Karachi: The MQM on Monday accused Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf chief Imran Khan of turning Karachi into a battlefield after the May 11 General Elections, as the war of words between the two political parties intensified. Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader Asif Hasnain who has won a National Assembly seat in the elections said that Imran had offended MQM supporters by accusing him of killing a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf leader. "Imran should have shown...
07:30 AM, May 21, 2013
Karachi: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf on Monday secured an overwhelming victory in repolling held in one constituency of Pakistan's violence-plagued city of Karachi, election officials said. PTI's Arif Alvi bagged 17,489 votes, while his opponent Naimatullah Khan of Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) managed to secure only 446 votes for the NA-250 seat though his party boycotted the poll, according to unofficial results published in the Pakistani media. The repoll was ordered...
05:57 PM, May 20, 2013
Supporters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party led by Imran Khan, gathered in the Clifton district of southern Karachi on Sunday to protest against the killing of senior party member Zahra Shahid. ...
10:05 AM, May 20, 2013
Karachi/Lahore: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan will lead protests in Pakistan's largest city of Karachi against the killing of a senior leader of his party for which he has directly blamed MQM chief Altaf Hussain. In a video message released on Sunday, Khan, who is under treatment at the Shaukat Khanum hospital in Lahore after an accident during the election campaign, said as soon as he was well he would himself lead...
01:43 AM, May 20, 2013
Mumbai: He vouches for friendly competition with his contemporaries, but Ranbir Kapoor confesses his 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani' co-star Deepika Padukone is the only one in the industry who intimidates him. Ayan Mukerji-directed 'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani' has brought the real life ex-couple together on the screen after five years - their first and the last film together was 2008 movie 'Bachna Ae Haseeno'. "I always expected from Deepika to...
03:57 PM, May 19, 2013
In this episode of The Week That Wasn't, Cyrus Broacha takes on IPL 6 spot-fixing, Sreesanth, politician and former Pakistan cricketer Imran Khan and much more. ...
03:56 PM, May 19, 2013
Karachi: Cricketer turned politician Imran Khan has held the chief of Mutthaida Qaumi Movement (MQM) directly responsible for the killing of a senior leader of his party in the city. "I hold Altaf Hussain directly responsible for the murder as he had openly threatened Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf workers and leaders through public broadcasts," Imran said in a statement from his hospital bed late Saturday night. The statement came hours after the...
08:55 AM, May 19, 2013
Karachi: A senior leader of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party was shot dead in Karachi on Saturday, police said. Zahra Shahid Hussain, the vice-president of the party's chapter in Sindh, was shot by two unidentified men outside her home in Defence Phase IV late on Saturday night. She died while being taken to a nearby hospital. Hussain was a member of the party's central executive committee. The motive for the...
12:51 AM, May 19, 2013
Nawaz Sharif's PML-N bagged 125 of the 272 directly elected seats in Pakistan's National Assembly but fell short of a majority and is poised to form a government with support of independents and smaller parties. ...
11:47 AM, May 18, 2013
Islamabad: Two blasts ripped through as many mosques in the restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing 15 people and injuring 25 others, security officials said. The blasts occurred during Friday prayers in the mosques at Bazdara area of Malakand district, an erstwhile stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban. Fifteen people were killed, officials of the Levies militia told the media. The mosques were damaged by the blasts. Local...
04:22 PM, May 17, 2013
London: Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) will celebrate the Bicentenary of Lord's next year with two showpiece matches against the Rest of the World. MCC owns the, which famous Lord's Ground in north London, on Wednesday revealed they will play the star-studded 50-overs fixture on a yet to be confirmed date in 2014. When the MCC celebrated its own Bicentenary in 1987, the world's best players gathered for a one-off five-day...
10:11 PM, May 15, 2013
Lahore: Imran Khan on Wednesday promised to cooperate with Nawaz Sharif to tackle key challenges like terrorism despite "serious political differences" with the PML-N chief who is set to become Pakistan's next Prime Minister. "We have serious political differences but we decided that we will work together to solve the country's problems, including terrorism," the cricketer-turned-politician said in a video message aired at a news conference by his Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf...
10:10 PM, May 15, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistani actress Meera, who has acted in two Indian movies, Wednesday visited cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan in hospital where he is admitted since being injured during an election rally. The Lollywood actress inquired about the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief's health, Geo News reported. Meera later told media persons that she had inquired about Khan's health, expressed her well wishes and congratulated him on his victory in the May 11 elections....
04:33 PM, May 15, 2013
Islamabad: Infighting has broken out in Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf over choosing a Chief Minister for the crucial Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, with two top leaders jockeying for the position. Pervez Khattak, the secretary general of the party, and Asad Qaisar, the president of the party's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chapter, are in the race for the post of Chief Minister. Khan's party has emerged the single largest force in the provincial assembly and is...
11:47 AM, May 15, 2013
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf continues to demand recounting in 25 constituencies, alleging massive rigging. ...
09:53 AM, May 15, 2013
Lahore: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, set to become Pakistan's next Prime Minister, on Tuesday reached out to his rival Imran Khan and suggested that the two of them should play a "friendly match". Sharif visited the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf chief at Shaukat Khanum Hospital, where he is recuperating after fracturing his spine in a fall at a campaign meeting days before the May 11 general elections. Sharif inquired about Imran's health...
10:54 PM, May 14, 2013
Islamabad: Nawaz Sharif's PML-N has emerged as the single largest party in Pakistan's landmark General Elections with 123 of the 272 Parliamentary seats but fell short of a majority and would form a government with support of independents and smaller parties. The PML-N's two closest rivals the Pakistan People's Party and Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf lagged far behind with 32 and 27 seats, respectively. Earlier, trends from the counting of...
08:50 PM, May 14, 2013
Islamabad: Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf is set to form government in the militancy-hit Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province with the backing of the Jamaat-e-Islami while the PML-N and several smaller parties are expected to form a coalition in the restive Balochistan province. The Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf emerged the single largest party in Khyber-Pakhtunkwa by bagging 35 of the 99 directly elected seats far short of a simple majority. The Jamaat-e-Islami, which won seven seats,...
02:37 PM, May 14, 2013
Karachi: An elections observer group in Pakistan has confirmed reports of rigging at some polling stations in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi. The Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN) has provided statistics supporting reports of rigging at several Karachi polling stations where voter turnout was abnormally high. Since the elections were held on Saturday, the media and many political parties, including Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf and Jamaat-e-Islaami, have alleged rigging...
12:49 AM, May 14, 2013
PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has emerged victorious in Pakistan elections. ...
11:35 PM, May 13, 2013
