To vote is religious obligation, says joint fatwa of Pakistan Ulema
ISLAMABAD: To vote is the right of every citizen and obligation upon every Muslim and those restraining women from this duty are landlords, not Islam....
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‘MQM candidates being targeted during election campaign’
KARACHI: “The election campaign of MQM is being seriously hampered with the unabated targeted killings of its candidates.”...
Next election will not be fair in Pakistan: Farooq Sattar
by TNT Desk
KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Farooq Sattar has said that the prevailing terrorist activities going on in different parts of Karachi indicating that the upcoming...
Election 2013: Results, Candidates and Party Poisition in KPK
by TNT Desk
ISLAMABAD: General Election will be held in Pakistan on May 11, 2013. Here is the detail of national assembly seats, candidates with party affiliations. TheNewsTribe will...
Draft prepared to legalise voting for overseas Pakistanis: Habib
by Mirza Hassan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Malik Habib has said that the draft to legalise the voting rights to overseas Pakistanis has been prepared....
Nation to celebrate independence on May 11: Imran Khan
by Nasir Khan
MALAKAND: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that he would not allow anyone to fix the election. He said that the nation would...
Blind man made presiding officer, removed from position
LAHORE: A presiding officer was removed from his position after it came on surface that he was visually impaired, here on Monday....
Transgender candidates stake claim in Pakistan vote
by AFP
SUKKUR, Pakistan: Stereotyped as dancers, beggars and prostitutes, Pakistan’s vibrant but shunned transgender community is striking out into politics with individuals contesting elections for the...
Former MPA Khalifa Abdul Qayyum allowed to contesting polls
by Noman Fida
PESHAWAR: Former member of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, Khalifa Abdul Qayyum has been allowed to contest in forthcoming general elections....
Pakistan blocks Pervez Musharraf from contesting election
by AFP
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was on Tuesday barred from running for parliament, officials said, just a day after he unveiled his party...