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PILDAT says Feb 8 polls record lowest fairness score since 2013

  The Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) has issued a report detailing its assessment of the recently-concluded general election, expressing deep concerns over a decline in fairness scores compared to previous election cycles.

Pakistan ex-PM Imran Khan and wife Bushra Bibi jailed for illegal marriage

  A Pakistani court has jailed Imran Khan and his wife for seven years after voiding their marriage, in the latest sentence against the ex-prime minister. 

Violation of Air space, Pakistan to recall ambassador from Iran

  The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday said Pakistan has decided to recall its ambassador from Iran and suspend all high-level visits ongoing or planned between the two countries following the “unprovoked violation of its airspace” by Tehran. 

Missing person returns home after six years with Rs500

  KARACHI: A government employee, Mohammad Javaid Khan, who went ‘missing’ six years ago in Karachi, was left on road with Rs 500. 

Pervaiz Illahi appointed President of Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaaf (PTI)

Lahore : Chairman Imran Khan has officially appointed Choudry Pervaiz Illahi President of Pakistan Tahreek Insaaf .

Who is Most Popular Politician of Pakistan , Check it via Gallup

  PTI Chairman Imran Khan is “positively rated” among 61 per cent of Pakistanis, whereas only 36 per cent have a “good opinion” about PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, according to a survey titled Public Pulse Report published by Gallup Pakistan on Monday.

Bilawal warns to quit Shahbaz govt

  KARACHI : Foreign Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Sunday expressed serious reservation on the ongoing census, saying that his party backed the digital enumeration but opposed the way it was being carried out. 

Imran invites Aitzaz Ahsan to Join PTI

  LAHORE: In a meeting with Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior leader Aitzaz Ahsan, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran khan said he wants him to join PTI, ARY News reported on Tuesday. 

Pakistan police file FIR into Imran Khan shooting

  Police in Pakistan have filed a report into last week’s attack on former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was shot and wounded in the leg during a protest march. But it has been criticized as a “mockery” by his party. 

Imran Khan asks President Alvi to investigate military

  In a letter to the president, ex-PM questions how military officials can hold a press briefing targeting a political leader.  Former Prime Minister Imran Khan has asked President Arif Alvi to initiate an inquiry into a news conference held by Pakistan’s powerful intelligence agency, which he has accused of orchestrating the attack on him. 

Azam Swati video: CJP Bandial tells PTI senator to ‘stay strong’

  Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial on Monday said that the Supreme Court’s (SC) human rights cell was looking into the objectionable video involving Senator Azam Swati and his wife, which the PTI leader says was sent to him and is from his stay at the apex court’s judicial lodges in Quetta. 

Govt Reverses PEMRA Ban on Imran Khan

Islamabad: Govt has reversed the decision of PEMRA to ban TV Channels to air Imran Khan's Speeches and Press Conferences.

Azam Swati claims receiving objectionable video featuring him and his wife

  PTI Senator Azam Swati burst into tears before the media on Saturday, saying that his wife had received a video featuring him and her and about which he could not share further details because the “daughters of my country are listening”. 

Imran Khan Seriously Injured after Long March Convoy attacked by gunmen at Wazir Abad

  PTI chief Imran Khan, Senator Faisal Javed and several other party leaders were among those wounded in gunfire on the long march container at Wazirabad’s Allah Wala Chowk on Thursday. 

Renowned ARY Journalist Moeed Pirzada leaves Pakistan

  ISLAMABAD: Senior journalist Moeed Pirzada has left Pakistan and reached the United Kingdom (UK) on Sunday.

Imran’s absence from march fuels guessing game

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chair­man Imran Khan’s sudden disappearance from the party’s long march, soon after the sunset and party’s Secretary General Asad Umar announcing that Mr Khan has left for Lahore to attend a “very important meeting”, left the media and the participants speculating. 

PTI's Azadi March kicks off today from Liberty Chowk Lahore

  Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan after reaching Lahore’s Liberty Chowk where his party’s ‘Haqeeqi Azadi’ (Real freedom) march to Islamabad is set to commence, said that he knows a lot of things about DG ISI, but is quiet only because he doesn’t want to harm the country. “DG ISI open your ears and listen, I know a lot of things, but I am quiet only because I don’t want to harm my country… I do constructive criticism for betterment otherwise there was a lot I could say,” the PTI chief in a speech at the chowk said.  Speaking to cheering crowds at Liberty Chowk, Imran said that unlike Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, he was "not a runaway who would either sit quietly here [in Pakistan] or criticize the military in London".  "I am not going to leave this country. I will live and die in this country," added the PTI chief.  “I want to see a Pakistan that is free, and to have a free country you need a powerful military,” he said, addin

PTI leadership responds to ISPR allegation, says Imran made no unconstitutional demands in back door talks

  PTI leader Asad Umar on Thursday, in response to a press conference by Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Nadeem Ahmed Anjum and Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) DG Lt Gen Babar Iftikhar about former premier Imran Khan’s confrontational narrative against the military, said that his party chief never made any unconstitutional demands in “back door talks”. 

Yes, I advised Arshad to leave Pakistan, Imran Khan

  An overwhelming three days after the tragic murder of journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya sent shockwaves across the nation, many are still fixated on debates involving what the victim did while he was alive instead of determining the realities behind his death.

Journalist Arshad Sharif laid to rest at Islamabad’s H-11 graveyard

  Slain journalist Arshad Sharif — who was shot dead amid mysterious circumstances in Kenya on Sunday last week — was laid to rest at the H-11 graveyard in Islamabad on Thursday with hundreds of people in attendance.

Army, ISI in unprecedented presser question Arshad Sharif's exit from Pakistan, point to PTI's involvement

  In an explosive and unexpected press conference, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Nadeem Ahmed Anjum joined Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) DG Lt Gen Babar Iftikhar to speak about journalist Arshad Sharif's killing and former premier Imran Khan's confrontational narrative against the military, as well as a host of other related topics.

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