Alvi says use of EVMs could’ve averted election uncertainty
Taking to microblogging platform “X” (formerly Twitter), President of Pakistan and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader, Dr Arif Alvi, on Saturday lamented the absence of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during the recent elections, stating that their implementation could have averted the current crisis. President Alvi reminisced about the prolonged struggle for EVMs, emphasising their capability to […]
Fractious poll fertile ground for disinformation
ISLAMABAD: Fake boycotts and fictional ballots: a deluge of disinformation accompanied Pakistan’s contentious election, with a delayed vote count underway on Friday. Pakistan’s poll is the most fraught of recent years, with ex-prime minister Imran Khan jailed and his arch-rival Nawaz Sharif appearing to be the favourite of the powerful military-led establishment. Early results show […]
Bilawal challenges ‘myth’ about PML-N performance
KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari challenged the “myth” that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) government fared better than his party’s government in Sindh, expressing the hope that the people would vote for “real” performance. Bilawal, who is contesting on three National Assembly constituencies from Larkana, Shahdadkot and Lahore, said in a […]
PM assures peaceful conduct of polls
ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Tuesday said that despite numerous challenges, the best possible arrangements had been made to ensure peaceful and seamless conduct of elections on polling day, across the country. He was talking to a delegation of the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG), led by former President of Nigeria Goodluck Ebele […]
Election campaign culminates today
ISLAMABAD: In anticipation of the upcoming general elections scheduled for Thursday, February 8, Tuesday (today) marks the culmination of an intense campaign period as political parties and candidates make their final push to sway voters. As per the election schedule, the political parties and candidates are required to wrap up their campaigns by midnight tonight. […]
‘Pani Do, Vote Lo’ campaign gains momentum
PESHAWAR: Every five years, parties and politicians religiously tour districts across the country, making insincere promises and chanting platitudinous slogans only to retreat into a state of outright oblivion just days after the wrap up of the elections. Given this observable trend, locals in the underdeveloped areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), dealing with unending water shortages, […]
ECP dispels false fatwa against women voting
ISLAMABAD: Responding to reports of a purported fatwa (Islamic decree) barring women from voting in Kohistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) debunked the claim on Monday, asserting its commitment to combat any restrictions on women’s participation in elections. However, the electoral body clarified that if any woman faced impediments in campaigning […]
Qureshi terms upcoming polls ‘mock elections’
RAWALPINDI: Former foreign minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Senior Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi has termed the upcoming polls “mock elections”, saying that the exercise is a waste of money “Democracy is being strangled and the Constitution is being mocked,” Qureshi said while talking to the media at the Adiala Jail on Saturday. The former minister […]
Imran among 145 Adiala inmates using postal ballots
RAWALPINDI: PTI founding chairman and deposed premier Imran Khan; vice chairman and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi; ex-Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, who is also the president of the party; and Awami Muslim League (AML) chief and former interior minister Sheikh Rashid are among the 145 inmates – incarcerated at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail […]
PML-Q bigwigs eye Gujrat seats
LAHORE: The PML-Q has issued tickets to 75 candidates for contesting the general elections on Feb 8 from the national and provincial assemblies. According to the break-up, 18 candidates, including bigwigs Chaudhry Salik Hussain, Chaudhry Hussain Elahi, Chaudhry Musa Elahi as well as Tariq Bashir Cheema, will vie for the National Assembly seats while 57 […]