DHAKA: Bangladesh´s one-day international captain Mashrafe Mortaza will stand in next month´s election, the ruling party announced Monday, after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina endorsed the superstar´s foray into politics. A photograph of…
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Khursheed Shah on Thursday said that the government has accepted the demand made by the opposition parties and agreed to include senators in the parliamentary committee…
VLADIVOSTOK: Hundreds of Russian Communist Party supporters took to the central square of Vladivostok on Monday to protest against what they said was the rigging of a regional election in favour of…
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has extended the date of registration for overseas Pakistani voters from September 15 to September 17. According to an official of the ECP, overseas Pakistanis have…
LAHORE: An application has been submitted to the Lahore High Court (LHC) seeking to expedite the hearing of a case against Imran Khan’s election as prime minister of the country. The application…
ISLAMABAD: With the opposition parties in the National Assembly crying foul over the alleged irregularities in the July 25 elections, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Saturday said that all the…
Analyst says family-centered politics, resentment among people led to JUI-F chief’s defeat ISLAMABAD: Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) President Maulana Fazlur Rehman is reportedly reluctant over trying his luck in Bannu by-poll again as…
Imran spent less than Rs1m, Shehbaz Rs2m on election campaign Following the directives by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to the candidates to submit the details of election expenditures, the commission…
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Wednesday said that the presidential election is likely to get delayed, as President Mamnoon Hussain completes his five-year tenure on Aug 8. It was…
ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Minister for Information and Broadcasting Syed Ali Zafar on Monday lauded the official media for comprehensive and professional coverage of the general election. Speaking to senior officials of the ministry…
ISLAMABAD: Citizens of newly merged areas of the Federally Administered Tribal area (FATA) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) have high hopes from the recently elected parliamentarians from the region and said that it…
ISLAMABAD: Interim Minister for Information and Broadcasting Barrister Syed Ali Zafar congratulated the nation and candidates of various political parties on a free, fair and transparent general election. In a message broadcast…
ISLAMABAD: As the results of July 25 polls were released by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), it was revealed that 4,674,545 votes were cast in favour of members of religious parties…
ISLAMABAD: The top guns of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) could not protect their home constituencies seats, putting a question mark on the interest-driven religious group’s future. The MMA was revived after around a decade…
ISLAMABAD: Only social media campaign continues despite the deadline of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to stop campaigning 48 hours before the election. According to ECP’s code of conduct, the election…
PHNOM PENH: A Cambodian government official on Thursday said as many as 220 observers from 52 countries would monitor Sunday’s general elections, widely expected to deliver a landslide victory for Prime Minister…
Health expert Dr Waseem Khawaja calls noise pollution injurious to public health ISLAMABAD: There is a dire need to bring reforms in the code of conduct for using public address system irrationally at…
