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Sunday, August 31, 2025
TopicImran Khan

Topic: Imran Khan

His rule uncertain, Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan cancels speech to nation

Khan’s own allies have joined the opposition to oust the government in a no-trust vote to be held soon.

Imran Khan loses majority as key ally strikes deal with opposition ahead of no-confidence vote

The main coalition partner of Imran Khan's PTI party, Muttahida Qaumi Movement Pakistan, parted ways to strike a deal with the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party late Tuesday.

Imran Khan says he has a secret letter but Pakistanis reading it out in public

Maryam Nawaz Sharif attacked PM Khan by sharing a meme of Mr Bean sealing envelopes meant for himself. She captioned the tweet ‘Threatening letter to Imran Khan!’.

No-trust motion against Pakistan PM Imran Khan tabled in assembly

Khan and allies have 179 members, marginally above the cut-off 172; the Opposition has 162 members.

Imran Khan’s fall is a win for Pakistan’s Generals, not its democracy

Imran Khan’s pushback against Gen Bajwa crossed a fundamental red line. The removal of PMs who intervened in military affairs has been a leitmotif in Pakistan’s post-Zia politics.

Imran Khan has only himself to blame for his fall from grace

Khan is facing a no-confidence motion brought by an enraged, united opposition that he might well lose. Even if he survives, he will find his political capital severely dented.

Imran Khan fans are ready to dive in front of tanks & dodge bullets for him – only on Twitter

Imran Khan's supporters don't want to allow anyone to take away their ‘kaptaan’. Even if that means fighting the very people that once installed him.

Decent batsmen walk away when judged out. On political pitch, Imran Khan hasn’t

Zia-ul-Haq may have had no cause to regret summoning Imran Khan to serve the nation, but his current successors at GHQ seem to be experiencing a kind of buyer’s remorse.

‘Will play till the last ball,’ says Pak PM Imran Khan as trust motion looms

Some 20 of Khan’s PTI members, and even his coalition partners, may join the Opposition’s no-confidence move.

Imran Khan’s praise for India’s foreign policy draws ire. Pakistanis ask what about Kashmir?

Many Pakistanis have expressed displeasure and outrage over Khan’s statement with some calling him the ‘darling of Indian media’.

On Camera

From Vedanta, India turned to Nehruvian socialism and buried its liberal roots: Sharad Joshi

An Indian Hitler will have to be exceptionally lucky to survive for any length of time. This much hope ought to be enough for seekers of liberty and equality, wrote Sharad Anantrao Joshi, president of Swatantra Bharat Paksh party, in 1995.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Ahead of SCO meet, Russia & China stage maiden joint submarine patrol in Sea of Japan, East China Sea

Joint submarine patrol ‘covered more than 2,000 nautical miles’ and was joined by Russian support vessels. Beijing maintains exercise ‘not directed against any third party’.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.