After scores of people were hospitalised when government supporters armed with sticks and clubs beat demonstrators, Sri Lankan authorities imposed a statewide curfew and deployed the army on Monday. “The violence against peaceful demonstrators today,” the US ambassador to Sri Lanka said, “and call on the government to undertake aRead More →

The federal government has de-notified Punjab Governor Omar Sarfraz Cheema. A notice has been issued by the Cabinet Division to de-notify the Governor of Punjab. In accordance with Article 101 and Proviso of Article 48 (1) of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, read with serial No. 2DRead More →

Imran Khan, the head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), announced at a rally in Mianwali on May 6 that he was going to start a legitimate independence struggle. The PTI chairman said in a special message to the people that he will speak at a massive public assembly in MianwaliRead More →

“You produced political instability by illegitimate use of authority,” Punjab Governor Omar Sarfraz Cheema wrote to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. “Hamza Shehbaz took unfair advantage of being your son.” According to a letter he wrote to Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif about the political upheaval and constitutional standstill in Punjab, noRead More →

RAWALPINDI: A court magistrate sentenced Sheikh Rashid Shafique, the nephew of Shiekh Rasheed Ahmed, to judicial remand on Wednesday, denying police’s request to prolong his physical remand. Despite the fact that he was presented in court under strong security measures, PTI members were able to go outside the court groundsRead More →

Russian forces fired rockets at an encircled steel works in Mariupol, Ukraine’s southern port city, and thick smoke blackened the sky at the plant, where officials said on Tuesday that 200 civilians were trapped despite evacuations. After failing to take the capital of Kyiv, Russia launched an offensive in theRead More →