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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: AP)

Like Nawaz, Imran Khan seems wary of politicians

It appears that Khan shares Mian Nawaz Sharif’s distrust of politicians.

05 Sep 2018 1:35 AM

PTI nominated Alvi as its candidate hours after party chief Khan was sworn in as the 22nd prime minister of the country on August 18. (Photo: File)

In Pakistan President election, it's PM's pick vs Opposition's chosen 2

PPP's Aitzaz Ahsan and JUI-F's Maulana Fazlur Rehman emerged as the two candidates who will challenge PTI's Dr Arif Alvi.

27 Aug 2018 2:52 PM

Khan also decided to use only two vehicles and keep two servants. He refused to use elaborate official protocol. (Photo: File)

Pak bans 1st class air travel by leaders, officials, work hours revised

The decisions were made at a Cabinet meeting, chaired by PM Imran Khan on Friday, according to Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry.

25 Aug 2018 1:54 PM

Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam Nawaz (Photo: File/Twitter)

PML-N leaders not allowed to meet Sharif and daughter

The case stemmed from the Panama Papers leak that disclosed expensive and undeclared property owned by the Sharif family in London.

24 Aug 2018 12:58 AM

He added that the law ministry has been asked to get in touch with the British government over the Avenfield properties in London. Chaudhry remarked that 'Avenfield properties belonged to Pakistan.' (Photo: File | AP)

Pakistan's federal cabinet to put Nawaz Sharif, daughter on Exit Control List

The cabinet asked for red warrants to be issued against Sharif's sons, Hussain Nawaz and Hassan Nawaz and former finance minister Ishaq Dar.

21 Aug 2018 4:39 PM

Sharif appeared before the Islamabad-based court for hearing in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills and the Hill Metal Establishment cases. (Photo: File)

Paid day-to-day expenses of PM House from my own pocket: Sharif

Sharif's comments came a day after PM Khan, in his first address broke down the expenses of the Prime Minister House.

20 Aug 2018 5:12 PM

Sharif, the younger brother of jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, served as the chief minister of the politically crucial Punjab province from 2013 to 2018. (Photo: AP)

PML-N chief Shahbaz Sharif set to become leader of opposition in NA

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan defeated Sharif in a one-sided election in National Assembly to become the 22nd PM of Pakistan.

19 Aug 2018 1:25 PM

A file photo of Atal Behari Vajpayee with US President Bill Clinton

A visionary who reshaped India’s global role

Vajpayee wanted to allay Pakistani fears that India, particularly his own party, the BJP, wanted to undo the Partition of 1947.

18 Aug 2018 1:22 AM

Former PM Atal Behari Vajpayee waves from the maiden Delhi-Lahore bus service on his arrival at Lahore. (Photo: PTI)

The man who saw tomorrow: How Lahore bus was born

Nobody but a handful of Pakistani generals, who had boycotted the welcome ceremony as he got off the bus, did.

17 Aug 2018 1:35 AM

Sharif's daughter Maryam and son-in-law Safdar were also present at the event. (Photo: File)

Sharif cuts cake, celebrates Pak's Independence Day in jail

Pakistan on Tuesday celebrated its 72nd Independence Day. The PML-N leaders also prayed for the prosperity of the nation.

15 Aug 2018 1:08 PM

Now, an accountability court in Lahore on Tuesday declared PML-N President’s son-in-law, Imran Ali Yousaf, a proclaimed absconder on the request of National Accountability Bureau (NAB). (Photo: AFP)

Sharif’s son-in-law declared ‘proclaimed offender’ in corruption case

Imran Ali Yousaf is accused of receiving graft in excess of Rs 12 million from Ikram Naveed, former CEO of Punjab Power Development Company.

08 Aug 2018 3:21 PM

Kulsoom is undergoing treatment for cancer at the Harley Street Clinic in London. (Photo: File)

Nawaz Sharif’s wife Kulsoom Nawaz regains consciousness, still on ventilator

Sharif's Hussain informed that his mother was able to recognise family members and could now communicate with them through gestures.

06 Aug 2018 3:47 PM

Imran may sneak into office on a wafer-thin majority but his numbers will expand dramatically once he is installed as PM as the lure of power is irresistible for many of our politicians. (Photo: AP)

The culmination of 22-year-old struggle will make Pak ‘naya’

The apparent consensus that had ousted Nawaz Sharif from power had not been achieved to let his party back in so soon.

05 Aug 2018 12:10 AM

Khan's party, which won 116 of the 272 elected seats in the National Assembly, is believed to have enough would-be coalition partners among smaller parties and independents to win a majority vote to form a government. (Photo: File)

Pakistani opposition to challenge Imran Khan with own PM candidate in parliament

Opposition alleges that Pakistan polls were rigged, vowed to vote together with several smaller parties against Khan's election.

03 Aug 2018 10:46 AM

Improvement of relations with Afghanistan and India seem to be at the top on Imran Khan foreign policy agenda.

Imran might find it tough to deliver on his promises

Imran Khan’s victory speech has raised hopes for the return of some rationality to his politics.

03 Aug 2018 5:11 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Pakistani cricketing legend-turned politician Imran Khan (Photo: Twitter)

Imran’s possible invite to pose dilemma for Modi

It may be recalled that India had last week also hoped the new Pakistani Government would work towards building a “secure South Asia.”.

02 Aug 2018 12:20 AM

Pakistani politician Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, speaks to media after casting his vote at a polling station for parliamentary elections in Islamabad. (Photo: AP)

Guard against Imran’s political reverse swings

The road to spirituality and prime ministership was coincidentally also marked by his third marriage to the scholarly-austere-mystic Bushra Maneka.

31 Jul 2018 12:10 AM

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo lives with diabetes and has also undergone bypass surgery in 2016. (Photo: File/AP)

Nawaz Sharif to be hospitalised due to serious cardiac issues

Pak's caretaker govt today decided to shift former PM to Pak Institute of Medical Sciences in Islamabad after irregular ECG, blood reports.

29 Jul 2018 6:13 PM

Kaptaan a sitting duck, can he read military’s doosra?

The headstrong fast bowler either doesn’t know or is unwilling to acknowledge that when it comes to Delhi and Kabul, he may have to sit it out.

29 Jul 2018 12:12 AM

The provincial results have been also announced and the PML-N has become the single largest party with 129 seats in Punjab, the PPP with 76 in Sindh, the PTI with 66 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Balochistan Awami Party with 15 in Balochistan. (Photo: AFP)

Imran's Tehreek-e-Insaf emerges as largest party with 116 seats: official results

The PTI is on the top with 16,857,035 votes, followed by the PML-N with 12,894,225 and the PPP with 6,894,296 votes.

28 Jul 2018 4:54 PM

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