Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announced that it will carry out nationwide protests on August 5, as the party founder and former Prime Minister, Imran Khan will complete one year in jail.
Pakistan's Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Attaullah Tarar said that the government will ban PTI and will begin proceedings against it for "treason" for dissolving the National Assembly during a no-confidence motion in April 2022
The PTI submitted the list to the electoral watchdog a day after the ECP partially implemented the Supreme Court's verdict on reserved seats for the party, notifying 39 of the 80 returned MNAs as PTI lawmakers after an inordinate delay.
The protests, organised at the provincial assembly level, saw local PTI lawmakers and leaders taking prominent roles in addressing the crowds. In Peshawar, demonstrations were conducted across all 13 provincial assembly constituencies, with a notable gathering in the Namak Mandi area led by
PTI has postponed its protest on Friday in Islamabad after the Islamabad High Court's (IHC) decision to reserve its verdict on PTI's petition requesting permission to hold the protest.
A two-member bench, which includes Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh and Justice Anwar-ul-Haq Pannu, reserved the verdict on the petitions challenging Imran Khan's physical remand.
Section 144 has been imposed in Pakistan's Punjab and Islamabad amid the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) plans to hold protests across the nation on Friday.
The Information Minister said that the ruling government of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will go ahead with the "principled" decision to ban Imran Khan's party and it will be varied out after relevant legal consultations
A two-day physical remand of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)'s Information Secretary, Raoof Hasan, has been approved by a district and sessions court in Islamabad on Tuesday, according to ARY News.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had sought a 14-day remand for Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi. However, the court rejected the request and asked the anti-graft body to present the suspects on July 29.