Islamabad , December 25: Pakistan Markazi Muslim League (PMML), a political entity of the 26/11 terror attacks mastermind and founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, has fielded candidates for each and every national and provincial assembly constituency across Pakistan for the upcoming general elections slated to be held on...
Islamabad , December 25: The Pakistan Election Commission (ECP) received a total of 28,626 nomination papers from candidates who showed interest in contesting the upcoming general elections scheduled for February 8, 2024.
It reported that 7,242 men and 471 women filed nomination papers for national assembly seats, whereas for provincial...
Islamabad , December 25: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday announced that it will challenge the Election Commission of Pakistan's decision to declare its intra-party polls as unconstitutional and revoke the 'bat' symbol in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday.
The decision of the PTI comes after the electoral...
Islamabad , December 16: An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan's Quetta remanded fashion designer Khadija Shah in police custody for another seven days, Pakistan-based Dawn reported. She was presented before Judge Sadat Bazai again after the expiry of her three-day police remand on Friday.
Earlier, the district attorney sought a 14-day...
Rawalpindi , December 16: Pakistan's former federal minister, Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan, announced that he will contest the upcoming general elections as an independent candidate, saying that the country's dignity has been lost due to political leaders and rulers.
In February, Mehtab stepped down as a senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz...
Karachi , December 16: Karachi city police chief Khadim Rind informed the provincial interim government that they would need PKR 100 million for election-related expenses and over 20,000 personnel to overcome the shortage.
It reported quoting a city police spokesperson, that in a meeting held to review arrangements for the...
Islamabad, Dec 14: Taliban officials are sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence.
Before the Taliban seized power in 2021, there were 23 state-sponsored women protection centers in Afghanistan where survivors of gender-based violence could seek refuge. Now there are none, the UN report said.
Officials from...
Lahore, Dec 14: A top Pakistani court has suspended the election commission's decision to appoint bureaucrats as Returning Officers (ROs) for the February 8 general elections, prompting a war of words between political parties, with two of them terming it as a "conspiracy" to postpone the polls.
Lahore High Court...
Islamabad , December 12: In yet another major victory for the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), the Islamabad High Court (IHC) acquitted PML-N Supremo Nawaz Sharif in the Al-Azizia case on Tuesday.
The verdict was announced by a two-judge bench comprised of IHC Chief Justice (CJ) Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul...
Islamabad , December 12: The Supreme Court of Pakistan adjourned the hearing of a longstanding presidential reference on Tuesday, which seeks to re-examine the controversial 1979 death sentence handed down to former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
A nine-member larger bench of the apex court, led by Chief Justice of...
