LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: The Punjab Police continued to use force in dealing with PTI protests across the province on Sunday, as many party workers were beaten up and a number of key leaders arrested during demonstrations against alleged electoral rigging. The rallies and protests were held in major cities across the country on the call of PTI’s incarcerated founder, Imran Khan. The agitation was …
By Mian Abrar Starting with the premise that sexual violence in war is not uncommon, we all need to acknowledge that it happens, it’s abhorrent and must be punished when it occurs. October 7th was no different, if sexual violence occurred, there is every reason to seek the perpetrators and punish them but what’s happened as a result of that …
ISLAMABAD: Despite the litany of challenges being filed in courts across the country against the Feb 8 general election results, caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar believes the nation has “accepted the results”. While addressing a press conference at the Prime Minister’s House on Monday, Mr Kakar responded to the allegations of rigging and defended the Election Commission of Pakistan …
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday summoned caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on February 19 over the failure to recover allegedly missing Baloch students. The directive was issued as IHC’s Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani resumed hearing a petition regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances. The commission was established in …
LAHORE: PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday that his party will “gladly sit in the opposition benches” if independent candidates were able to form a government. The remarks come days after PTI leader Barrister Gohar Ali Khan said his party was firmly against reaching out to either the PML-N or PPP for a possible alliance following PTI-backed candidates coming out on …
RAWALPINDI/ISLAMABAD: As the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) took to the streets in the twin cities on Sunday against the alleged rigging in the Feb 8 polls, the Rawalpindi police used teargas and batons to disperse PTI-backed candidates and supporters who had gathered outside the office of the District Election Commissioner near Chandni Chowk. Police also detained a number of PTI supporters, …
BAHAWALPUR: A number of defeated National Assembly (NA) candidates belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and other parties have applied for recounting of votes to their respective returning officers (ROs) in Bahawalpur, Multan and Vehari districts, in their respective constituencies. In NA-168 (Tehsil Ahmedpur East), PTI’s Ms Shozeb Kanwal, independent candidate Nawab Bahawal Abbas Abbasi and PPP’s Makhdum Ali Hassan …
LAHORE: A delegation of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) led by Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui called on Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif here on Sunday and discussed modality for cooperation in the future federal set-up. PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb claimed that both sides agreed in principle on working together in the larger national interest. She said that agreement had …
ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar has expressed his best wishes and prayed for political and economic stability of Pakistan, adding that he anticipated a coalition government, but it was up to the political parties to negotiate. He said voters exercised their constitutional rights in the general elections, and by and large, “they voted for their favorite candidates despite …
ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi on Saturday stressed digitalising the voting process and, without naming any person or authority, said that the country could have been saved from the current election results controversy if the EVMs had been in place. “Remember ‘our’ long struggle for Electronic Voting Machines. EVM had paper ballots that could be counted separately by hand (like it …