LAHORE: The PML-N has finally announced launching of its election campaign across the country from Jan 15, the day it is going to put out its manifesto. The party’s announcement came on Wednesday when PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari in Lahore taunted the Sharifs for their failure to launch polls campaign and field its candidates. “The PML-N will launch the election campaign in …
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Aamer Farooq on Wednesday summoned the joint secretaries of the ministries of defence and interior in connection with the ‘disappearance’ of a PTI candidate. Justice Farooq had directed the government agencies on Tuesday to produce Barrister Abdullah Mumtaz Kahloon, who had reportedly “disappeared” from Islamabad airport. Mr Kahloon had filed his nomination papers to …
ISLAMABAD: Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, the former Punjab Chief Minister of Punjab and President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has been transferred from Adiala Jail to the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology (RIC) following complaints of heart-related pain and health deterioration. The sources in the prison department said that Chaudhry Parvez Elahi is also suffering from a chest infection. He underwent a medical …
PESHAWAR: Top leaders of the mainstream political parties, including Nawaz Sharif of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, Sirajul Haq of the Jamaat-i-Islami, Maulana Fazlur Rehman of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl and Gohar Ali Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, on Friday filed nomination papers for contesting the Feb 8 general elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the National Assembly seats. The papers for Mr …
GUJRAT: The wife of Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf (PTI) president and former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, Ms Qaisera Elahi and her sister Sumaira Elahi were not allowed to file their nomination papers here on Friday, as the police deployed at the office of returning officer (RO) for NA-64 did not let them to enter the premises. Party sources said …
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday decided against letting the PTI retain its ‘bat’ electoral symbol for the February 8 general election. The reserved verdict was announced a day after the Peshawar High Court (PHC) directed the electoral watchdog to decide on PTI’s intra-party polls and electoral symbol by today in “accordance with the law”. The development also came …
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday approved the post-arrest bail of former prime minister Imran Khan and ex-foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, both of whom are incarcerated at Adiala Jail, in the cipher case. The top court also directed the PTI leaders to submit surety bonds worth Rs1 million each. The order was issued by a three-member bench headed …
HYDERABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has said that hyper-polarisation in the country must end. He also called for owning cultural diversity, history and different languages spoken in the country, saying that no country could progress as long as its poets, artists and culture were not given ownership. He was delivering his inaugural speech at the 9th Sheikh …
ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Friday extended its deadline for filing nomination papers for the February 8 general elections by two days but asserted that the extension would not affect the poll date. With little than over a month left for polls, the electoral watchdog has entered election mode. Last week, the commission issued the election schedule, putting …
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday instructed the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to remove the PTI’s reservations regarding a lack of a level playing field in the run up to the February 8 general election. The top court directed the PTI to submit its complaint with the ECP at 3pm today and ordered Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP) Mansoor …