Tag: Panamagate

Nawaz Sharif handed 7-year jail, fined Rs5bn in Al-Azizia reference

--Court acquits former PM in Flagship Investment case due to insufficient evidence, NAB to challenge acquittal --Orders federal govt to approach Saudi govt for seizure...

JIT found no link between Nawaz and Hill Metal, Gulf Steel...

--JIT head Zia tells accountability court they didn't question deposed PM about ownership and funding of Hill Metal company   ISLAMABAD: Panamagate Joint Investigation Team (JIT) head...

Nawaz fires salvo at judiciary, says judges have ‘ruined’ country

Terming the NAB references against him "seeds of discord" and "vengeance", Ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif has said that Panama Papers’ judgement—made by a...

Nawaz’s return disappointed ‘some people’, says Maryam

LAHORE: “The return of former prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif has disappointed some people,” said Maryam Nawaz on Thursday. Talking...

Sharifs fail to find irregularities in ‘authentic’ SC verdict: Sh Rashid

Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rashid on Friday, while commenting on Supreme Court’s dismissal of Nawaz Sharif and children’s petitions, claimed that the...

Panamagate: Nawaz asks court to hear his petition against five-member bench...

  Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his children, in a request to the Supreme Court, have asked the court to hear their petition against...

Khursheed Shah asks IK to prove 10b allegations or leave politics

Two days after the claims of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan that he was offered Rs10 billion by the government to back down from...

Khan sees underhand deal behind bail to Dr Asim, Memon, Ayyan

Alleges PM Nawaz Sharif brokered a deal with Zardari ISLAMABAD: Breaking his weeks-long mysterious silence, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Wednesday alleged that the...

Trip down memory lane: House of Sharif vs judiciary of Pakistan

  From Plane Hijacking Case, Hudaibiya Mills Reference to Air Marshal (r) Asghar Khan’s Case, Sharif family has evaded the judicial axe so far ISLAMABAD: On...

NAB busy in protecting rulers: Siraj

Siraj says powers of appointing NAB chairman must be taken away from the PM and the opposition leader Jamaat e Islami (JI) chief Siraj ul Haq...

Panamagate: case not likely to resume next week either

Jurists stand divided on the fate of Panamagate case bench New bench would start hearing from zero, says Advocate Shahid Rasool No need...

PM spent Rs12b on self-projection from state kitty: Imran

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan claimed the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has spent at least Rs12 billion on publicity campaigns from the national...

Future of Panamagate case should be according to masses’ wishes: Siraj

While addressing the closing ceremony of Seerat Conference at Mansoora Lahore, Jamaat-i-Islami Ameer Siraj-ul-Haq professed that the accountability of those, involved in corruption and henceforth sending a huge...

Panamagate: JI’s counsel seeks PM’s disqualification

Claims PM speech on the floor of the House is a ‘confession’ Taufeeq Asif is unclear about the difference between a precedent and an argument Jamaat-e-Islami’s...

Governance suffers as Panamagate lingers on in SC

Five slots of grade 22 officers are awaiting PM’s nod Secretaries of Finance, Foreign Affairs, Communications and Petroleum yet to be named It seems...

Panamagate: ‘PM is not seeking immunity’

But that’s what the petitioners have based their case on, PM’s counsel ‘Parliament legislates and court interprets’: Makhdoom Ali Khan Maryam says she...

Panamagate: ‘PM’s speech is privileged’

Prime Minister’s counsel Makhdoom Ali Khan continued his arguments for the fourth consecutive day in the Panama Papers leaks case here in Supreme Court...