Tag: Panama Case
SC dismisses petition seeking Sheikh Rashid’s disqualification
News Analysis | The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Wednesday announced its verdict in favor of Awami Muslim League leader Sheikh Ahmed Rashid in the misdeclaration of...
Rise of Judiciary in Pakistan: No more Lions under the throne
Asim Imdad Ali | ‘Let judges also remember, that Solomon’s throne was supported by lions on both sides: let them be lions, but yet lions...
NSC meeting concluded without any strong statements
News Analysis | The National Security Council (NSC) meeting held today on the suggestion of the Pakistan Armed Forces concluded by declaring Nawaz Sharif’s statement...
Shehbaz and Imran troll each other in Peshawar
News Analysis | Chief Minister Punjab Shehbaz Sharif took a sarcastic jibe at the ruling regime of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf – on Wednesday,...
PTI’s counsel apologizes for remarks on CJP Nisar’s photo with air...
News Desk | Pakistan’s top lawyer and PTI’s counsel in the famous Panama Case, Advocate Naeem Bukhari apologized to the chief justice for his remarks...
Why is Nawaz trying to exploit Justice Isa’s remarks?
News Analysis | Ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has termed the Justice Isa’s remarks on the Panama case, ‘not an ordinary development’. Talking to the media...
Imran Khan’s controversial purification plant may not work on Amir Liaquat
News Analysis | The inclusion of Dr. Amir Liaqat in Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has led to an uproar against the PTI’s decision across the country. PTI...
Civil-military relations in historical perspective
Asif Haroon Raja | In his ten year rule, Field Marshal Ayub Khan achieved phenomenal all round results mainly because he had kept the politicians...
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...
What’s behind the Sharifs’ trip to Saudi?
News Desk | Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif left for Saudi Arabia on Tuesday in the midst of corruption allegations and political turmoil. He is...
Nawaz Sharif represents the predatorification of politics
Mudassir Saeed Laghari| It’s never too late to learn. And that includes Nawaz Sharif. And as one proverb goes ‘no matter how far wrong you...
Khatam-e-Nabuwat crisis continues for PML-N
News Analysis | While showing their loyalty to Tehreek-e-Labbaik, many PML-N parliamentarians of national and provincial assemblies from Vehari, Sargodha, Jhang and Khushab have submitted...
NAB preparing to declare Dar “Proclaimed Offender”
News Analysis | The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has begun the process of declaring former finance minister Ishaq Dar a proclaimed offender for continually failing...
Accountability court adjourns reference hearing till 4th December!
News Analysis | On Tuesday, an accountability court adjourned the hearing of the graft references against former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his daughter, Maryam Nawaz...
PML-N: out or not-out?
News Analysis | Pakistan has seen a series of disruptive demonstrations and some incidents of mob violence in the last three days in almost every...
Sharif Corruption knows no bounds
Ikram Sehgal | The Nawaz Sharif episode shows that pervasive corruption has not only acquired respectability in a perverse manner in Pakistan but left to...
Nawaz’s anti-judiciary rhetoric and Imran’s defiant rebuttal
News Analysis | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran khan criticised disqualified ex-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif over his comments in a public gathering held in Abbottabad yesterday....
Is Nawaz Sharif really an Ideology?
News Analysis | The president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, who has been recently disqualified from public office by the Supreme Court...
Lawyers pledge full support to Nawaz Sharif
News Analysis | Senior members of the legal fraternity met former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif and assured him their wholehearted support in his efforts to...
The ‘NABbed’ family: Court gives exemptions to Nawaz Sharif & daughter...
News Analysis | On Wednesday, the accountability court adjourned the trial proceedings of the Sharif family till 22nd November after formally starting them against the...
Maryam takes a swipe at judiciary yet again
News Analysis | Maryam Nawaz tweeted on Thursday that if anyone was showing patience, it was Nawaz Sharif and that voices against injustice will be...
Nisar’s statements point to possible tensions within PML(N)
News Analysis | Prominent PML-N politician Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Tuesday that his party wanted the next general elections to be held on...
Why Nawaz wants to club three NAB references?
News Analysis | On 2nd November, Islamabad High Court (IHC) accepted the plea entered by the ousted ex-Prime Minister related with the accountability court’s decision to...
Sharif’s playbook to escape justice; 2017 edition.
PML-N government ministers and their supporters in the media are continuously trying to give the impression that the ruckus and rowdiness which lead to...
ECP issues non-bailable arrest warrants of Imran Khan
News Analysis | The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has issued non-bailable arrest warrants of Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan for his continued absence from...
Imran blasts Sharifs and company for appeasing the Indo-US lobby
News Analysis | Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, flayed the foreign minister, Khawaja Asif for his remarks regarding Nawaz Sharif's ouster. Khan took to...
Why has Nawaz hired a US lobbyist for himself?
News Analysis | The beleaguered and deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently hired services of one of the world’s most expensive U.S firm “Vin Roberti...
NAB claims will chase the Sharifs in London as they attempt...
News Analysis | The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has given the Sharif family seven more days to appear before the accountability courts in relation to...
A sorry tale of lawyers vandalism and ‘judicial surrender’
Saad Rasool | Just as our national gaze is focused on NAB references against the Sharif family, the review petition in Panama case, and Benazir...
Spat between Nisar and Rashid spells trouble for PML-N
News Analysis | Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Pervaiz Rashid's criticism of former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar on Friday has caused quite a stir inside...
NAB: National or Nawaz’s Accountability Bureau?
News Analysis | Ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his sons, Hassan and Hussain, failed to appear before NAB officials in Lahore on Friday. The...
THAT Pakistan: Power, Venality & Prostitution
Saeed Afridi | THAT Pakistan Since its very birth, in Pakistan’s political fraternity malleability, power politics and venality have ruled the roost. Whether the one yielding...
Khan’s Teflon factor: PML-N feeling the heat!
Muhammad Talha | After the historic Panama Case judgment, in which the former ‘Sher e Azam’ lost his tail along with his crown (even though...
Rana Sanaullah still hopeful about Nawaz’s chances in 2018
Rana Sanaullah, law minister influential member of the Punjab cabinet, opposed the elevation of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to the National Assembly, believing there...
Panamagate verdict: what just happened?
A Muslim majority nation has, for the first time in history, disqualified a chief executive from his post through due process of law. The...
The real owner of Avenfield Apartments: Hussain Nawaz or Maryam Safdar?
Panama Papers were released on 20th of April 2016 by International Consortium of Investigative Journalist (ICIJ). Now, the Panama Case has reached its culmination...
