ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan( ECP) on Monday issued notices to 46 dissident members of the National and Punjab assemblies, asking them to appear before it on April 28 and May 6, respectively. The decision was taken at an ECP meeting during which a letter written to the commission by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf( PTI) Chairman Imran Khan was deliberated upon. The ECP in its meeting, which was chaired by Chief Election Commissioner( CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja and attended, among other

ISLAMABAD: PTI dissenter and ex-MPA from Punjab Zahara Batool on Monday challenged in the Supreme Court the May 20 Election Commission of Pakistan’s( ECP) decision to de-seat 25 dissidents who had voted for PML-N’s Hamza Shehbaz in the election for the Punjab chief minister.In her petition, moved through counsel Abdul Shakoor Paracha, Ms Batool requested the apex court to set aside the ECP decision which dubbed them defectors under Article 63-A of the Constitution. The ECP through chief election

Supreme Court Justice Munib Akhtar, who is part of a five-member bench hearing a presidential reference seeking the SC's interpretation of Article 63-A of the Constitution, observed on Friday that the" honourable way out for dissident lawmakers is to resign and go home".... When the hearing resumed today, PTI counsel Ali Zafar continued his arguments, saying the purpose of Article 63-A was to end horse-trading.... " Violation of 63-A is a violation of the Constitution," he said, adding that vo

The Lahore High Court( LHC) on Wednesday directed the Election Commission of Pakistan( ECP) and Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja to submit their responses on April 29 in connection with a reference to de-seat dissident PTI lawmakers in the Punjab Assembly.... Justice Shujaat Ali Khan heard the petition which was filed by the party's parliamentary leader in the provincial assembly, Muhammad Sibtain Khan.... The petition requested the court to issue directions to the ECP and CEC

ISLAMABAD: The newly appointed opposition leader Raja Riaz Ahmed on Monday made an ugly start in the National Assembly as he received the wrath of his own colleagues on the opposition benches over his maiden address, in which he had lashed out at PTI chairman Imran Khan and suggest the coalition government use force against the former prime minister in order to stop him from spreading anarchy through his planned long march.Mr Ahmed, a PTI dissident, in his first-ever speech after his nomination

HANOI( REUTERS)-A court in Vietnam jailed a journalist and prominent dissident for nine years on Tuesday( Dec 14) for anti-state activities, her lawyers and state media said, in a case that attracted the attention of international human rights groups. Pham Doan Trang, who published material widely on human rights and alleged police brutality in Vietnam, was convicted of" conducting propaganda against the state" by a Hanoi court, according to her legal team and state-controlled media. Despite swe

He was also found to be staying at Sindh House, along with many other PTI MNAs, ahead of the no-trust vote.... On Monday, the ECP had issued notices to the 20 dissident MNAs, asking them to appear before it on April 28. The ECP also issued notices to 26 dissident PTI MPAs from the Punjab Assembly, asking them to appear before the electoral watchdog on May 6.... References against them were sent to the ECP by Punjab Assembly Speaker Chauhdry Parvez Elahi....

PTI dissident Abdul Aleem Khan on Wednesday refuted rumours of a" heated argument and fight" with PML-N leader Hamza Shahbaz at a private hotel in Lahore.... Aleem Khan's clarification comes in the wake of reports on social media that he got into a disagreement with the PML-N leader last night at a Lahore hotel where Hamza allegedly slapped the former.... It was also said that the PTI dissident warned Hamza of resignations if his terms and conditions were not met....

Karachi police on Monday booked two Pakistan Tehreeki-Insaf( PTI) MPAs and others on charges of rioting outside and forcibly entering the residence of their party's dissident MNA Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani in the city's Bath Island area.A first information report( FIR) against PTI members, including the pair of lawmakers, was registered on the state's behalf through Sub-Inspector( SI) Fatah Mohammed. The FIR has been registered under Sections 147( punishment for rioting), 148( rioting while armed

While much attention was focused on the Senate working into the wee hours of the morning to pass a spending bill in a last-minute bid to avert a partial government shutdown on Friday, a group of senators found a little bipartisan comity around rebuking the Iranian government.A resolution introduced this week by Senator Thom Tillis, a Republican from North Carolina, is the latest effort by members of Congress to extend political recognition to members of the Mojahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK — a group of