Many political leaders, including Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Nawaz Sharif, Hamza Shahbaz, Asif Ali Zardari, Raja Pervez Ashraf, and Shaukat Tareen, have benefited from the government's amendments to the laws of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). However, many politicians and ...

LAHORE – A court in Punjab’s capital city Wednesday acquitted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz in the Rs16 billion money laundering case. The Special Court, Central, announced the verdict after the Federal Investigation Agency prosecutor informed the judge that no money ...

Special court on Tuesday granted exemption from court appearance to prime minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif in a money laundering link case. PM Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz are facing a case of Rs16 billion in money laundering link through fake companies. At the start of today’s ...

LAHORE – A special central court has summoned Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz for indictment in a money laundering case filed by the Federal Investigation Agency against them. As the hearing began, counsels for the father-son duo requested the court to grant one-day ...

*LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) will hear Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s plea seeking disqualification of PM Shehbaz Sharif on August 1 (Monday). * The plea would be heard by Justice Shujaat Ali Khan.The plea was filed by PTI’s Andleeb Abbas and Hassan Niazi. Centre, the Principal Secretary ...

LAHORE – The candidate of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Sibtain Khan was elected as the Speaker of Punjab Assembly, as he defeated opposition candidate Malik Saif-ul-Malook Khokhar. The much-sought election for Punjab Assembly speaker is underway ...

LAHORE – The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) has recommended the removal of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain as the party president. Reports in local media suggest that the decision was made in a meeting of the PML-Q central working committee in Lahore. Chaired by Senator Kamil Ali Agha, it ...

LAHORE – The Punjab Assembly on Thursday passed a no-confidence motion against deputy speaker Dost Muhammad Mazari after he gave ruling in favour of PML-N’s Hamza Shahbaz in CM election. In today’s assembly session, Parliamentary Leader in the Provincial Assembly Raja Basharat submitted a ...

*ISLAMABAD: Following a high-level reshuffle in the bureaucracy, the federal government on Wednesday removed Director General Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Muhammad Tahir Rai from the post. * According to a well-placed source, the federal cabinet, which met in Islamabad with the prime ...

ISLAMABAD – Maryam Nawaz, daughter of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif and vice-president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), has reacted to the Supreme Court verdict in the Punjab chief minister election case. The Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker ...