The Foreign Office on Tuesday rejected PTI leader Shahbaz Gill’s claims that the cypher — at the centre of PTI’s foreign conspiracy claims — received from the Pakistani embassy in Washington was initially hidden from then-prime minister Imran Khan and then-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi. In a short statement issued …
Read More »Coalition vows to do all it takes to ‘salvage’ Punjab govt
• Top leadership to go to polls after assembly completes term, will give ‘tough time’ to PTI • PTI to lodge MPAs in hotel to thwart PML-N’s bid to influence them ahead of CM’s election • Zardari apparently seeks Shujaat’s help to save Hamza Shehbaz’s office LAHORE: Following a crushing …
Read More »Ahsan Iqbal highlights plan to boost economy
WASHINGTON: Federal Minister Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal highlighted the current government’s plan for boosting the national economy and rebuilding the relationship with the United States at a Sunday night dinner in Washington — hours after PTI trounced the ruling coalition in the Punjab by-elections. He repeated some of these …
Read More »Early elections likely if Punjab, KP assemblies dissolved: PML-N leader
LAHORE: Federal Minister Mian Javed Latif of the PML-N announced that the coalition government was ready to announce early elections, provided PTI chairman Imran Khan dissolved the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies where his party was in power. “I am in favour of fresh elections. If Imran announces dissolution of …
Read More »A bitter taste of unpopular decisions
LAHORE: The ‘unexpected’ sweeping victory of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) in the all-important Punjab by-polls is set to influence the political as well as economic future of the country. The result establishes that the voters didn’t like the unpopular decisions of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz both on economic and political …
Read More »PTI stuns PML-N with thumping win
• Imran calls for general election under ‘credible ECP’ • Maryam accepts her party’s defeat • 15 seats go to PTI, four to PML-N LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Sunday routed the PML-N by winning at least 15 seats in the crucial by-elections on 20 seats that got vacated after …
Read More »Efforts on to allay tensions after days of violence in Sindh
KARACHI: With violence escalating in the wake of the killing of 35-year-old Bilal Kaka, political leaders continued efforts to allay the tensions and appealed to people to beware of conspiracies that aim to sow the seed of disharmony among Sindhis and Pashtuns. On Friday, the Sindh government announced that another …
Read More »By-elections and more
IT may seem that it is just 20, or some five per cent, of the total 371 seats of the Punjab Assembly which are at stake in this Sunday’s by-elections, but, in fact, a lot more is at risk — not only in the province but also at the national level. …
Read More »Power not conferred
FRANZ Kafka’schef d’oeuvre The Trial portrays the ordeal of Joseph K, who undergoes arbitrary arrest, investigation and prosecution. Throughout the novel, the nature of Joseph’s crime is not revealed to him. Moreover, it remains undisclosed why he was prosecuted, who prosecuted him and under what law he was prosecuted. At the end, …
Read More »Saudi Arabia to open airspace to all airlines, including from Israel
Saudi Arabia said it would open its airspace to all air carriers, paving the way for more overflights to and from Israel, in a decision welcomed by US President Joe Biden who is due to visit the kingdom on Friday. The Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said the …
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