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  • China indicators cope with cash-strapped Pakistan to arrange nuclear energy crops

    By Press Trust of India: China on Tuesday inked an settlement value a whopping USD 4.8 billion with cash-strapped Pakistan to arrange a 1,200-megawatt nuclear energy plant as an indication of accelerating strategic cooperation between the 2 all-weather allies.

    Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif witnessed the signing of the deal below which Beijing would construct a 1,200-megawatt Chashma-V nuclear plant at Chashma within the Mianwali district of Punjab.

    In his tackle, Prime Minister Sharif termed the nuclear energy plant settlement signing as a token of accelerating financial cooperation between Pakistan and China and vowed to finish the undertaking with none delay.

    “We will kick start it without any further delay,” he mentioned, as he lambasted the earlier authorities below Imran Khan for delaying the important thing energy undertaking.

    ALSO READ | Will proceed preventing, will not give up even when I’m jailed: Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan

    He mentioned below a tough financial state of affairs, Pakistan was getting an funding of USD 4.8 billion from China on this undertaking, which “sends the message that Pakistan is a place where Chinese companies and investors continue to show their trust and faith”.

    Sharif mentioned the Chinese firms gave particular concessions which might save billions of rupees on this undertaking.

    He expressed confidence that Pakistan would come out of the present financial difficulties with the assistance of China and different pleasant international locations.

    Sharif mentioned Pakistan was additionally engaged with the International Monetary Fund to finalise the ninth Review and met all circumstances required by the Washington-based international lender.

    “We are deeply obliged to President Xi Jinping, and the Chinese leadership for their generous help to Pakistan,” he mentioned, as he additionally lauded Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar for extending assist to his cash-strapped authorities.

    ALSO READ | Pakistan widens seek for human traffickers after a ship carrying a whole lot sank off Greece’s coast

    NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

    Pakistan’s Chashma energy crops are thought of a key within the manufacturing of low-cost nuclear energy. The put in capability of the prevailing 4 energy crops is 1,330 megawatts, in line with the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.

    Two different nuclear energy crops are additionally operational in Pakistan. Karachi Nuclear Power Plants (KANUPP 2 & 3 have a capability of two,290 megawatts).

    PAKISTAN’S ECONOMIC CRISIS

    Pakistan, which is below great monetary debt, shouldn’t be getting multilateral loans and even bilateral help with out the assist of the IMF.

    Only China has stood quick to assist Pakistan whereas Saudi Arabia and the UAE have additionally been selectively supportive.

    ALSO READ | ‘India ought to abandon becoming a member of US’ egocentric gameâ€æ’: China forward of PM Modi’s go to

    The IMF signed a deal in 2019 to offer USD 6 billion to Pakistan on fulfilment of sure circumstances. The plan was derailed a number of instances and the complete reimbursement remains to be pending attributable to insistence by the donor that Pakistan ought to full all formalities.

    Pakistan’s financial system has been in a free fall mode for the final a few years, bringing unbridled strain on the poor plenty within the type of unchecked inflation and making it nearly unattainable for an enormous variety of folks to make ends meet.

  • Defectors from ex-Pak PM Imran Khan’s celebration sort new outfit

    By Press Trust of India: A gaggle of former provincial lawmakers who quit ex-prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf celebration over the May 9 assaults on delicate military installations and authorities buildings, on Monday floated a model new outfit referred to as the “Democrats.”

    The former residence minister of the Punjab province Hashim Dogar who quit Khan’s PTI ultimate month, is foremost this outfit, which moreover consists of former education minister Dr Murad Raas.

    There was no readability over whether or not or not this outfit will align with various the bigger political occasions similar to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) or Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).

    Neither has there been any information on whether or not or not the “Democrats” plans to register with the Election Commission of Pakistan.

    “One thing is clear, that the Democrats will continue acting as an opposition to the ruling Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM),” Raas was quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.

    On May 9, violent protests erupted after paramilitary Rangers arrested 70-year-old Khan, the chairman of PTI, from the Islamabad High Court premises in reference to a corruption case.

    ALSO READ | Imran Khan extra more likely to be tried in military courtroom for violence: Pak minister Khawaja Asif

    Khan’s celebration workers vandalised a dozen military installations, along with the Lahore Corps Commander House, the Mianwali airbase and the ISI developing in Faisalabad in response to his arrest.

