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Pakistan byelections: Polling underway for 21 vacant seats under strict se
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The voting for by-elections in Pakistan is underway for twenty-one vacant seats of National and Provincial Assemblies amid strict security on Sunday, ARY News reported.
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Pak by-polls: Election Commission instructs security personnel to ensure p
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has called for the deployment of security personnel in by-elections, with the exception of armed forces in order to maintain law and order in the provinces of the country, especially throughout the counting process, according to ARY News.
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Nawaz Sharif used Faizabad sit-in against institutions, claims Sunni Itteh
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The chairman of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), Sahibzada Hamid Raza, has asserted that the current prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Nawaz Sharif, utilised the Faizabad sit-in to protest against state institutions, according to ARY News
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Pakistan: Arrest warrant issued against Gilgit-Baltistan's former CM in fa
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
In a case involving a fake degree, a senior Civil Judge has issued an arrest warrant for Khalid Khurshid Khan, the former chief minister (CM) of Gilgit-Baltistan, reported ARY News.
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Pakistan: PTI, JUI-F 'agree on increasing contacts' amid calls for movemen
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Amid calls for movement against rigging in country's elections, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) agree on increasing contacts with each others' political parties, reported Geo News.
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PML-N dissidents set to join former Pak PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's party
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
After Eidul Fitr, Zaeem Qadri, a former leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N), is set to join Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's political party, ARY News reported, citing sources, on Tuesday.
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf seeks intra-party election certificate from Elect
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) sought the certificate of its intra-party election from the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday, according to ARY News.
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Pakistan: Senate to elect new chairman, deputy chairman today
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
The upper house of Parliament, will convene on Tuesday at 9 am to swear in newly elected members and elect the chairman and deputy chairman, according to a circular released by the Senate Secretariat, reported ARY News.
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Pakistan: Former PM Shahid Abbasi approaches Election Commission to regist
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has approached the country's top poll body to register new political party, ARY News reported on Monday.
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Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Latif Khosa hopes Imran Khan will 'walk fr
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Sardar Latif Khosa has said that party founder Imran Khan will walk free from jail in April, reported ARY News.
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'Nontoxic arsenic' powder found in letters sent to judges in Pakistan: Rep
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Notably, at least 10 judges of the Supreme Court including Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, eight judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) and five of the Lahore High Court (LHC) have received the suspicious letters.
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SIC moves Pak poll body to postpone Senate chairman, deputy chairman elect
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
On behalf of the SIC, attorney Hamid Khan filed the plea requesting that the ECP call an early election to fill 11 Senate seats in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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