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  • Pak govt cancels diplomatic passports of nine PTI leaders

    Pak govt cancels diplomatic passports of nine PTI leaders

    ISLAMABAD: The government in Islamabad has cancelled the diplomatic passports of nine Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leaders.

    The PTI leaders are Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Asad Umar, Azam Swati, Pervaiz Khattak, Ali Amin Gandapur, Farrukh Habib, Aun Abbas, Zartaj Gul and Ali Muhammad Khan, Samaa TV reported.

    Moreover, the diplomatic passport of Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, an ally of the Imran Khan-led party, has also been suspended.

    The government has launched an intensive crackdown on the PTI, detaining several of its leaders and supporters over the violence and arson perpetrated on May 9 following the arrest of Khan.

    Since then, dozens of PTI leaders have quit the party, and politics altogether.

  • Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Sriperumbudur in TN cancelled

    Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Sriperumbudur in TN cancelled


    CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu unit Congress president, K.S. Alagiri, on Saturday said the scheduled visit of former INC chief Rahul Gandhi to Sriperumbudur to attend the death anniversary of his father Rajiv Gandhi on May 21 has been cancelled

    He said that the visit of the Gandhi scion was cancelled due to certain unavoidable circumstances. The Congress state president, however, said that all the other programmes that would be conducted at Sriperumbudur would continue as planned.

    “The death anniversary function of the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi will be conducted as planned earlier. Rahul Gandhi cannot attend the programme on May 21 due to certain unavoidable circumstances. However, all leaders of Tamil Nadu Congress including myself and party legislative party leader, Selvaperuthungai will attend various functions,” Alagiri told IANS.

    Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991, while he was on an election tour to Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu.

    -IANS