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ISTANBULPakistan’s incarcerated former Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted bail in the "£190 million ($236 million) reference" or Al Qadir Trust case on Wednesday, his lawyer Naeem Panjutha said.The bail was granted a day before Khan was scheduled to appear before the Supreme Court of Pakistan via video link ...

After 15 years as a fugitive, Piran Ditta Khan was handed a life sentence on Friday for leading an armed robbery that ended with the police officer Sharon Beshenivsky being shot dead.Khan fled the country after the 2005 robbery and lived in Pakistan until the UK government extradited him ...

Free-press advocates are calling on de facto Taliban authorities in Afghanistan to release a local reporter jailed on unspecified charges. Habib Rahman Taseer, a former Pashto-language reporter for Azadi Radio — a Prague-based affiliate of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, VOA’s parent organization — was detained by the ...

KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistan's jailed ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party made a maiden contact with the coalition government led by Premier Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday, in a first sign of political reconciliation between arch-rivals after the Feb. 8 general elections. Khan-backed chief minister of northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Ali ...

Islamabad —  Prison authorities in Pakistan on Tuesday abruptly banned all meetings and visits to incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan for two weeks over a “security alert,” drawing a sharp rebuke from his political party and legal counsels. The 71-year-old former Pakistani leader is serving long prison terms ...

Warraich said a search operation continued throughout the previous day, therefore, no meeting was allowed with the PTI founder. Published Date - 9 March 2024, 09:19 PM Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court has ordered the Adiala Jail authorities to permit only those individuals to meet ...

More than five years ago, when Sadhak Sama returned home from work, he realised his octogenarian father Latif Sama has gone missing. Since then, the family living in Juna village of Kutch district near the Indo-Pak border continues to hope for Latif’s return.Latif, a cattle herder and practitioner of ...

A court in Pakistan is set to hear the bail petition of Aliya Hamza Malik, a former parliamentarian who has been in jail for nearly 10 months for protesting against the arrest of her Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s founder and former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Nationwide street protests had ...

Shehbaz Sharif was voted in as Pakistan's prime minister for a second timeFollowers of Imran Khan were shut out of the national electionSharif now has to deal with increasing inflation and instances of terror attacks By Perkin Amalaraj Published: 09:57 GMT, 3 March 2024 | Updated: 10:58 GMT, 3 March ...

Pakistan court indicts jailed ex-premier Imran Khan, his wife in 190 million pounds corruption case ISLAMABAD: An accountability court in Pakistan on Tuesday indicted Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the 190 million pounds Al Qadir corruption case, in another blow to the beleaguered former prime minister ...