    The mob moreover stormed the Army headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi for the first time.

    Thousands of Khan’s supporters had been arrested following the violence that the extremely efficient Army described as a “dark day” throughout the historic previous of the nation.

    The crackdown launched after May 9 violent protests have thrown PTI proper right into a deep existential catastrophe with dozens of key celebration leaders quitting the celebration every day.

    Khan on Monday talked about Pakistanis dwell throughout the “dark ages” as a result of the authorities had been using Nazi Germany-era regulation of kin punishment in opposition to his supporters amid silence from the Supreme Court.

    Dogar and Raas are various the excellent legislators, along with PTI’s Secretary General Asad Umar, senior chief Fawad Chaudhry and former minister Shireen Mazari, to have parted strategies.

    So far, over 100 leaders and former lawmakers have quit PTI, with Pakistan’s law-enforcement corporations having arrested over 10,000 workers from assorted elements of the nation.

    ALSO READ | ‘It’s out throughout the open’: Former Pak PM Imran Khan accuses military, spy firm of making an attempt to destroy his celebration

    Last month, the National Assembly, the lower house of Pakistan’s Parliament, handed a call vowing to try May 9 rioters under the prevailing authorized tips along with the stringent Army Act and the Official Secrets Act.

    Khan, a former cricketer-turned-politician, was ousted from vitality in April ultimate 12 months after dropping a no-confidence vote in his administration, which he alleged was part of a US-led conspiracy specializing in him on account of his neutral abroad protection alternatives on Russia, China and Afghanistan.

  • Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf social gathering president Parvez Elahi re-arrested

    By Press Trust of India: The President of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf social gathering Parvez Elahi was on Friday arrested as soon as extra minutes after a judicial Justice of the Peace proper right here ordered his launch in an embezzlement case.

    Elahi, an in depth aide to former prime minister Khan, was a day earlier arrested outside his residence in Punjab province inside the Rs 70 million corruption case related to the embezzlement of enchancment funds allotted for the Gujrat district.

    The former chief minister of Punjab province was re-arrested by officers of the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Punjab in a corruption case registered in opposition to him in Gujranwala, Geo News reported.

    Judicial Magistrate Ghulam Murtaza Virk issued Elahi’s launch order whereas asserting the choice he had reserved on a plea looking for the PTI chief’s bodily remand.

    ALSO READ | Imran Khan larger threat to nation than Narendra Modi: Pakistan Defence Minister

    “Parvez Elahi should be released if he is not wanted in any other case,” the choice talked about. Murtaza had reserved the choice after listening to the earlier Punjab chief minister’s case, the place ACE Punjab requested the court docket docket for his 14-day bodily remand.

    Elahi’s counsel Advocate Rana Intizar educated the court docket docket that every one paperwork related to the duties had been accessible.

    “Anti-corruption watchdog is introducing its own law under which the judge hearing the cases will be of their choice,” the council talked about, together with that on January 17 a price value Rs 360 million was made when Naqvi was the chief minister.

    Earlier on Friday, the 77-year-old chief claimed innocence and talked about that he was a “supporter” of the Pakistan Army, urging social gathering supporters to stay strong.

    Speaking to reporters sooner than his look inside the court docket docket, Elahi talked about: “I am innocent and a supporter of the Pakistan Army.”

    While chatting with Geo News, Elahi with out naming anybody took a jibe on the previous social gathering leaders who launched their option to half strategies with PTI chief Imran Khan, saying that he obtained’t preserve any press conference.

    Elahi recalled that he did not make any political case in opposition to anyone and blamed Punjab chief minister Mohsin Naqvi for his current predicament. “Naqvi has done injustice to me.”

    CASES AGAINST PARVEZ ELAHI

    Two circumstances have been registered in Gujranwala in opposition to the earlier Punjab chief minister on the prices of receiving kickbacks in awarding contracts whereas one case has been lodged in Lahore in opposition to Elahi.

    Earlier, a selected select of the anti-corruption court docket docket proper right here issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Elahi, ordering authorities to provide him by June 2. Two arrest warrants have been issued for the PTI chief. The first one was issued on May 25 after the cancellation of bail whereas the second on May 26.

