On Friday, earthquake tremors were detected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Swat district and surrounding regions. The magnitude of the earthquake was 4.4 on the Richter scale, the depth was 124 km underground, and the epicentre was near the border region of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, according to the Seismological Centre. TheContinue Reading

Ali Muhammad Khan, the head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was detained again on Friday, two days after the Peshawar High Court (PHC) granted his release. Mr Khan was also named in a corruption investigation, according to police. Mr Khan had previously been ordered released by the PHC after beingContinue Reading

The disgruntled PTI leader Jahangir Tareen established a three-person committee on Tuesday to seek for defectors as he gets ready to found a new political organisation. A committee will be led by Awn Chaudhry, Sardar Tanvir Ilyas, and Ishaq Khakwani to ask PTI defectors to join Mr. Tareen’s political party.Continue Reading

Pervaiz Elahi, the head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and a former Punjab chief minister, will appear at Gujranwala’s anti-corruption court tomorrow. According to ACE officials, Pervaiz Elahi was held by the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE)’s Gujranwala branch in connection with a corruption case. Two corruption allegations were filed against theContinue Reading