NEW DELHI: In a stunning turn of events, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and ex-Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi found themselves sentenced to 10 years in jail by a special court on Tuesday. The conviction was a result of the cipher case, a saga rooted in the disclosure of a classified cable sent to […]

NEW DELHI : Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, have been handed a 14-year prison sentence for illegally acquiring expensive gifts from the state treasury, known as Toshakhana. The judgment follows a recent 10-year prison sentence for Khan over leaking sensitive state secrets, posing further challenges to his electoral aspirations […]

NEW DELHI: Providing relief to former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, and his close aide, Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s bail was granted by the Supreme Court, on Friday. The bail was in relation to the alleged leakage of state secrets. The bail order was approved by a three-member bench led by Justice Sardar Tariq Maqsood, and […]

Pakistan’s former Prime Minister, Imraan Khan’s ex-wife, Jemima Goldsmith, in a recent public statement, shared her unique perspective on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Goldsmith, who converted to Islam during her marriage to Khan, opened up about the challenges her family has faced in relation to the complex issues surrounding this enduring conflict. Taking to the microblogging […]

A recent diplomatic cable leak has reinforced former Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s allegations of US pressure behind his dramatic ouster

Khan was reacting to PM Modi & President Biden's joint statement calling on Pakistan to stop cross-border terrorism & take action against terror groups

Pakistan’s political landscape is in turmoil, with Imran Khan’s acrobatics, surprising twists in US interests, and hidden power plays within the Pakistan Army. As the political circus unfolds, the future looks uncertain for Khan

Observers of the fraught situation in Pakistan have been intrigued by senior US negotiator-diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad’s tweets targeting Pakistan Army chief Asim Munir. Khalilzad repeatedly demanded Munir’s resignation in a series of directly-worded tweets on May 12, May 15, and again on May 19. (His tweets on May 13 were neutral, welcoming the restoration of […]

Having taken aim directly at Pak army chief, Khan has redrawn the intense chess game in such a way that one of the two must get flicked off the board after checkmate

The upshot of the turmoil in Pakistan is that the country’s army has been weakened. Whichever way things turn out now, its role in Pakistan’s polity is likely to be diminished—perhaps severely reduced, at least for a while. This diminishment has been very obvious since the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday. […]