    In April, the ACE Gujranwala filed a case in opposition to the PTI president citing a report based totally on sources, by means of which the earlier Punjab chief minister was accused of taking a Rs 2 billion bribe for the contract of a enchancment scheme.

    In one different case, an FIR was registered in opposition to Elahi for taking a bribe of Rs 120 million from a worldwide organisation — a Turkish agency.

    The anti-corruption court docket docket select moreover declared Elahi’s medical certificates as bogus which claimed that he had been experiencing chest ache. The former Punjab chief minister’s arrest comes amidst the extremely efficient establishment’s efforts to interrupt Khan’s PTI.

    QUITTING OF PTI LEADERS

    Currently, over 100 PTI leaders and former lawmakers have cease Khan’s social gathering following May 9 assaults on military installations inside the nation. Khan, 70, who’s going by means of larger than 100 circumstances ranging from corruption to terrorism, talked about he sympathises with all people who was pressured to go away the social gathering.

    ALSO READ | ‘Game over’ for Imran Khan: Maryam Nawaz takes jibe at ex-PM over exodus of senior members from PTI

    Elahi, who was an in depth aide to military dictator General Pervez Musharraf, was appointed as a result of the president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) social gathering in March this yr after quitting his former social gathering – the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q).

    On May 9, violent protests erupted after the arrest of Khan, Chairman of PTI, by paramilitary Rangers in Islamabad. His social gathering workers vandalised over 20 military installations and authorities buildings, along with the Lahore Corps Commander House, Mianwali airbase and the ISI establishing in Faisalabad.

    The Army headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi was moreover attacked by the mob for the first time. Khan was later launched on bail.

    The violence elicited a strong response from the federal authorities and armed forces with vows of taking movement in opposition to the culprits, leading to an ongoing crackdown in opposition to those involved.

    Law enforcement companies have arrested over 10,000 workers of Khan’s Pakistan social gathering all through Pakistan, 4,000 of them from Punjab province.

    Khan, a cricketer-turned-politician, was ousted from vitality in April closing yr after shedding a no-confidence vote in his administration, which he alleged was part of a US-led conspiracy specializing in him resulting from his neutral worldwide protection decisions on Russia, China and Afghanistan.

  • Imran Khan lashes out at Pakistan govt for trashing rule of regulation and destroying monetary system

    By Press Trust of India: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday lashed out on the PML-N-led coalition authorities for trashing the rule of regulation and destroying the monetary system beneath the watch of the extremely efficient establishment.

    Khan took to social media to make an announcement that focussed on the true factors confronted by the nation than highlighting the dire affairs of his celebration which goes by way of the wrath of the state for attacking institutions.

    “Completely abandoning the rule of regulation, this fascist authorities is devoted to a one-point agenda of crushing Tehreek-e-Insaaf, leaving General Musharraf’s martial regulation far behind,” he tweeted.

    With full disregard for the rule of regulation, this fascist govt – far worse than General Musharraf’s martial regulation, has a one degree agenda which is to crush PTI.

    Meanwhile, Pak monetary system goes proper right into a free fall. Dollar is at Rs. 315 inside the open market, whereas for non CNIC holdersâ€æ
    — Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) May 29, 2023

    He went on in order so as to add that cash-strapped Pakistan’s monetary system is falling headlong into the abyss of destruction. Khan talked about that the buck is being provided at Rs 315 inside the open market, whereas it is obtainable for Rs 320 to Rs 325 for people who mustn’t have an identification card and there is a distinction of 30 rupees per buck between the official and open market expenses.

    ALSO READ | Pakistan’s ruling coalition turns down ex-PM Imran Khan’s talks provide

    “This dollarisation of economy means no local or foreign investment into the country, which will result in contraction of the GDP and worse, lead to hyperinflation,” he added.

    Turning to his favourite theme of stonewalling his opponents, Khan said the leaders of the coalition government have billions of dollars stashed abroad, and understandably they are not pushed.

    “The question is, how on earth is the Pakistani establishment allowing the nation to maneuver in path of a whole monetary meltdown?” he requested.

    The assertion comes because the federal authorities and Khan have traded barbs over the alleged ill-treatment of women supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf who had been nonetheless in jail after being arrested inside the wake of violent protests on May 9.

