Tag: Nawaz Sharif

Islamabad: In a massive setback to Nawaz Sharif, the Pakistan Supreme Court on Friday dismissed the review petitions filed by the deposed Prime Minister and his children against the July 28 Panama Papers judgment. A five-judge SC bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa had taken up the petitions seeking review of the court’s ruling […]

New Delhi: He refused to testify against the now-ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999 after General Musharraf staged a coup, landing himself in a military jail. Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has remained loyal to his political master ever since. Now, after nearly two decades, his master has chosen him to step into his shoes, though […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday left for Kazakhstan to attend the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, with a chance meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi not ruled out, a media report said. Pakistan and India are to become full members of the SCO at the 7th SCO summit being held […]

Islamabad:Tariq Fatemi, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s former Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs who was sacked following an inquiry into a story published in the Dawn daily, has refuted allegations of involvement in leaking details of a crucial meeting on national security issues last October. In a farewell letter, Fatemi said: “I reject recent allegations, insinuations […]

Islamabad: Opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party has moved a resolution in the Punjab assembly airing its concern over the meeting between Indian businessman Sajjan Jindal and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Jindal, who is considered close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and now on a visit to Pakistan, met Sharif at the hill resort town of Murree […]

Lahore: Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif will return to Pakistan tomorrow to face corruption and money laundering cases against him in the accountability court. Sharif had gone to London to see his ailing wife who underwent three throat cancer surgeries. Sharif, 67, was disqualified by the Supreme Court on July 28 in the Panama Papers case. […]

Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s younger brother and Punjab chief minister was today questioned by a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) probing the high-profile Panamagate graft case against his family. Shehbaz Sharif, 65, is the fourth member of the Sharif family to appear before the the JIT. He was accompanied by his son, Hamza Shehbaz, […]

Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan today called off his over four-month protest in the capital against alleged rigging in last year's polls saying he wanted to help the government focus on the fight against terror a day after the Peshawar attack that killed 148 people

Sharing Pakistan's pain in the wake of the "dastardly" terror attack in a Peshawar school, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday night spoke to his Pakistan counterpart Nawaz Sharif on phone offering "deepest condolences and all assistance" in the hour of grief

Peshawar: About 142 people, nearly all of them school children, were massacred on Tuesday when heavily armed Taliban suicide bombers stormed a Pakistan army-run school here, firing indiscriminately, leaving another 245 injured. Dressed in para-military Frontier Corps uniforms, the six Arabic-speaking terrorists entered the Army Public School on Warsak Road around 10 AM (local time) […]

Emphasising on building a "peaceful neighbourhood", Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday said his country is committed to engaging India for peaceful resolution of all outstanding issues, including Kashmir, through sustained dialogue

Islamabad: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday sought an extension of the six-week bail granted to him by the Supreme Court on medical grounds. In the plea Sharif said a review petition was filed in the apex court over its March 26 decision of granting the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) leader bail for […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that the biggest problem for India in its relations with Pakistan is to find “who is running the country” and should be engaged for talks. In an interview to India TV’s Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma in front of nearly 2,500 people at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium […]

Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court on Thursday turned down former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s bail plea on medical grounds in a corruption case. A two-member bench pronounced the verdict after hearing the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader’s counsel and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) prosecutor, Dawn newspaper reported. Sharif was sentenced in December 2018 to […]

Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has granted bail on medical grounds to ailing former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on medical grounds in the Al Azizia corruption case till October 29. The IHC’s move on Saturday came a day after the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday granted bail to Sharif also on medical […]