ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday announced to form a high-level commission to investigate systematic corruption by the former ruling elite that led Pakistan into a massive debt trap over the last 10 years. The new commission, that will probe the massive debt Pakistan owes to the ...

ISLAMABAD - Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has started recording his statement in Al-Azizia reference before the accountability court in Islamabad. The supreme leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz arrived at the court amid tight surveillance and is recording his statement under Section 342 ...

ISLAMABAD – The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government has constituted a task force to bring the looted money back to the country, Finance Minister Asad Umer announced on Monday. Some 200 billion dollars is believed to have been kept in the Swiss banks by several political leaders. “A task ...

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court(IHC) has reserved the verdict on a slew of pleas filed by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam Nawaz and son-in-law Captain (retd) Safdar seeking suspension of the verdict in the Avenfield properties reference. A two-member IHC bench ...

LAHORE - Former chief minister and president Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has expressed that water shortage was a big challenge and if his party comes into power after general elections 2018, they would construct Bhasha Dam and generate 4000 MW electricity from it within ...

ISLAMABAD - Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif blamed Tehreek-e-Insaf chief, Imran Khan for the slapping incident in which PTI’s Naeemul Haque physically assaulted PML-N’s Daniyal Aziz on camera. Speaking to newsmen outside the accountability court on Wednesday, the leader of ruling Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD - Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter Maryam, and son-in-law, Captain (r) Safdar will record their statement in the Avenfield properties reference on Friday. The directives were issued by the accountability court as it resumed hearing the graft cases against the former ...

ISLAMABAD - The chairman of National Accountability Bureau, Justice (r) Javaid Iqbal has ordered to verify the allegations against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and others for money laundering. In a press release, the anti-corruption watchdog took notice of the media reports regarding alleged ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court has ordered to restore former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s lawful security, days after the unauthorized officials in all the four provinces were stripped of additional security. Hearing a suo motu case related to security protocol of individuals with no official ...

LAHORE - Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif asserted on Friday that the recent verdict by the supreme court- which sealed his parliamentary political career for life - was well expected, adding that he was being subjected to victimisation. In an informal conversation with party loyalists after ...

ISLAMABAD - The supreme court dismissed a slew of contempt of court petitions filed against the embattled former Premier Nawaz Sharif and federal ministers Daniyal Aziz and Khawaja Saad Rafique. The apex court dismissed the petitions on Wednesday, filed by Sheikh Ahsanuddin, a member of the ...

LAHORE - Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif was elected unopposed the president of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz, weeks after he took up the charge in an interim capacity. The decision to elect the younger Sharif as party's president was made last month after the Supreme Court disqualified former ...

ISLAMABAD - The supreme court seems to have sealed the Hudaibiya case reference once and for all, observing that the case was used as a tool for oppression of former ruling family. In its detailed judgment, that was put forth on Friday, the top court highlighted that the reference had exceeded ...

LAHORE - Former president Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan People’s Party chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Thursday denied providing a political support to the Nawaz Sharif-government in the past, calling it a ‘public misconception’. “There is a misconception among people that we had ...

KASUR - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan slammed the incumbent government over non-provision of heath and other basic necessities to the masses on Sunday, claiming that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spent at least Rs12 billion from the national treasury on advertisements. Addressing ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was elected unopposed as the president of Pakistan Muslim League-N, party sources said on Tuesday. Soon after his re-election as PML-N president, Nawaz Sharif took opposition leader Imran Khan on his Nov 2 plan to shut down capital Islamabad. “After every ...