Topic · Party
Imran Khan’s party: in power from 2018 to 2022, and since then in a running fight with the state from the opposition benches and the streets.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the Pakistan Movement for Justice, was founded by Imran Khan in Lahore in 1996. After years on the margins it won the most seats in the 2018 general election and led the federal government until Khan was voted out in April 2022. It won Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2013 and governed the province until governor’s rule was imposed there in October 2026.
Before the February 2024 election the party lost its cricket-bat symbol over its internal elections, so its candidates stood as independents. They won more seats than any single party, but the PML-N and the PPP formed the government. With Khan in jail, Barrister Gohar Ali Khan has led the party as chairman since December 2023.
The interior minister said JUI-F leaders had urged the government to impose governor’s rule and “rid us of” the PTI, and denied that his trip to Tehran was about a defence pact.
EDITORIAL
Pakistan's four provinces are not an administrative map. They are four estates, kept intact by the men who profit from the distance between citizens and the state.
NATIONAL
Sulaiman Isa Khan, the elder son of Imran Khan, has joined X under his father’s tribal surname, and his first post was viewed more than 750,000 times.
NATIONAL
The JUI-F chief told the National Assembly that Ishaq Dar called him on October 11 to say the cabinet wanted governor’s rule “at all costs”.
NATIONAL
Former ministers Taimur Jhagra and Kamran Bangash are also named, as prosecutors cite forensic analysis of footage from the 2023 arson.
NATIONAL
The 70-year-old, held without charge with her two sisters since September under public-order law, was moved from Kot Lakhpat jail to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology.
NATIONAL
Tariq Fazal Chaudhry also announced a Rs160 billion three-phase package for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, focused on its 12 worst-hit districts.
NATIONAL
“Whosoever is a prisoner of Islamabad will be shifted here,” the interior minister said, as jail sources point to a late-November move for the PTI founder.
NATIONAL
The anti-terrorism court ended the PTI leader’s 50 days in police custody after his lawyer argued a lie-detector test needs his consent.
NATIONAL
The prime minister’s political adviser would not name the PTI leaders involved, and said formal talks need a Shehbaz-Achakzai meeting first.
MILITARY
Kakar, who led the army from 1993 to 1996 and pushed both the president and prime minister out in 1993, is mourned by Field Marshal Asim Munir, the president and the prime minister.
NATIONAL
Chairing a security meeting in Peshawar, the prime minister accused the outgoing PTI government of letting militants return to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and vowed to restore the province’s progress.
NATIONAL
The defence minister said PTI’s champions abroad were “printing money” and earning dollars from the ordeal of the very leader they swear by, while the party at home pays for their posts.
OPINION
He spent a career negotiating at the table of power. Now, locked out of the room, Maulana Fazlur Rehman has begun to sound like the man he helped remove.
NEWSROOM
The federal government has moved to impose an emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to protect citizens and restore peace, with President Asif Ali Zardari signing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's advice on the province's security situation
ANALYSIS
Pakistan's courts are already ordering what Johnson demands. The man who slashed Britain's aid to Pakistan now wants to use "our leverage" to overrule its courts. Everything else in his Daily Mail column is wrong, half-told or left out.
EDITORIAL
Imran Khan’s sister says he is fit, with normal blood pressure and improved eyesight. Official records document specialist treatment and family access. Yet the international narrative remains one of isolation and medical crisis. The record versus the rhetoric.
ANALYSIS
Zulfikar Bukhari's remarks to Reuters, describing a freed Imran Khan as unwilling to confront army chief Asim Munir, don't just shift PTI's tone. Coming from one of Khan's closest aides, they quietly kill the "dut kar khara hai kaptaan" promise that has held the party's base together for two years.
NEWSROOM
The Supreme Court has ordered the transfer of Imran Khan from Adiala Jail to Shifa International Hospital for medical assessment and treatment, while directing that his health condition should not be used for political activity or media campaigning.
NEWSROOM
Sohail Afridi, the Chief Minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has claimed that Imran Khan first proposed the peace talks now unfolding in Pakistan as far back as 2002, adding a new burst of controversy to the country’s already charged political landscape.