    Khan is beneath stress to take care of his celebration intact as dozens of leaders have abandoned it after the crackdown launched to arrest these involved in assaults on military installations. His assertion is outwardly an effort to tell his supporters that Khan was nonetheless associated and may take the nation out of problem.

    ALSO READ | ‘Game over’ for Imran Khan: Maryam Nawaz takes jibe at ex-PM over exodus of senior members from PTI

    Khan, a cricketer-turned-politician, was ousted from power in April closing yr after dropping a no-confidence vote in his administration, which he alleged was part of a US-led conspiracy specializing in him on account of his unbiased worldwide protection selections on Russia, China and Afghanistan.

  • Ex-Pak PM Imran Khan seeks help from US Congresswoman in new audio leak

    By India Today World Desk: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who had blamed the US after he was ousted from vitality in April remaining yr, sought the intervention of a US lawmaker amid a authorities crackdown on his celebration employees and leaders, Geo News reported.

    The report depends on a purported audio between Imran Khan and US lawmaker Maxine Moore Waters that leaked on social media.

    In the purported audio, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chief was heard asking the US lawmaker to raise her voice in opposition to “human rights violations” in Pakistan, the report said.

    The crackdown on PTI began days after protesters stormed the army headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi and also torched a corps commander’s house in Lahore over Imran Khan’s dramatic arrest on May 9 in a corruption case.

    READ | Cannot crush an ideology: Imran Khan on crackdown against party workers for May 9 riots

    Notably, Imran Khan’s arrest came a day after the army accused the ex-PM of levelling baseless allegations against a senior officer of the spy agency ISI. Khan had claimed that Faisal Naseer aka ‘Dirty Harry’ was behind the previous assassination attempts on him and he was also responsible for the murder of journalist Arshad Sharif.

    In the clip, Imran Khan was heard briefing Maxine Moore Waters about the situation in Pakistan and requesting her to release a statement in his favour.

    ALSO READ | Pak govt plans to designate PM Imran Khan’s party PTI a ‘terrorist group’

    “I received three bullets in one assassination attempt. My government was removed by ex-army chief [General Qamar Javed Bajwa] because the military establishment is very powerful here. He conspired with people who are in power currently and toppled my government,” Khan was heard telling Maxime inside the purported audio clip.

    “We merely need a assertion highlighting the [crackdown] and that will really help us. If any person akin to you Maxine speaks up it makes a great deal of waves,” he added.

  • ‘Face Army Act or…’: Imran Khan given decisions by ‘extremely efficient components’

    By Hamza Ameer: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been given a suggestion by “powerful elements” to face Army Act bills and go to jail or go to London in exile, sources instructed India Today. Khan, who faces a variety of circumstances along with some beneath the Army Act, has consulted collectively together with his shut get collectively leaders on the present he obtained, sources added.

    Imran Khan was given a deadline to easily settle for the present, sources said, nonetheless it is not clear when that deadline ends.

    Imran Khan, who was ousted from vitality in April remaining yr after shedding a no-confidence vote in his administration, cannot be arrested till May 31 as a result of the Islamabad High Court dominated in favour of the earlier Pakistan PM.

    READ | ‘London plan is out’: Imran Khan says Pak navy plans to jail him for 10 years

    The courtroom docket was listening to PTI’s plea searching for particulars of all the circumstances filed in opposition to Khan. The former PM’s get collectively said the PTI chief was booked in over 100 circumstances all through the nation.

    However, Imran Khan, who skipped a summons throughout the Al-Qadir Trust case on Thursday, is on the centre of 1 different controversy as police have gathered outdoor his Zaman Park residence in Lahore.

    The police surrounded Imran Khan’s residence after the Punjab authorities claimed that 30 to 40 “terrorists” have been hiding inside Zaman Park. The administration gave an ultimatum of 24 hours to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief useful them over or face stern movement.

    Speaking to Deutsche Welle in his first interview given that lapse of the Punjab authorities’s 24-hour deadline, Imran Khan said police have been nonetheless surrounding his residence.

    The police might launch a security operation any time to arrest the “terrorists” allegedly holed up in Khan’s residence.

