Imran Khan's party Pakistan Tehrreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has called for nationwide 'shutdown' today against the arrest of the former prime minister, according to Dawn.
Pakistan has a lengthy history of imprisoning former prime ministers. Ever since it was created, Pakistan is infamous for such incidents. Earlier in 1950, Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in Rawalpindi's Company Bagh (aka East India Company Garden) during a public meeting of the Muslim C
The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday termed former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan's arrest as "legal," reported Geo News.
Former Prime Minister Imran Khan's politics is defined by "blatant lies" and attacks on institutions, said Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday after Khan's arrest.
The former Prime Minister lambasted the PDM government saying they are now openly attacking the Supreme Court. The PTI chairman Imran Khan said that 70 per cent of people have no representation in the provincial and National Assembly.
Pankaj Tripathi on Sunday started shooting for his upcoming film 'Main Atal Hoon', a biopic based on the life of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
While talking to ANI, the Janata Dal (Secular) leader said, "No reaction on anybody's assessment. It is their assessment. Let them enjoy till the mandate of the people is declared. Just wait and watch how things move in Karnataka."
Protestors in Nepal on Wednesday waved black flags and pelted stones on the convoy of former Prime Minister and leader of the opposition party KP Sharma Oli.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi said on Tuesday that the speciality of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was that she never broke the trust of the people.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday remembered his father Rajiv Gandhi on National Panchayati Raj Day and said that the initiative of the former Prime Minister has to be strengthened.
Delhi's Karkardooma Court recently acquitted a person allegedly giving false information telephonically to the police that a person had links with terrorists and was involved in a conspiracy to kill former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.