Pakistan Elections
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Pakistan Markazi Muslim League, face of 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed's, to participate in elections
World | Feb 05, 2024, 12:07 PM ISTSaeed, who has been incarcerated in a jail in Lahore, has been sentenced to a total of 31 years by Pakistan's anti-terrorism courts in several cases of financing terrorism.
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Pakistan: Ahead of polls, 10 cops killed as terrorists target police stattion in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
World | Feb 05, 2024, 05:08 PM ISTViolence has also escalated in the last few days in Pakistan as the South Asian nation approaches its national elections later this week.
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After Imran, Pakistan election commission disqualifies Qureshi from contesting polls for 5 years
World | Feb 04, 2024, 11:30 AM ISTThe development came with little more than a week left to Pakistan's February 8 elections, where Imran's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is contesting amid a state crackdown and without an electoral symbol.
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Pakistan's election commission on track for polls on February 8 despite security challenges
World | Feb 02, 2024, 01:53 PM ISTPakistan's chief election commissioner expressed concern over the worsening law and order situation, but stressed that the electoral watchdog was fully ready to hold elections on February 8. His statement came after at least three independent candidates were shot dead ahead of polls.
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Pakistan: Man kills son for hoisting flag of Imran Khan's party at home in Peshawar
World | Jan 24, 2024, 02:30 PM ISTThe man, who reportedly supported the Awami National Party, had an argument with his son over hoisting Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) flag and shot with a pistol. The son died on his way to the hospital and the police is still searching for the accused.
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Pakistan: Imran Khan nearly out of electoral race after Lahore HC rejects plea
World | Jan 18, 2024, 10:32 AM ISTImran Khan's nomination papers had been rejected primarily on the grounds of being convicted in the Toshakhana corruption case. With the Lahore High Court verdict, the only course of action left to the PTI founder is a decision by the Pakistan Supreme Court.
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Pakistan Election Commission warns of poll delay amid symbol dispute and ballot paper crunch
World | Jan 17, 2024, 04:40 PM ISTPakistan ECP's statement came in response to the requests made by political parties and candidates to change their electoral symbols and the applications pending before the higher courts.
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Pakistan's Imran Khan's party loses 'cricket bat' electoral symbol- a major blow ahead of polls
World | Jan 14, 2024, 01:14 PM ISTThe Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had challenged the verdict of the two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) which on Wednesday restored the cricket bat as the electoral symbol of the PTI party while validating its elections.
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Pakistan: Independent candidate shot dead in North Waziristan ahead of February 8 elections
World | Jan 11, 2024, 01:27 PM ISTThe candidate was identified as Kaleemullah Khan, who was supposed to contest from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's PK-104, according to police. Several politicians have come under attack in the run-up to the general elections scheduled on February 8.
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Pakistan: Hindu candidate Saveera Parkash vows to build better ties with India ahead of elections
World | Jan 03, 2024, 07:26 AM ISTThe 25-year-old Parkash's nomination is historic as she is the first Hindu to contest the upcoming Pakistan general elections in the relatively conservative province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Parkash said that if elected, she will help the problems of Hindus living in Pakistan and 'across the border'.
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Mainstreaming of radical terrorist outfits not new in Pakistan, says India
World | Dec 29, 2023, 05:11 PM ISTHafiz Saeed has been in jail since 2019 after being convicted for several years in multiple terror finance cases. The Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML), considered to be backed by the terrorist, is now fielding candidates for the upcoming elections, including his son Talha.
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Pakistan elections 2024: Hindu Woman Contesting Elections In Pakistan | Who Is Saveera Parkash?
News | Dec 27, 2023, 11:29 AM ISTPakistan elections 2024: Among the 3,139 women candidates, 25-year-old Dr Saveera Parkash was the only Hindu and reportedly the first one to file the nomination paper in the Muslim-dominated country. Check out the video to know who is she?
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Pakistan: Who is Saveera Parkash, first Hindu woman to contest for National Assembly elections
World | Dec 26, 2023, 11:46 AM ISTParkash will contest polls on a Pakistan People's Party (PPP) ticket, the second-largest party in the Senate. The party is currently headed by Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari who had visited Goa for the G20 Summit this year.
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Pakistan: Party backed by 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed, and his son to contest in upcoming elections
World | Dec 25, 2023, 04:59 PM ISTThe Pakistan media report also claimed that Hafiz's son Talha Saeed is also in the run. The media report claimed that Talha is contesting from the National Assembly’s constituency NA-127, Lahore.
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Pakistan: Bilawal Bhutto fielded as PM candidate by his party, Asif Zardari as presidential nominee
World | Dec 15, 2023, 12:03 AM ISTAsif Ali Zardari, 68, served as the President of Pakistan after the elections held in 2008 till 2013, while his son Bilawal, 35, served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from April 2022 to August 2023. Pakistan will go to polls on February 8, with Nawaz Sharif returning to the fray.
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'Vajpayee and Modi sahab came to Pakistan in my tenure. We must improve ties...': Nawaz I VIDEO
World | Dec 10, 2023, 11:30 AM ISTThe Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supreme leader, Nawaz said that on all three occasions being the premier he was improving ties with India but he was sent packing and that he did not know why.
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Pakistan: Roadside bomb kills 3 in insurgency-hit Balochistan province, no one claims responsibility
World | Nov 19, 2023, 07:15 PM ISTNo group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast but suspicion falls on Baloch nationalists turned separatist groups who have been involved in low-level insurgency for over two decades in the gas and mineral-rich province.
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Pakistan's economy continues to remain fragile, energy prices will be raised before elections: FM
World | Nov 17, 2023, 12:50 PM ISTPakistan's caretaker Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar outlined key aspects of the IMF agreement, affirming the government’s commitment to regular tariff adjustments, including a planned gas price hike in January to prevent the accumulation of circular debt in both the gas and power sectors.
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Pakistan's ex-PM Imran Khan's wife Bushra Bibi likely to be arrested in corruption case: Report
World | Nov 11, 2023, 06:38 PM ISTAccording to a local media report, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) is cross-checking certain pieces of “evidence” pertaining to some financial transactions that Bushra Bibi allegedly received.
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Pakistan govt suspends former PM Nawaz Sharif’s sentence in Al-Azizia reference: Report
World | Oct 24, 2023, 05:16 PM ISTEarlier in 2018, the accountability court had awarded a 10-year jail term to Nawaz Sharif in the Avenfield case and a seven-year sentence in the Al-Azizia reference. Besides, the court had also disqualified him from holding public office for the next ten years.