    On May 9, violent protests erupted after Imran Khan was arrested in a corruption case. His get collectively employees vandalised a dozen navy installations, along with the Jinnah House (Lahore Corps Commander house), Mianwali airbase and the ISI establishing in Faisalabad. The Army headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi was moreover attacked by the mob for the first time.

    Police put the demise toll in violent clashes to 10 whereas Khan’s get collectively claims 40 of its employees misplaced their lives throughout the firing by security personnel.

  • Pakistan catastrophe: What’s the endgame?

    By Geeta Mohan: Pakistan has descended into chaos. From an affect battle between the federal authorities and Imran Khan to a tussle between the earlier Pakistan premier and the navy to experiences of infighting all through the Pakistani military and a pull and push between the judiciary and the civilian-military administration, there is a rumble throughout the Pakistan navy.

    Will the Pakistan navy prevail and Imran Khan be decrease to measurement? Or will the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) change the political course throughout the nation? Let’s dive in.

    Pakistan is confronted with its worst catastrophe ever, not on account of political upheaval is unknown to this military-controlled nation, nonetheless on account of it comes at a time of nice monetary challenges.

    On the afternoon of May 9, former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was arrested from the premises of the Islamabad High Court by Pakistan Rangers, a paramilitary drive.

    ALSO READ | Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif blames Imran Khan for mayhem by his supporters

    Later, a press launch was issued that he was arrested on a warrant issued by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), for irregular acquisition of property which had been deemed to fall beneath corrupt practices by a holder of public office, beneath Section 9 (a) of the NAB Ordinance, 1999, leading to an absence of 190 million kilos to the state exchequer.

    The accusation is of the sale of properties that are registered throughout the title of the Al Qadir Trust, of which every Imran and his partner, Bushra Bibi, are the one trustees. The enterprise tycoon involved had provided a property in Britain which, sarcastically, he had purchased from Nawaz Sharif’s son.

    The arrest was adopted by big violence all through Pakistan, with PTI employees and Imran Khan supporters taking to the streets and attacking navy belongings and properties.

    The Pakistani judiciary received right here to Imran Khan’s rescue not solely by granting him bail throughout the Al Qadir Trust case however as well as interim security from any further movement by the current dispensation.

    ALSO READ | Islamabad HC extends order till May 31 to forestall Imran Khan’s arrest in circumstances in opposition to him

    Javed Siddique, a senior political analyst, says, “All these incidents were taken very seriously by the establishment. And now, the civilian government and the military have both decided to try all those people, all those civilians, under the Pakistan Army Act. They will be tried in the military courts. This is something very incongruous because Pakistan is being run by the constitution, a constitutional government, parliament is there, courts are there. Now, the law-abiding citizens, the lawyers and the legal community wonder how a civilian could be tried under martial law or military courts, because this can be done only when there is no constitution and if the constitution has been suspended or abrogated. So this is very strange and being criticised by the civil rights organisation in Pakistan, and elsewhere, outside of Pakistan.”

    Reinstatement of military courts on the taking part in playing cards

    Interestingly, Pakistan presently does not have military courts. The courts have been abolished and shut down with a restriction to not implicate any civilian beneath the Army Act or the Official Secrets Act.

    Military courts have been established on January 7, 2015, after the Army Public School assault in Peshawar on 16 December 2014. They have been established as part of the 20-point National Action Plan (NAP). In the military courts, many TTP terrorists have been put to trial and sentenced to demise by way of secret military courtroom trials.

    ALSO READ | Tracking Pakistan’s political catastrophe from airspace

    Now, in view of the distrust prevailing throughout the authorities of the judiciary, accusing them of providing blanket cowl to Imran Khan, reinstatement of military courts is on the taking part in playing cards by way of the National Action Plan by bringing a bill in parliament to amend the construction and the Army Act and enhance its jurisdiction and allow it to try civilians on terrorism bills in military courts beneath Official Secrets Act.

    Senior political analyst Javed Siddique supplies, “The current government is not protecting the legal and civil rights of the people of Pakistan. Though it is a civilian government in name, practically it is surrendering all its powers to the establishment, to the military, which is very unfortunate.”

