Pakistan

In a latest development, the global lender has called on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to follow the constitutional laws to resolve the political disputes, further deteriorating the uncertain political situation in the country, directly affecting the economic condition. Prime Minister Sharif had recently contacted Kristalina Georgieva.

Khan has been asked to appear before the JIT at 4 p.m. at the Qilla Gujjar police headquarters, Dawn reported. He has been called for questioning in a case registered with the Sarwar Road police station against the attack.

The former Prime Minister who had been ousted via a vote of no-confidence last year   has been facing a slew of cases, including the infamous 190 million pound settlement case related to the transfer of multi-million pounds from the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA), in which his wife Bushra Bibi is also an accused, Geo News reported.

Taking to Twitter, Imran Khan and party's handle had tweeted videos of burning trucks and claimed they belonged to Malik Shahzad Awan who, according to them, was being pressured to quit the PTI, The News reported. It was also claimed that his trucks were burned after he refused to do so.

This crackdown - which has thrown the PTI into a deep existential crisis with dozens of key party leaders jumping ship every day - was launched after the party leaders and workers allegedly vandalised and set afire state and army properties in the wake of Khan's arrest on May 9, The Express Tribune reported.

The assassination attempt on him last November was "strongly condemned" by the Joe Biden administration, as it should have been, but his subsequent troubles that have followed in a steady stream have elicited little or no concern about him personally, as a former Prime Minister or a politician.

However, with Imran Khan and his government falling apart after the establishment shut the door on him, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief is now getting a taste of one of the most bitter outbursts of his counter-assault on the same military might, turning his love affairs into arch rivalry with the country's most powerful institution.

She was referring to the several audio leaks -- including the one allegedly involving the Chief Justice of Pakistan's (CJP) mother-in-law -- whose cases were to be heard by a commission led by a senior Supreme Court judge and two Chief Justices of high courts, The News reported.

This claim was certainly not made for the first time by Maryam and her party leaders, but this time around, keeping in view the mass exodus (voluntary or otherwise) by the senior PTI leadership in the aftermath of May 9 riots, odds were truly stacked against Imran as he seems to be fighting a losing battle, The Express Tribune.

During his address to industrialists and businessmen in Karachi, Prime Minister Sharif said that Pakistan has successfully met all the stringent conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), emphasising the government's commitment to completing the IMF programme, Samaa TV reported.