Tag: ExPakistan

UN group demands release of ex-Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan

A United Nations human rights working group on Monday called for the immediate release of Pakistan’s imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan, saying he had been detained “arbitrarily in violation of international laws”. The Geneva-based United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention made this demand after examining Khan’s case in which he was sentenced last […]

Video shows ex-Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif’s China visit in 2013, not 2024

Pakistan’s foreign ministry said former prime minister Nawaz Sharif‘s trip to China in April 2024 was a “private” one but social media posts misleadingly claimed a video showed he received a high-profile official welcome. The video in the posts was actually taken during Sharif’s first official foreign trip in July 2013 after he was elected […]

Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan and wife plead not guilty in corruption case

Pakistan’s imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife have pleaded not guilty in a corruption case alleging they accepted the gift of land from a property tycoon in exchange for large sums of laundered money. The case is the second to indict Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi over acts of corruption allegedly […]