A Pakistani court on Thursday indicted imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan and dozens of his associates on charges of inciting people to attack military and government installations last year, officials and his party said.
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan, right, and Bushra Bibi, his wife, speak to the media in Lahore, Pakistan on July 17, 2023.
Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote in April 2022 but has remained the leading opposition figure, and has since then been embroiled in more than 150 criminal cases that his party says are politically motivated. Khan’s wife, Bushra Bibi, who was leading the protest to demand her husband’s release fled the scene on Nov. 26 after officers launched their operation and has not been publicly seen since then. Police say she is hiding in the northwestern city of Peshawar, the capital of restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where Khan’s party is in power.Meanwhile, security forces in a pair of raids killed eight militants in the country's restive northwest on Thursday, the military said in a statement.
Eating at least five tiny servings of dark chocolate each week may lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 21 per cent, according to a new observational study. In fact, as dark chocolate consumption increased from none to five servings, so did the benefits, the study found.Known across the globe as the stuck astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams hit the six-month mark in space Thursday with two more to go.
Temperatures will climb back above the freezing mark in Edmonton and across all of the western half of the province.Treaty No. 6 First Nations Grand Chief Cody Thomas says the removal of the Treaty 6 flag in municipalities is a “mistake” and a “step backwards” for reconciliation.Edmonton police on Wednesday released the name and photo of a man wanted across the country for his alleged role in the 2023 shooting at West Edmonton Mall.
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