Tag: JIT
Is a PTI-PPP deal on cards?
News Analysis | A prominent leader of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Mr. Saeed Ghani reminded the federal government that the provincial government has the authority...
Al-Azizia corruption reference: Nawaz trying to save a sinking ship?
News Analysis| Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared before the accountability court on Monday for the hearing of the Al Azizia Steel Mills reference and...
Under trial to exert pressure on Nawaz, alleges Maryam
News Analysis | Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz, on Tuesday, said she and her father have been dragged into fake corruption cases...
Nawaz Sharif denies ownership of London properties
News Analysis | The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has outrightly denied ownership of the London properties and told the court that “he had not...
Former FBI director’s book parallel with Pakistani Politics
Ikram Sehgal | James Brien Comey Jr served as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for four years till fired by President Donald...
“Corruption case against me and my family is a fraud”, says...
News Analysis | The head of Joint Investigation Team (JIT) Wajid Zia appeared before the accountability court yet again. He was supposed to be cross...
Documents submitted by Ms. Maryam were ‘forged’: Wajid Zia
News Analysis | The head of Panamagate Joint Investigation Team (JIT) appeared for the fifth time before an accountability court as a prosecution witness; in a...
Supreme Court bans Shahid Masood for three months
News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday banned senior anchorperson Dr. Shahid Masood from appearing on his television show for three months...
JIT head Wajid Zia records his testimony in the accountability court
News Analysis | The head of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), formed by the Supreme Court (SC) to probe into the Panama Papers case, Wajid...
Surprising twist in NAB reference against Nawaz
News Analysis | In a surprising twist, the accountability court remarked that the investigation report compiled by the Joint Investigation Team is not admissible as...
Fraud of Calibri Font: Disinformation and Cover Up by Pakistani Media?
Ikram Sehgal | This adverse media focus propagating perceptions quite contrary to reality about the “Calibri Font” is meant to discredit the allegations of alleged...
PHC suspends sentences of 25 convicts in Mashal’s case and orders...
News Analysis | The Peshawar High Court’s (PHC) Abbottabad bench has suspended the sentences of 25 convicts in Mashal Khan’s lynching case on Tuesday while...
PML-N cannot remain in the name of a disqualified person: PAT...
News Analysis | An application submitted by the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) and Advocate Makhdoom Muhammad Niaz Inqilabi to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has...
#JusticeForZainab
Saad Rasool | There are no words to express the grief, the shock, and the anger that people of Pakistan feels at the death of...
Momentum of Sharif family accountability increases; Hudaibiya scandal resurrected
News Analysis | Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar has ordered the formation of a Supreme Court (SC) bench, on Friday, to hear a...
Hybrid warfare against corruption
Ikram Sehgal | Anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) in line with Pakistan's action plan agreed with Financial Action Task Force (FATF),...
Has Imran Khan kicked-off his campaign against Asif Ali Zardari?
News Analysis | Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan has once again lashed out at the top leadership of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP),...
How will Sharif save his political career after NAB indictment?
News Analysis | Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was indicted by an accountability court on Friday in relation to a graft reference pertaining to the...
The saga of Nawaz’s ‘comings and goings’ continue
News Analysis | The continuous circus & soup opera of Pakistani politics does not seem to take a rest. Unwanted political drama and the bemusing...
Sharif on dangerous course of defiance
Aasim Kaker | Nawaz Sharif has been dismissed for the third consecutive time as Prime Minister of Pakistan, making history. Sharif’s political party ‘Pakistan Muslim...
Nawaz Sharif’s “Interesting questions” & their equally “Interesting answers”!
After his disqualification, Nawaz Sharif has, on multiple occasions, dismissed the Supreme Court verdict which ordered his removal. Nawaz has raised several questions casting...
Captain Safdar at it again…
Captain (retd) Mohammad Safdar unleashed a tirade against the two army officers who were part of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) constituted by the...
Mission GT road
News Desk | Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has already begun his journey from Islamabad to Lahore after being ousted by 5 member bench of...
Morality and misplaced loyalty
Ikram Sehgal | Misplaced loyalty for corrupt individuals is not the only betrayal of the community but complicity in their crimes, it lies at the...
One Jalsa. Multiple media narratives
News Analysis | Various media organizations of Pakistan have managed to portray certain events in a certain perspective. Imran Khan's "Thanksgiving" Jalsa was not spared...
A moral judgment?
Saad Rasool | The honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan, on Friday, disqualified Mian Nawaz Sharif, from being member of the National Assembly, under Article 62(1)(f)...
Countering Sharif’s apologists
Farah Adeed | The Supreme Court of Pakistan has finally disqualified Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, the third time elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. Nawaz Sharif...
Aftermath of the Panama verdict
Asif Haroon Raja | Panama case which emerged in April 2016 was fully exploited by Imran Khan (IK) led PTI. Once IK refused to accept...
Stop the Fear Mongering – Nawaz Sharif’s Disqualification Is Great...
Andrew Korybko | The voices alleging that the Prime Minister’s disqualification would lead to pandemonium in Pakistan were wrong – to the contrary, his removal has...
No judicialization but only democratization of democracy
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | All eyes will be on the news coming out from the building in the feature image of the article. Yes,...
Tomorrow will be the D-Day in Operation Panama
News Analysis | The 5-member bench of the Supreme Court will announce the verdict of the Panama Case tomorrow after the three-member implementation bench reserved...
The Nawaz Strategy: step by step acquittal.
Legal experts argue that the current strategy being pursued by the PM’s legal and political team is a strategy of "Step by Step Acquittal"....
The lion’s kingdom: What happened to the cricket that challenged him?
M. Usama Khawar | Once there was a lion called Nashreef, who lived in a jungle. Nashreef superseded other lions to become the King after...
Disqualification without trial?
Saad Rasool | The three-member implementation bench of the honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan has reserved its judgment in perhaps the most publicized case in...
Perhaps Khan was not a cricketer? Geo’s continuing love affair with...
Syed Ali Zia Jaffery | Just as the Panama case reaches its culmination point, the future of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif hangs in the balance....
Accountability or regime change?
Raza Rumi| Another déjà vu moment is knocking at our doors. The Supreme Court has reserved its verdict on the Panama Leaks case implicating the...
