By Qamar Bashir On June 27, 2024, two significant developments occurred in Pakistan’s political landscape. First, the Prime Minister extended an olive branch to the PTI, offering to engage in dialogue to ease the situation for the incarcerated PTI founder, who the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly […]
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By Qamar Bashir In 2014, I was posted in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as Director of Internal Publicity when Imran Khan’s dharnas were in full swing. The entire ministries were cordoned off by PTI and PAT activists, who had established checkpoints and were controlling access points to all […]
By Qamar Bashir In a stunning and perhaps desperate move, China has issued judicial guidelines on imposing criminal punishment on diehard "Taiwan independence" separatists for organizing, plotting, or carrying out schemes of "de jure independence," or seeking independence from China in collusion with any foreign government, overseas institution, organization, or […]
By Qamar Bashir As usual, the people of Pakistan experienced history in the making while witnessing the live proceedings of the Supreme Court of Pakistan today (24.06.2024), with the full bench of the Supreme Court versus one knight, Salman Akram Raja, representing an Independent Candidate during the hearing of an […]
ARAFAT -KSA -UNS/AFP : More than 1.5 million Muslims braved extreme heat to reach Mount Arafat on Saturday for the high point of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, praying for hours, especially for Palestinians in war-ravaged Gaza. Clad in white, worshippers began arriving at dawn for the most gruelling day of […]
BEIJING -APP/UNS: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed their consensus on the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor’s (CPEC) high-quality development and the timely completion of major ongoing projects in a productive meeting on Friday. The two leaders also affirmed their consensus on CPEC’s upgradation and advancing the mega […]
NEW YORK-UNS: The United Nations General Assembly in its Thursday session elected five new non-permanent members of the Security Council, including Pakistan. The newly elected members will serve for a two-year term from Jan 1, 2025, to Dec 31, 2026. They will replace Japan, Ecuador, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland, whose […]
ISLAMABAD -UNS: In another major relief, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday acquitted PTI founder Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cipher case. IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb announced the short verdict after accepting the appeals of the former […]
Ashraf Khan Ahead of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to China from June 4, hopes are high in Islamabad that the flagging multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) will be revived. This is after a successful visit in mid-May by Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar to Beijing, at which pledges were […]
By Qamar Bashir After his retirement as President and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Dr. Arif Alvi, following a brief period of hibernation, has proposed a 7-point plan as a starting point for all stakeholders currently at an impasse, unsure of their next moves. However, at this point, the […]
