The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that re-election for the Punjab chief minister’s slot will be held on July 22 after the rival parties — PML-N, PML-Q and PTI — reached consensus on the matter. A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan. However, both Punjab Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz and Punjab Assembly Speaker […]
According to a sequence of tweets from Alexey Navalny’s team on Friday; a voting software developed by allies of the renowned Kremlin critic was pulled from Google and Apple’s online stores in Russia just as polls opened for parliamentary elections. As part of his campaign to keep the imprisoned dissident company; Ivan Zhdanov shared an […]
In unusual support of a Canadian politician by a former American president, Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. This is Obama’s second time doing it. Obama also urged Canadians to keep Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader in the country’s upcoming general election in 2019. After Trudeau’s election, Obama expressed his admiration […]
The successful new members of the Senate will take oath on March 12, the Secretariat has announced here on Thursday. The occupancy of the former and retiring senators will end on March 11. However, the oath-taking ceremony will take place on March 12 in the morning. While the election for the Senate chairman and deputy chairman […]
KARACHI: Sindh Government has announced a public holiday on February 16; in Sanghar and Malir district to facilitate voters in by-elections. According to a notification issued by the Sindh government on Friday, 16 February will be a public holiday in constituencies; PS-43-Sanghar-III and PS-88 Malir-II, on account of by-polls to facilitate the voters to cast […]
An alliance of political parties in Indian-administered Kashmir opposed to India’s policies in the region has won a majority of seats in local elections; the first since New Delhi revoked the disputed region’s semi-autonomous status last year. The Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), which is pro-India but favors self-governance in Kashmir, won 112 of […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday while daring the opposition parties on immediate resignations, predicted that the majority of their members of National and provincial assemblies would not tender resignations. “I invite them to resign today instead of tomorrow. I am predicting that the majority of them [members of assemblies] will not resign,” Imran Khan […]
Donald Trump has said he will leave the White House if Joe Biden is formally confirmed as the next US president. Answering reporters’ questions for the first time since losing the 3 November vote, Mr. Trump insisted, however, that “this race is far from over”. He has refused to concede, citing unsubstantiated claims of voter […]
United States President-elect Joe Biden has been formally given the go-ahead by a federal agency to begin his transition to the presidency, shortly after the battleground state of Michigan certified him as the winner there. With the rapid-fire developments on Monday, President Donald Trump’s already languishing efforts to overturn his November 3 defeat appeared to […]
As Americans vote in a bitterly contested election for a White House race between President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden, with millions of ballots still to count, the Foreign Office has said that Pakistan was looking forward to “working with anyone who wins”. “Pakistan looks forward to working with anyone who wins […]