    What gave Imran Khan a political fillip after his eradicating was the reality that the Pakistani navy’s dwelling was not in order, nonetheless after the appointment of Asif Munir as Army Chief, who has a long-term ahead, prime Pakistani generals are literally rallying behind General Munir. Also, the assault on navy belongings was the ultimate straw for a lot of who’ve been supporting Imran Khan all through the establishment. Then what is the endgame?

    Option 1: Imran Khan shall be fixed by way of the military courts
    Option 2: Long arrest and disqualification
    Option 3: Splitting up the get collectively

    ALSO READ | Imran Khan requires unbiased inquiry into violence, assaults on military installations

    With Imran Khan digging in his heels, it is the third chance that seems to be turning into actuality. Many vital leaders of the PTI, resembling Aamer Kiani, Mahmood Moulvi, Sanjay Sagwani, and Karim Gabol have started parting strategies with the get collectively.

    Insider sources say {{that a}} backdoor provide has been made to Imran Khan by “powerful elements” — face Army Act and jail or go to London in exile. He is consulting shut get collectively leaders on these selections.

    The parting leaders protect that they cannot help assaults on military installations for political good factors.

    If PTI begins dissipating, then Imran Khan ought to take a reputation on whether or not or not persevering with this of us’s movement is an chance the least bit. The toppling of governments has been a typical attribute in Pakistan’s political historic previous. Each of the earlier 5 prime ministers has been indicted or imprisoned after leaving office.

    For an individual who rose to administration in 2018 with the countenance of the navy and was away from office in 2022 after he misplaced that backing, there is only one vitality that prevails – the Pakistan navy.

    ALSO READ | Hand over ’30 to 40 terrorists’ hiding in your house by Thursday noon: Govt’s ultimatum to Imran Khan

  • Maryam Nawaz requires resignation of Pakistan chief justice over Imran Khan’s launch

    By Press Trust of India: PML-N chief organiser Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Monday demanded the resignation of Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial and blamed him for the “anarchy” and “crisis” in Pakistan as she joined the ruling coalition’s sit-in exterior the Supreme Court to protest a couple of of the present rulings which they said provided blanket support to former prime minister Imran Khan.

    Addressing a gathering of protesters exterior the Supreme Court proper right here, Maryam, the daughter of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, accused the apex court docket docket of imposing a “judicial martial law” throughout the nation.

    She said that “free and fair elections are not possible until Umar Ata Bandial remains the country’s top judge” and that polls will be held at its scheduled time “after you (Bandial) step down”.

    Accompanied by Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) President Maulana Fazlur Rehman and other leaders of the multi-party alliance, the 49-year-old PML-N leader said: “All of you should be aware that the anarchy [â€æ] and crisis that has taken over the country today, the place of its genesis was not Zaman Park as much as Umar Ata Bandial’s post.”

    “Today, when the navy is standing with the democracy and Constitution of Pakistan â€æ the fifth martial regulation in Pakistan â€æ judicial martial regulation has been imposed from this developing,” she said, apparently referring to some of the rulings from the apex court docket docket.

    MARYAM SHARIF VS IMRAN KHAN

    Maryam accused Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan of doing what “terrorists or Pakistan’s enemies could not do”.

    “He and his wife stole the public’s money and then bought plots from this money,” Maryam Nawaz said, together with that Khan, 70, “trained” his “minions” at Zaman Park and set fireside to the Jinnah House.

    “Elected prime ministers are sent packing and some are hanged â€æ and [these decisions] are stamped here,” she said, lambasting the apex court over its failure in “delivering justice to the oppressed, bringing the extremely efficient beneath the regulation and strengthening democracy”.

    “But the facilitators [â€æ] sitting on this developing are murdering justice,” she said, referring to the top judge.

    Hundreds of protesters belonging to the PML-N, Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), earlier in the day entered the Red Zone despite Section 144 still in effect in the federal capital and set up a stage in front of the Supreme Court.

    ALSO READ | ‘London plan is out’: Imran Khan says Pak military plans to jail him for 10 years

    Rehman, also the chief of PDM — a ruling alliance of 13 political parties, had on Friday announced to stage the sit-in outside the Supreme Court against Chief Justice Bandial for facilitating Khan.

    DEMAND FOR PAK CHIEF JUSTICE’S RESIGNATION

    Addressing the participants, Rehman accused Chief Justice Bandial of violating the rules and regulation of the top court. “I’m tough â€æ chief justice sahib, on this one month you should have carried out misconduct of this court docket docket.”

