QUETTA: Caretaker Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Ali Mardan Khan Domki has said that the interim set-up worked with diligence to ensure good governance and fulfilled its responsibilities assigned for the execution of daily official affairs along with the mandate of conducting transparent and impartial elections in the province. The CM, while addressing a dinner hosted…
KARACHI: Newly elected lawmakers took their oath on Saturday during the inaugural session of the Sindh Assembly amid protests by opposition parties near the provincial legislature’s premises. Agha Siraj Durrani took the speaker’s oath in Sindhi before administering the oath to the newly elected members of the provincial legislature. Durrani then administered the oath to…
ISLAMABAD: Shortly before PTI founding chairman Imran Khan revealed having written a letter to the IMF on Friday, asking it to make its next loan programme conditional to Pakistan conducting an audit of the February 8 general elections, party leader Senator Barrister Ali Zafar clarified that the country should continue to engage with the IMF. Senator Zafar…
ISLAMABAD: Shortly before PTI founding chairman Imran Khan revealed having written a letter to the IMF on Friday, asking it to make its next loan programme conditional to Pakistan conducting an audit of the February 8 general elections, party leader Senator Barrister Ali Zafar clarified that the country should continue to engage with the IMF. Senator Zafar…
LAHORE/KARACHI: The country entered the government formation phase on Thursday, transitioning from the electoral period. Assembly sessions were called in Punjab and Sindh by their governors, and a summary was forwarded to the president to convene the National Assembly session next week. The Punjab Assembly will convene on Friday (today), marking the first legislature session…
RAWALPINDI: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) released a statement on Saturday denying the allegations made by Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chatta, against the chief election commissioner and the ECP. “No official from the ECP issued any instructions to the commissioner Rawalpindi to manipulate election results,” it said in a statement soon after the commissioner’s…
WASHINGTON: The United States is concerned about reports of intimidation and voter suppression in Pakistan’s election, the White House said on Thursday after reports of protests in some parts of the country. Pakistan’s election last week did not return a clear majority for anyone but independent candidates backed by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan…
PTI claimed on Friday that 85 National Assembly seats that the party won in the February 8 polls were “snatched” and termed the alleged rigging as the “largest assault on democracy” in Pakistan. The party, addressing the media in Islamabad, claimed that the total number of seats on which PTI-backed independents emerged victorious was 179,…
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb stated on Friday that former premier Imran Khan inviting the US to interfere in the country’s elections goes against Pakistan’s sovereignty. Addressing a press conference along with party leader Ataullah Tarar, she questioned where Imran’s slogan of “Absolutely Not. We are not slaves” went when he urged the US to…
ISLAMABAD: A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court will hear a petition seeking to declare the February 8 general elections null and void on Monday. Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa, will head the bench which will include Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Justice Mussarat Hilali. The petition has made the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the federal…
