A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced PTI worker Muhammad Ismail to life for the May 9 riots in Mianwali and declared 50 others, including senior leaders, as fugitives. Another court also issued arrest warrants for 18 PTI leaders over a 2024 protest, warning of action against absconders
The terrorists, reportedly armed with heavy weapons, launched a surprise assault on the police station, which is located in the Isa Khel circle near the border between Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Two policemen were injured in an ambush on a checkpost in Mianwali by more than a dozen Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists -- branded as Kharijis (outcasts) by the government--late on Sunday night, Dawn reported citing a statement issued by the Punjab police today.
Mianwali police, in a handout, claimed that their assistant sub-inspector (ASI) had only gone to the residence to serve the bailable warrants, not to arrest the opposition leader
The ATC courts in Sargodha on Tuesday acquitted all 37 PTI workers in Sargodha, including Pakistan's former Member of National Assembly (MNA) Amjad Ali Khan. However, Mianwali City Police arrested them from the Sargodha central jail compound as soon as they came out of the prison and brought
Despite being disqualified from contesting the next elections, jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan had his nomination papers submitted from his home constituency in Mianwali on Friday, Geo News reported.
Police broke into the house of a Pakistani correspondent, Khursheed Anwar Khan, late Thursday night without any warrants and searched his house, harassing the family, according to Dawn.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has raised concern over terrorist attacks on security forces days after the date of the general elections was announced.
As many as nine terrorists were killed in a clearance operation after Pakistan's army foiled a terrorist attack on the Mianwali Training Air Base of the Pakistan Air Force in the early hours of Saturday.