    He added: “You and your companions sitting on these seats â€æ we acquired’t imply you may disrespect or abuse the nation or the Parliament.”

    In the same breath, he vowed to protect the apex court building with his life, but at the same time contended that he won’t let “even a single judge harm its sanctity”. He alleged that verdicts were being engineered and his party would allow this to happen.

    He also said that all institutions should fulfil their constitutional responsibilities by working within their boundaries and warned the judiciary against indulging in politics.

    Several other leaders from smaller political parties also addressed the gathering and accused the chief justice of giving undue favour to Khan.

    IMRAN KHAN’S RELEASE

    The allegations were levelled following the release of Khan by a three-member apx court bench headed by Chief Justice Bandial which angered the government and its allies and they announced to register their protest against the decision.

    It was believed that demonstrators would leave the venue after a token protest but the JUI-F, which is one of the largest components of PDM, converted the protest into a “sit-in”.

    “The administration committee has finalised preparations for the protest-sit-in exterior the Supreme Court [in] Islamabad. The administration committee has begun preparations for altering the protest proper right into a sit-in,” the JUI-F tweeted.

    The celebration moreover said it may organize tents and assemble washrooms on the venue.

    Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, who was earlier scheduled to affix the protest, has been recommended in direction of it by senior members of his celebration. PPP chief Nisar Khoro was, nonetheless, seen standing alongside PDM administration on the stage.

    ALSO READ | Imran Khan must have been hanged publicly: Pak’s Opposition chief

    Meanwhile, Khan said that on the one hand, PDM “goons” facilitated by security firms have been attempting to “take over” the Supreme Court and subverting the Constitution whereas alternatively, the federal authorities was clamping down on PTI workers with a minimal of seven,000 arrested and dozens of unarmed protestors killed.

    IMRAN KHAN CALLS FOR PROTESTS

    The cricketer-turned-politician, who has an unlimited following in Pakistan, urged all residents to be ready for peaceful protests, citing that it might be the highest of Pakistan’s dream as quickly because the Constitution and Supreme Court have been destroyed.

    So with none investigation into who was liable for arson on authorities developing or dozens of deaths of unarmed protesters by bullet wounds , spherical 7000 PTI workers , administration and our women have been jailed with plans to ban the largest and solely federal celebration in Pak .â€æ pic.twitter.com/7p8uiPaYhc
    — Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) May 15, 2023

    “So without any investigation into who was responsible for arson on a government building or dozens of deaths of unarmed protesters by bullet wounds, around 7000 PTI workers, leadership and our women have been jailed with plans to ban the largest and only federal party in Pak,” Khan tweeted.

    “Meanwhile, these goons are being facilitated by our security agencies to take over the SC and subvert the constitution. All citizens be ready for peaceful protests as once the constitution and Supreme Court are destroyed, it is the end of the Pak dream.” he wrote.

    The PDM-led protest is a sign of escalating tensions between the very best judiciary and the federal authorities of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who modified Khan after his ouster in a no-confidence vote in Parliament in April 2022.

    Khan has said the JUI-F “drama” that is being carried out exterior the apex court docket docket is only for one goal — to overawe the Chief Justice so that he does not give a verdict in keeping with the Constitution.

  • Imran Khan extra prone to appear sooner than Lahore High Court within the current day

    By Press Trust of India: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan is extra prone to appear sooner than the Lahore High Court within the current day throughout the cases registered in direction of him for torching the house of the Corps Commander proper right here and completely different incidents of violence erupted after his arrest ultimate week.

    Khan returned to his Lahore residence on Saturday after having locked himself throughout the Islamabad High Court (IHC) premises for hours for fear of re-arrest no matter being granted bail on Friday. The IHC had granted 70-year-old Khan bail, barring the authorities from arresting him in the entire cases registered previous May 9 and requested him to technique the Lahore High Court for added discount on May 15.

    In the Al Qadir Trust case, by which National Accountability Bureau arrested the earlier cricketer-turned politician on May 9, the IHC granted him pre-arrest bail for two weeks.

    The Supreme Court had declared Khan’s arrest from the IHC premises illegal and referred the matter to the IHC.

