Nawaz Sharif

Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) announced it will join with the Sunni Ittehad Council party (SIC) in a bid to form a government. 

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), the political party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, held massive protests over the weekend to denounce “rigging in the general election” held last week.

Early results in Pakistan’s elections show former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) party taking the lead.

Two bombings targeting a political party headquarters and a local government office killed at least 28 people in Balochistan, Pakistan, on Wednesday – the day before a massive nationwide election preceded by outsized political violence and what some have branded state persecution of opposition parties.

Pakistani police once again tried to arrest former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday, and as with the attempt last week, his supporters formed a protective ring around his house and drove the police back.

Chinese state media outlets insisted on Sunday that the ouster of radical Islamist Prime Minister Imran Khan in neighboring Pakistan – a close friend and ally of the Communist Party – would have no effect on bilateral ties.

The Parliament of Pakistan speedily elected Shehbaz Sharif, younger brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, to replace the ousted Imran Khan on Monday.

The Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), a coalition of 11 establishment parties in the country, organized a rally attracting over 10,000 people on Sunday, openly defying Prime Minister Imran Khan’s request that, in response to a surge of Chinese coronavirus cases, parties cancel mass events.

A court in Pakistan sentenced former President Pervez Musharraf to death for imprisoning top judges in 2007 as part of a “state of emergency” meant to keep him in power.

Thousands of demonstrators poured into Islamabad from across the country on Friday, including massive marches organized in the cities of Lahore and Karachi earlier this week. The protesters are largely hardline Islamists who want Prime Minister Imran Khan and his government to resign, ostensibly because they believe his 2018 election was illegitimate.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed a crowd of some 30,000 Pakistani-Americans in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, promising that under his administration a “new Pakistan” is “being created in front of your eyes.”

A Pakistani court on Monday sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to seven years in prison and ordered him to pay $25 million in fines for corruption.

The former cricketer turned politician Imran Khan declared victory in Pakistan’s elections on Thursday, hailing what he describes as the “fairest” vote in the country’s history despite opposition claims of vote-rigging and corruption.

Pakistan prepares to open polls for this year’s regional and legislative elections Wednesday, ending a campaign season fraught with incendiary language, terrorist attacks, and flooded with hundreds of candidates openly embracing Islamist groups.

A Pakistani court on Friday sentenced ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in absentia to a decade behind bars for corruption.

Contents: Pakistan’s anti-American ‘hope and change’ candidate Imran Khan runs again; Imran Khan threatens an anti-American and pro-Chinese agenda

Contents: China alarmed by consequences of its CPEC investment in Pakistan — terrorism and corruption; China halts CPEC funds over concerns about corruption in Pakistan; Pakistan alarmed about a Chinese ‘debt trap’

Contents: Widespread riots in Pakistan triggered by phony blasphemy charges; Pakistan releases Hafiz Saeed, mastermind of the horrific 2008 Mumbai massacre

Contents: Pakistan celebrates its 70th birthday, wondering what Pakistan is; Generational history of the 1947 Partition War that created Pakistan and India

Pakistan’s parliament is set to elect a new prime minister on Tuesday, replacing fallen PM Nawaz Sharif after he was ruled ineligible for public office by the country’s highest court. Opposition leaders complain the parliamentary “election” is a sham in which the ruling party will appoint a placeholder until they can install Sharif’s brother Shahbaz as the new prime minister.

Pakistan has embarked on a major diplomatic campaign to establish early relations with the incoming administration of Republican President-elect Donald Trump as some GOP lawmakers are pushing bills to cut foreign aid to the South Asian country and designate it a state-sponsor of terrorism.

Contents: Relations between India and Pakistan continue to deteriorate; India boycotts regional SAARC meeting in order to isolate Pakistan; Terrorists attack another Indian army base in Kashmir; India and Pakistan threaten war over Indus River water rights

Contents: Pakistan-India tensions again surge as Pakistan demands independence for Kashmir; Pakistan ejects Indian journalist from New York press conference

Contents: Fault lines: Saudi Arabia-China-Pakistan and India-U.S. continue to harden; Saudi Arabia and China sign economic and military agreements; Saudi Arabia and Pakistan discuss economic and military ties; U.S. and India sign a landmark defense agreement

Contents: India, Pakistan celebrate independence day with vitriolic accusations about Kashmir; Militants hoist Pakistani flags in Kashmir on Sunday

Contents: Tensions rising between Pakistan and India over Kashmir issue; Mastermind of 2008 Mumbai attack leads Pakistan protests against India

Contents: Pakistan promises to ‘avenge every drop of blood’ spilled by terrorists; Pakistan’s army launches a military crackdown in Southern Punjab province; Lahore Easter attack gives army even greater control of Pakistan

Contents: Iran and Pakistan agree to open border crossings and improve trade; Iran and Pakistan attempt to erase 40 years of sectarian hostility

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is expected to travel to Saudi Arabia and Iran Monday, in an effort to alleviate inflamed tensions between the two regional rivals after the Sunni kingdom’s execution of a prominent Shiite cleric sparked a divide across the Muslim world, pitting Sunnis against Shiites.

Contents: Pakistan tries to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran; Reader questions about Mideast country alignments

Contents: Terror attack on India’s Pathankot air base exposes weak defenses; India threatens retaliation for the Pathankot attack; Pathankot air base incident revives memories of the ’26/11′ Mumbai attack in 2008

Gunmen attacked a northern Indian air force base near the border with Pakistan and were exchanging fire with security forces on Saturday morning, police said.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that he rejected $5 billion offered by then-U.S. president Bill Clinton at the time to prevent Pakistan from conducting nuclear tests.

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, paid a visit to Pakistan on Thursday before heading to New Delhi, India, on a string of trips to nations Iran is attempting to strengthen ties with following the successful completion of the nuclear accords.

Gunmen on motorcycles boarded a bus and opened fire on commuters in Pakistan’s volatile southern city of Karachi on Wednesday, killing at least 43, police said, in the latest attack directed against religious minorities this year.

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