Dawn, claiming a violation of the Ethical Code of Conduct. Their claim is based on a published interview of Nawaz Sharif ...
Amidst great anticipation, Imran Khan has unveiled a strategic agenda for PTI’s first 100 days should the party succeed in the upcoming general elections. As political parties gear up a for a grueling few months, PTI has ...
Born in Sarwakai in 1992, the figure of Manzoor Ahmed Pashteen is a 26-year-old product of the US-led war on terror. Not only did he live in a country where the word “Taliban” was gaining ...
In the latest news from the hub of jalsas i.e. Pakistan, there has been a clash between PPP and PTI over their venue for the upcoming rallies on May 12. Both parties had announced to ...
After PTI and PML-N’s massive rallies, PPP has also come out with their first power charged show in the shape of their Quetta jalsa. The Pakistan People’s Party held its rally in Balochistan, the long-neglected ...
PML-N’s Rana Sanaullah is once again in the public eye for all the wrong reasons. Sanaullah currently faces intense criticism over his questionable remarks on the women present at the PTI jalsa earlier this week. ...
In a grand show of political zealousness, PTI had a successful Jalsa at Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore. In what is being called a big power show before the elections, Imran Khan gave a powerful speech about the ...
Last Saturday, the Chief Justice, while being chauffeured to the supreme court in his people’s mobile – a bullet proof Mercedes – was held up due to the road block caused by the Pashtun March. ...
In a rare display of bipartisan support for legislation, the Parliament has voted to amend the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) to add a new defense for criminal and civil charges, which will appear alongside the ...
The decision to appoint a caretaker government was announced in January of this year. Deliberations began in March and several names have been thrown into the mix. These include candidates for a caretaker Prime Minister, ...
In a cruel twist of fate the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (CIED) has disappeared itself. While it was not bundled into an unmarked car by men in civilian clothing with surprising tactical coordination, ...
Author: Afia Iqbal Any Pakistani watching the local news the past few days must have been suitably perturbed in some manner by the ongoing events – either by the phone calls of loved ones unable ...
On January 6 this year Pakistan was reeling from the brutal rape and murder of 6-year-old Zainab Amin. Six days later, across the border, an 8-year-old girl, Asifa Bano suffered the same fate in India ...
In a historic decision, the Supreme Court has barred PML-N Leader Nawaz Sharif from politics for life. All five members of the SC bench voted in favor of the disbarment. PTI’s Jahangir Tareen also faces the same ...
March 19, 2018, the political world was in uproar as Amir Liaquat joined PTI. No. This is not fake news. Even though most of us wish it was. But Imran warmly welcomed Amir into his ...
Karachi: infamous for its permanent blots of blood-red paan pichkaris, ever growing heaps of eternal garbage and seemingly immovable gruff Punjabi Rangers has finally gotten good at disposing off its most permanent stain – the ...
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