All-rounder Nawaz suspended for 2 months in spot-fixing case

Sharif's directions to leaders of his party came days after Sindh Governor Muhammad Zubair called Gen Sharif "just another general" and said he should not be made "larger than life". The post Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif bars his partymen from commenting on Gen ...

Sheikh Saleh bin Muhammad Bin Talib, the Imam of Makkah's Grand Mosque, held a meeting with Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif in Islamabad on Saturday.During the meeting, the two sides discussed ways religious leaders and scholars can counter negative ...

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's younger brother Shehbaz Sharif today hit out at the country's powerful military, saying unlike the military rulers who "usurped" power at gunpoint, his family respects the law. Shehbaz, the 65-year-old Punjab chief ...

[Pakistan], May 27 (ANI): Hussain Nawaz, the eldest son of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, has submitted a plea against two Joint Investigation Team Officers, Bilal Rasool and Ahmer Aziz, expressing his apprehension about the impartiality of the ...

'Will Muhammad Habib Zahir -- who was part of the team that arrested Kulbhushan Jadhav and went missing in Nepal -- figure in a Jadhav-for-Zahir deal?' asks Aditi Phadnis.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   It is a rare court judgment that ends up satisfying everyone. In its order on charges of money laundering and corruption against Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family, the country's fiercely independent supreme court played Solomon and managed that feat by allowing ...

The Pakistani Supreme Court ordered for a joint investigation team to probe the allegations of money laundering against his family. Embattled Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Thursday got a temporary breather from the Supreme Court which said there was ‘insufficient evidence’ to remove him from office but ordered setting up of a joint team to investigate the graft allegations against his family. The high-profile graft case is about alleged money laundering by Sharif in 1990s ...

Taking note of a string of recent statements about General (Retd.) Raheel Sharif, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has restricted the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders from passing any more controversial remarks about the former army chief."PM Nawaz ...

The Joint Investigation Team (JIT), which has been tasked with probing the family of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for their offshore properties has received the records of the Hudaibya Paper Mills. The JIT has said that it would place its latest ...

'Afghanistan cannot be at peace until the Pashtuns regain their pre-eminent role in the country's governance,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. IMAGE: An Afghan soldier keeps watch as chaos continues to descend on Kabul. Photograph: Omar Sobhani/Reuters What on earth brought United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to Afghanistan? The most obvious explanation could be that he is obliged to pay a visit to Afghanistan after assuming office in New York. From initial accounts, Guterres ...