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PML-N nominates president Shahbaz Sharif's son, Hamza Shahbaz as Punjab chief minister, Nawaz Sharif's camp not in favour
• 7 years agoThe Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has nominated its president Shahbaz Sharif's son, Hamza Shahbaz, as Punjab chief minister even as the jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's camp is critical of the nomination.
Pakistan General Elections 2018: Imran Khan's PTI close to becoming single largest party but rigging charges persist
• 7 years agoThe PML-N and the PPP, both raised questions on the transparency of the vote counting process in Pakistan election, alleging their polling agents were not allowed to verify vote counts as is mandated by law
Pakistan Election Results 2018 updates: 5 parties allege poll rigging as PTI emerges in lead; Imran Khan's party says open to recounting
Fp Staff • 7 years agoPakistan's Samaa TV reported that there are problems with the Result Transmission System of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA).
'Poor first impressions of polling day': Human Rights Commission of Pakistan issues statement on the general elections
Fp Staff • 7 years agoThe following is the full text of a press release issued by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan during the counting of votes in the Pakistan general elections.
Pakistan Election Results 2018: Imran's outsider persona, intimacy with army perfectly sums up country's paradoxes
Kartik Maini • 7 years agoImran Khan shows himself to be emblematic of Pakistan’s paradoxes; in promising to usher Pakistan into a democracy of fresh incarnation, he is delivering it into devastating continuity.
Pakistan Election 2018: Heartbreaking to see citizens repose so much faith in a moth-eaten democratic process
Sreemoy Talukdar • 7 years agoWhile the need for keeping up the pretense of a constitutional democracy has deepened, the fledgling political process, weak institutions and fragile civil administrations are nowhere close to challenge the hegemony of the military. For the foreseeable future, democracy in Pakistan will remain a virtual reality.
Pakistan General Election 2018: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa goes to polls under pall of violence, rallies see low turnout
Abdur_rauf_yousafzai • 7 years agoKhyber Pakhtunkhwa, the third largest province of the country, is home to 15.32 million registered voters (25 percent higher than 2013).
Pakistan polls: Imran Khan's poll rhetorics may help PTI gain new ground, but in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, second chance is unlikely
Abdur_rauf_yousafzai • 7 years agoImran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf failed to fulfill the promises it made to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2013 elections, and that could hurt its prospects on 25 July since Pashtuns have a notion to not give a second chance to a party that doesn't perform
Pakistan polls: Analysts predict tough competition between Nawaz Sharif's PML-N and Imran Khan's PTI ahead of 25 July election
• 7 years agoWith elections just around the corner in Pakistan, analysts in Islamabad believe that the real competition in the 25 July polls could be between jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's PML-N and Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.
Pakistan election: 133 killed, 200 injured in twin blasts targeting poll rallies; BAP leader Siraj Raisani succumbs to wounds
• 7 years agoExplosion is Pakistan's election rally claimed 133 lives and injured 200 others. Balochistan Awami Party leader Siraj Raisani succumbed to his injuries later