Nawaz Sharif

"Powers to suspend the conviction lie with the government and the judiciary," The News quoted Sanaullah as saying to a private news channel. He added that the government had the powers to commute, reduce or suspend anyone's sentence. If an innocent is wrongly convicted, there is way that the sentence is suspended and they are given a chance to approach the court in a proper way, the Interior Minister said.

Nawaz Sharif was barred by the Supreme Court in 2017 from holding public office and subsequently went abroad for medical treatment after serving just a few months of a 10-year jail sentence on corruption charges. He has been living in London for the last two years since being let out of jail. As per the Interior Ministry, the former premier has been issued a passport with a 10-year validity.

Imran Khan said, "Supreme Court should hold an open hearing on the threat letter... we will not accept any in-camera hearing." The PTI chief also claimed that Pak Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari colluded with "foreign conspirators" to remove him from power, Express Tribune reported.

The former premier's remarks came after Pak President Arif Alvi approved the advice of Prime Minister Imran Khan to dissolve the National Assembly after a summary was sent by the premier in the wake of a no-trust move against him. "Today, a man obsessed with power trampled the Constitution," Nawaz Sharif wrote on his official Twitter handle.

Khan claimed that he knew about a "foreign conspiracy" that was being hatched in London to topple his government since August last year. He also alleged that PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, who has been living in London since 2019 for medical treatment, was plotting against his government.

"What kind of a captain runs away from a contest?" he queried while talking to the media outside Parliament building. He claimed that the NA speaker was a facilitator of Khan and that's why he avoided taking up the no-confidence motion. "In the name of tradition, he is trying to protect Imran Khan," he added.

PM Khan made these comments while criticizing the Opposition’s move to table a No-Confidence motion against his government. “I didn't join politics to know the prices of 'aloo and tamatar' (potatoes and tomatoes). I joined it for the sake of the country's youth… If we want to become a great nation, we will have to support the truth, and this is what I have been preaching for the last 25 years,” PM Khan said.

The 69-years-old leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party (PTI) rode to power in 2017 on the back of massive anti-incumbency against then ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawa (PML-N). However, PM Khan seems to find himself in the similar precarious situation (like his predecessors were) as his government has been saddled by corruption charges. It is pertinent for us to know in detail the issues faced by Pakistan which has bogged down the government .

With Pakistan Prime Minister under siege and the clock ticking on his departure, in a fresh twist of the diabolical and devious, Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz's (PMLN) central spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb claimed that a man sitting in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was attempting to put pressure on party parliamentarians.

"The tide has turned... Mr Imran Khan! No matter how much state's power you use, you cannot save yourself," she wrote on her official Twitter handle. The PML-N Vice President also said that Imran Khan is indulging in a "dirty game" and also encouraging his "ignorant ministers" to do the same.