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Dozens of police and troops have been assigned to Khan’s Islamabad residence; security forces will also escort him whenever he travels; says he has video message detailing plot. Source link

The National Security Council, a body of top civil and military leaders, says it found no evidence to support any conspiracy theory.Pakistan’s National Security Council, a body of top civil and military leaders, has rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s accusations that the United States had conspired to topple ...

ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s top body of civil and military leaders on Friday rejected former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s claims that his government was toppled at the behest of the US. Since his ouster this month in a parliamentary vote of confidence, Khan has repeatedly accused Washington of backing the move, claiming he ...

Amid an avalanche of criticism over the botched Western pullout from Afghanistan, PM Boris Johnson nevertheless lauded UK airlift efforts to meet a “remorseless deadline in harrowing conditions”, while President Joe Biden hailed the "extraordinary success” of the massive evacuation of over 120,000 people per day.John Major levelled excoriating ...

Issued on: 04/03/2021 - 12:41Modified: 04/03/2021 - 14:02 A French court on Thursday acquitted former prime minister Edouard Balladur on corruption charges after he was accused of using kickbacks from an arms deal but handed a suspended jail term to his former defence minister. The verdict by the Law ...

LONDON — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz along with close associates and family members offered funeral prayers for his mother Begum Shamim Akhtar in London on Friday.The prayers attended by a limited number of participants were held amid strict coronavirus preventive measures in London Central Mosque, which is also ...

Pakistan’s military Tuesday announced the suspension of a number of intelligence officers and troops accused by opposition leaders last month of abducting a provincial police chief to pressure him to arrest the son-in-law of exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif The unusual action by the military comes three weeks ...

Several police officers on Tuesday applied for leave in order to “come out of the shock” caused by the registration of an FIR and arrest of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Mohammad Safdar, according to Dawn.The officers include at least two additional inspectors general, seven deputy inspectors general ...

Nawaz Sharif, the former prime minister of Pakistan, has accused army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa of toppling his government in 2017 and installing Imran Khan as prime minister the following year.  Sharif was addressing a gathering of tens of thousands of workers from Pakistan's opposition parties in the eastern city of Gujranwala via ...

A Pakistani court has formally charged former President Asif Ali Zardari in two corruption cases, while a provincial government has admitted a case of sedition against three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and 40 others, including the premier of Pakistan-administered Kashmir. The cases against these high-profile names come as ...