    “The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman is likely to appear before the LHC to seek pre-arrest bail in six cases registered against him in Lahore and other parts of Punjab province after May 9,” a senior chief from Khan’s social gathering knowledgeable PTI on Sunday.

    He said Khan held a gathering of the social gathering leaders (who nonetheless managed to evade arrest) at his Zaman Park residence proper right here and talked about the social gathering’s future method. His look sooner than the LHC was moreover talked about.

    ALSO READ | Maulana Haideri of JUI-F, completely different Opposition occasions to hold sit-in exterior Pak SC

    He said the federal authorities and the establishment are decided to arrest Khan in any frivolous case.

    The Punjab police on May 10 booked Khan and many of his social gathering staff for attacking and setting on fire the Corps Commander House in Lahore other than registering 5 completely different FIRs in direction of him for inciting his supporters to assault and hurt the state buildings and navy installations.

    Khan and his deputy Shah Mahmood Qureshi and others have been framed beneath murder, terrorism and 20 completely different heinous offences for attacking the senior navy commander dwelling generally called ‘Jinnah House’ in Lahore Cantonment on ultimate Tuesday.

    The arrest of Khan on Tuesday by the Pakistan Rangers on the IHC premises triggered unrest in Pakistan that continued till Friday and led to quite a few deaths and dozens of navy and state installations being destroyed by the protesters.

    For the first time in Pakistan’s historic previous, the protesters stormed the navy headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi and likewise torched the corps commander’s dwelling in Lahore.

    Police put the lack of life toll in violent clashes to 10 whereas Khan’s social gathering claims 40 of its staff misplaced their lives throughout the firing by security personnel.

    Punjab Inspector General Police Dr Usman Anwar knowledgeable a press conference on Sunday that over 3,500 people have been arrested in Punjab province for his or her involvement in violence erupted after Khan’s arrest. He said most of them will most likely be tried in anti-terrorism courts.

    Khan was ousted from power in April ultimate 12 months after dropping a no-confidence vote in his administration, which he alleged was part of a US-led conspiracy specializing in him resulting from his neutral worldwide protection alternatives on Russia, China and Afghanistan.

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  • Imran Khan will get security from arrest in all circumstances till May 15

    By India Today World Desk: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was arrested in a dramatic model on May 9, was granted a two-week bail by the Islamabad High Court on Friday in a corruption case. A short while later, the courtroom said he could not be arrested within the interim in positive pending circumstances in opposition to him.

    The quite a few rulings obtained right here because the federal authorities and legions of Imran Khan’s supporters had been on edge after days of violent confrontations sparked by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief’s arrest.

    The authorities has vowed it might uncover a method to take Imran Khan once more into custody, a switch which will likely set off a resurgence of violence in Pakistan.

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    Here’s what panned out throughout the Islamabad High Court proper this second:

    After a fast listening to, a specific bench of the Islamabad High Court granted defending bail to Imran Khan for two weeks throughout the Al-Qadir Trust case.

    The courtroom moreover ordered that the earlier Pakistan prime minister should not be arrested till May 17 in any case registered in Islamabad after May 9. It moreover ordered the authorities to provide ‘foolproof security’ to Imran Khan.

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    However, Imran Khan remained throughout the courtroom after the selection as his attorneys petitioned the judges for associated security in various completely different circumstances, making an attempt to close off a approved avenue for the federal authorities to arrest him as soon as extra.

    The Islamabad High Court then ordered that Imran Khan cannot be arrested in any case registered in opposition to him all through Pakistan till Monday, May 15.

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    Imran Khan was eradicated as prime minister last yr by a no-confidence vote in Parliament and now leads the opposition. He faces better than 100 approved circumstances, most involving allegations that he incited violence and threatened police and authorities officers.

    He moreover faces a minimal of three graft circumstances, along with accusations from the National Accountability Bureau that he accepted tons of of hundreds of {{dollars}} worth of property in alternate for providing benefits to an precise property tycoon. A model new terrorism price was filed in opposition to him for allegedly inciting his followers to violence after his arrest.

    Imran Khan will go away for his residence in Bani Gala, Islamabad after receiving the written order from the courtroom.

    (With inputs from AFP, AP, Dawn)

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