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IHC grants Imran bail in new Toshakhana case

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday granted bail to incarcerated former premier Imran Khan in a recent Toshakhana case. IHC’s Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb presided over the case today and granted bail subject to furnishing two bonds of Rs1 million each. The judge also ordered the PTI founder to appear before the trial court after bail, warning that the bail could be revoked if Imran did not cooperate with the court during the trial. Imran and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were apprehended in the case on July 13, following their acquittal in the Iddat case the same day. While Bushra Bibi had secured bail in the case from the IHC last month, allowing her to be freed from jail, the PTI founder has remained incarcerated since his arrest on August 5 last year in a separate Toshakhana case. In the most recent case, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) accused the couple of retaining an expensive Bulgari jewellery set gifted by a foreign leader — including a necklace, earrings,
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Fact check: Video of Attaullah Esakhelvi urging people to come out for Imran is old, not for Nov 24 rally

Posts from several PTI-affiliated accounts on social media platform X since November 17 shared a video of veteran Pakistani singer Attaullah Esakhelvi urging people to come out and participate in a PTI protest ahead of the party’s Nov 24 power show . However, the video is old from March 2022. The iVerify Pakistan team has reviewed this content and determined that it is misleading . To reach this conclusion, iVerify Pakistan conducted a reverse image search to investigate the viral video of veteran Pakistani singer Attaullah Esakhelvi. On Nov 13, PTI founder Imran Khan issued a “final call” for nationwide protests on Nov 24 (Sunday), denouncing what he described as the stolen mandate, the unjust arrests of people and the passage of the 26th Amendment, which he said strengthened a “dictatorial regime”. Since Imran’s arrest in August 2023 on several counts, his party has been holding protests across the country for his release and against the alleged rigging of the Feb 8, 2024 electi
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12 security men martyred, 6 terrorists killed following attack on Bannu check post

Twelve personnel were martyred while six terrorists were killed after a checkpost was targeted in the Mali Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu, the military’s media affairs wing said on Wednesday. The incident comes amid a sharp uptick in the number of attacks targeting security forces, other law enforcement agencies, and security checkpoints, particularly in Balochistan and KP. The restive Bannu district has seen heightened militant violence of late, including the abduction of cops , an attack on a girls’ school and a shootout that martyred three security men. In a press release, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that on November 19 (Tuesday), “ khwarij attempted to attack a Joint Check Post in general area MaliKhel in Bannu District”. The attack was effectively thwarted, the ISPR said, but a suicide blast led to the collapse of the checkpost’s perimeter wall and adjoining infrastructure, resulting in the martyrdom of 10 soldiers and two Frontier Constabulary
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Fact check: Nawaz did not say Khawaja Asif’s London heckling is ‘written in his fate’

Posts from multiple users on social media platform X on November 14 circulated a clip, claiming that it showed PML-N President Nawaz Sharif remarking that Defence Minister Khawaja Asif’s heckling in London was “written in his fate”. However, the viral clip is incomplete and shows the PML-N supremo referring to overseas PTI supporters. Asif repor­ted to the London police that he faced threats of violence, harassment, and verbal abuse while travelling on a train in the British capital on Nov 11. The Pakistan High Commission confirmed the incident, adding that the London Transport Police was investigating it. Overseas PTI supporters have been in the news in recent years for publicly heckling and mobbing political figures from opposing parties, particularly in London. Notable incidents include the harassment of PML-N’s Marriyum Aurangzeb in September 2022, Hina Pervaiz Butt in August 2023 and former chief justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa earlier this month. A PTI supporter made a p
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Negotiators seek to break COP29 impasse after G20 ‘marching orders’

Negotiators sought on Tuesday to break a deadlock at UN climate talks after G20 leaders backed the need for “trillions” of dollars for poorer countries but left key sticking points unresolved. Ministers at the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan had been eagerly waiting for the G20 meeting in Rio de Janeiro to issue a declaration that might jump-start the stalled negotiations. While the lack of a phrase calling for “transitioning away from fossil fuels” disappointed activists, the statement on climate finance was cautiously welcomed at the sports stadium hosting the talks. “G20 delegations now have their marching orders for here in Baku,” UN climate chief Simon Stiell said in a statement. “We urgently need all nations to bypass the posturing and move swiftly towards common ground, across all issues,” he said. View this post on Instagram Rich nations are being urged to significantly raise their pledge of $100 billion a year in financin
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UK and India to resume stalled free trade talks

Britain and India will resume stalled talks to agree a free-trade deal, the two countries said after their leaders met at the G20 summit in Brazil. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who took power i n London in July, hailed his meeting with Indian counterpart Narendra Modi as “very productive” and vowed that a trade pact with Delhi would boost UK growth. “A new trade deal will support jobs and prosperity in the UK — and represent a step forward in our mission to deliver growth and opportunity across the country,” he posted on X late Monday. Hours earlier, Starmer’s office confirmed the two countries would relaunch the talks “in the new year” as Britain sought “a new strategic partnership with India”. That will include “deepening cooperation in areas like security, education, technology, and climate change,” Downing Street said in a statement summarising the meeting of the two leaders. India’s foreign ministry said both leaders had “underlined the importance of resuming the Free
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Sindh erupts in protest against Centre’s plan to dig six canals from Indus River

HYDERABAD: Almost all political and religious parties, nationalist groups and civil society organisations took part in widespread rallies held across Sindh on Sunday against the controversial plan of digging six canals to irrigate lands in Punjab. Although Pakistan People Party (PPP) stayed away from the street protests, it also rejected the plan in unequivocal terms. The major events were held in Hyderabad (where Sindh United Party’s ‘Bedari March’, which was started from Sakrand, culminated outside the local press club) and Larkana (where leaders of Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA), Jamat-i-Islami (JI), Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and other parties addressed participants of a rally. In Hyderabad, leaders of the ‘Save River Indus Movement’ — formed by GDA component parties and several other nationalist groups — spoke to the participants of the ‘Bedari March’ upon its arrival at Nasim Nagar Chowk, Qasimabad, from Sakrand. In their fiery speeches, the leaders strongly oppos
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