pakistan election

Pakistan elections 2024 | Imran Khan’s PTI says winning independent candidates will join Sunni Ittehad Council

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Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan. File | Photo Credit: AP PTI-backed independent candidates won the maximum number of seats in the recently concluded Pakistan election Reversing its earlier decision, jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on February 19 said that the party-backed independent candidates, who won the February 8 elections, will join … Read more

Pakistan’s CEC, Chief Justice involved in poll-rigging, alleges senior bureaucrat as he resigns

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Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha speaks at a press conference in Rawalpindi on February 17, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP A senior Pakistani bureaucrat has stirred a hornet’s nest by alleging widespread rigging aided by the judiciary and top election body in last week’s poll against jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party. As Rawalpindi … Read more

PML-N & PPP set to discuss power-sharing deal for coalition government: Report

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Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party Shehbaz Sharif (C) speaks during a press conference in Lahore on February 13, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP A second round of talks between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan Peoples Party is expected to take place on February 16 on … Read more

The Hindu Morning Digest, February 12, 2024

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Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar arrives to attend the Janata Dal (United) (JD-U) Legislators meeting, in Patna. | Photo Credit: ANI India welcomes release of eight Navy veterans jailed in Qatar India on February 12 welcomed the release of eight Indian nationals who were arrested in Qatar on August 30, 2022 and were given death sentence … Read more

Watch | Pakistan elections | A new dawn or more of the same?

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Pakistan prepares for political chaos as election results suggest a surge in favour of Imran Khan’s candidates- but with no clear winner yet, can the man seen as the military’s choice- Nawaz Sharif still forge a government? Results are trickling in from Pakistan’s election nearly 24 hours later- which itself is news, as normally results … Read more

As Pakistan goes to elections, farmers want climate change action, not words

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Tending to his wilting wheat crop after months of drought and smog, Pakistani farmer Aamer Hayat Bhandara said his biggest hope for the general election is that whoever wins makes good on a flurry of campaign promises to tackle climate change. Pakistan goes to polls on February 8. The two frontrunners – the Pakistan Muslim … Read more

At least 10 killed in attack on police station in Pakistan 

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“At least 10 police personnel were killed and six others injured in a pre-dawn attack on February 5 by militants at a police station in northwest Pakistan,” police said, as violence escalated ahead of general elections this week. “At around 3 a.m. local time (2200 GMT Sunday) militants attacked the police station with sniper fire … Read more