Islamabad, July 26 (IANS) The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders have announced that they will approach the court to seek permission for holding a protest on August 5 as the Lahore Deputy Commissioner Syed Musa Raza has not yet responded to their request for holding a peaceful gathering, local media reported on Sunday. While addressing a press conference at the Lahore Press Club, PTI Lahore President Mian Akram Usman said the party had applied to the Lahore Deputy Commissioner for permission…
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London, July 25 (IANS) The United Kingdom has emerged as one of the main centres of Pakistan’s transnational repression, with what began as a campaign targeting Baloch activists now extending to Pakistani journalists, former officials, military defectors and supporters of Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) living abroad. Many Pakistani exiles in Britain say they have been subjected to surveillance, intimidation and harassment, with their relatives back home also coming under pressur…
United Nations, July 24 (IANS) India has expressed disappointment with the UN for ignoring the repression in Pakistan, particularly in the part of Kashmir it occupies, while it condemns similar developments elsewhere.India’s Permanent Representative P. Harish on Thursday listed Islamabad’s suppression of human rights and stifling of freedom in occupied Kashmir and across the nation, and said, “While similar developments in other countries are excoriated by the United Nations, such repressi…
Islamabad, July 16 (IANS) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) parliamentary committee has decided to hold a nationwide movement starting August 5 for the release of party chief Imran Khan and to raise other demands, according to local media reports. August 5 will mark the completion of three years of Imran Khan’s imprisonment.The decision was taken during a meeting chaired by PTI’s interim chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan held in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. During the meeting, the PTI leaders discussed matt…
Islamabad, July 10 (IANS) Several civil society activists, lawyers and journalists in Pakistan called for the withdrawal of Punjab’s ‘Habitual Offenders’ bill, describing it as “regressive” and warning that if enacted, the legislation would have a corrosive impact on human rights protections in the country.Addressing a round table organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), human rights lawyer Asad Jamal said that the primary intent of the bill was to enable the state to legally…
London, July 7 (IANS) As the unrest in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) continues to intensify, a petition has been filed in the British Parliament urging the United Kingdom government to raise concerns with the Pakistani authorities over the alleged human rights abuses and communication restrictions in the occupied territory. This comes amid ongoing unrest in PoK, during which dozens of civilians have reportedly been killed and injured by Pakistani forces, with the region under a strict blockade…
Islamabad, June 30 (IANS) Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have approached the country’s Supreme Court against the Islamabad High Court’s decision in the £190m Al-Qadir University Project Trust case. In the petition, the couple has requested the court to suspend their convictions and release pending appeal, local media reported on Tuesday. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife approached the apex court after the Islamabad High Court (IH…
Islamabad, June 6 (IANS) Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-led provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa accused the federal government of denying adequate medical treatment to former Prime Minister and PTI founder Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, local media reported on Saturday. The leaders also accused the Pakistani government of obstructing access for family members and party officials, arguing that these restrictions constitute a violation of rights.Addressing a press conference at Pesh…
Islamabad, May 21 (IANS) Two school children lost their lives on Thursday, after a quadcopter drone struck a hilly area of Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, local media reported.The fatal incident occurred in the Sahi Thangi area, which is situated about 25 kilometres from Khar, the district headquarters of Bajaur, in the afternoon, reported Pakistan’s leading daily Dawn, citing local residents and official sources.The sources added that the children who were killed w…
Islamabad, May 20 (IANS) Several leaders and workers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party staged a sit-in protest in Rawalpindi after they were once again denied a meeting with their chairman and former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who remains imprisoned in Adiala Jail, according to local media reports.The Islamabad police on Tuesday prevented Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi, accompanied by Khan’s sisters and several PTI workers and leaders, from proceeding towards…