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Jan 16, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Nadir Guramani |Tahir Naseer
Cartoon: 15 January, 2025 Govt retires Rs1.5tr bank debt Indian PM opens tunnel to zones near China, Pakistan Missing justice Geopolitics of climate change Trump’s approach is a contradiction between public rhetoric and strategic planning. Updated 16 Jan, 2025 Fight over resources 16 Jan, 2025 Moaning myrtles Updated 16 Jan, 2025 Now what?
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Tahir Naseer
Bushra Bibi, the wife of former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan, said during a court hearing on Tuesday that her “faith in the law has been lost.”She made the remarks while appearing at an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad for a hearing related to the Rangers accident case.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Tahir Naseer
The verdict in the £190m Al-Qadir Trust case against former premier Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi — expected to be announced today (Monday) — was postponed for the third time. On Dec 23 — the original date the verdict was supposed to be announced — an Islamabad accountability court postponed its verdict in the case until Jan 6 due to winter vacations. Then, on January 6, the decision could not be pronounced as Judge Nasir Javed Rana was on leave.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Tahir Naseer |Aqdas Afzal
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad on Friday approved the bail of 153 PTI workers who were arrested on November 26 when law enforcement agencies carried out a crackdown on protesters at Islamabad’s D-Chowk. On Nov 13, Imran issued a “final call” for nationwide protests on Nov 24, demanding the restoration of the PTI’s electoral mandate, the release of detained party members, and the reversal of the 26th Amendment which he said had strengthened a “dictatorial regime”.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Tahir Naseer
PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said on Wednesday that party founder Imran Khan had permitted the submission of the party’s demands in writing to the government amid ongoing negotiations to bring down the political temperature. Since Imran’s incarceration last year in several cases, PTI’s relations with the government and the establishment have deteriorated sharply, marked by protests that frequently escalated into violence amid state repression.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Tahir Naseer |Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) Justice Arbab Mohammad Tahir on Friday expressed his dismay over the arrest of civilians not involved in last week’s PTI protest, following which more than 1,400 suspects were arrested by the capital and Rawalpindi police. The remarks come amid claims by the PTI that the police are discriminating against and racially profiling Pakhtuns as well as invading citizens’ privacy by conducting mobile checks of ordinary citizens to trace party supporters.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Tahir Naseer
Amid reports circulating on social media about Islamabad police conducting random checks of people’s mobile phones to trace PTI supporters, party leader and senior lawyer Shoaib Shaheen has claimed the same, terming it an “extremely dangerous act”. The development comes amid Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur alleging police of discrimination and profiling of Pakhtuns, as he raised the issue with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in a letter yesterday.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Tahir Naseer
PTI founder and ex-prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday was indicted in the case of attacking the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi on May 9, 2023, while senior PTI leaders, including ex-law minister Raja Basharat, were arrested from outside Adiala Jail. Following the arrest of the ex-premier on May 9, 2023, from the Islamabad High Court’s premises, riots erupted across the country that went on for at least 24 hours.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Tahir Naseer
A special court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for PTI founder Imran Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi, in the new Toshakhana case for failing to appear in court for the past 10 hearings. Last month, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted bail to Imran in a recent Toshakhana case while the government ruled out his release due to the pending bail in cases against him. Imran and Bushra were apprehended in the case on July 13, following their acquittal in the Iddat case the same day.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
dawn.com | Tahir Naseer
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday expressed dismay over the shutdown of businesses in the capital during PTI’s ‘final call’ protest, noting that actions of both the government and the protesting party were “wrong”. On Nov 13, Imran issued a “final call” for nationwide protests on Nov 24, demanding the restoration of the PTI’s electoral mandate, the release of detained party members, and the reversal of the 26th Amendment which he said had strengthened a “dictatorial regime”.
