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ISLAMABAD: After more than a month of lacklustre election campaigns, a large number of voters in Islamabad and Rawalpindi headed to their respective polling stations to poll votes despite a communication outage and alleged discrepancies in the allotment of polling stations. Although the turnout was said to be satisfactory, the election festivity and the associated hustle and bustle were missing …

KARACHI: The expected recriminations of rigging by political parties started within the initial hours of voting on Thursday, with multiple videos of “malpractice” also flooding social media. The PPP claimed that ballot papers were snatched from the electoral staff in the PS-105 (Karachi East-IX) constituency. The JI alleged that MQM-P workers sabotaged the voting process across multiple polling stations. Videos …

D.I. KHAN / PESHAWAR / ISLAMABAD / QUETTA / GWADAR: At least nine people were killed and more than a dozen others injured in almost two dozen incidents of violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district and multiple districts of Balochistan on Thursday. Five police personnel were martyred and two others sustained injuries when an improvised explosive device (IED) …

ISLAMABAD: The car­e­taker government suspended mobile phone and data services nationwide on Thursday for election day, despite Pakistan Tele­co­mmunication Auth­o­rity’s earlier assurances of uninterrupted internet access. Services had still not been restored in vast swathes of the country at the time of going to print. However, landline internet and social media websites did not face disruptions. The interior ministry said …

All of Pakistan has its eyes on only one thing: the election 2024 result board where arch rivals PML-N and PTI with its independent candidates are battling it out, with PPP a close third (as of 4pm, Feb 9). While clarity has to emerge on how the possibly historic government will be formed, here Dawn.com has rounded up some of the key …

ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI: On the eve of the general elections, the security in Islamabad and Rawalpindi was further increased to counter any untoward incidents, with additional police officials deployed at entry and exit points of the twin cities. In Islamabad, the threat alert level rose to ‘amber’ on Wednesday, the police said. Their spokesperson added there were five types of security alerts: …

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has expedited probe against Ghauri Town – the largest illegal housing society in the capital – and has approached the Capital Development Authority (CDA) for details in this regard. Through a letter, NAB sought details from the relevant CDA officials who failed to stop the unauthorised growth of the housing scheme. The letter dated …

LAHORE: Pakistan is witnessing a surge in online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as it has been among the top three countries in the world in recent years regarding the number of reports on such material online that leads to the rise in the number of child abuse cases in the country. According to the data of the National Center …

QUETTA: On the eve of elections, violence engulfed Pakistan’s largest province Balochistan as two powerful bomb blasts outside the offices of election candidates in Pishin and Qilla Saifullah — a district bordering Afghanistan — claimed 28 lives and injured over 50 people within a span of two hours. These two explosions were in addition to at least half a dozen …

KARACHI: The Forei­­gn Office has responded to the UN’s concerns over terrorist attacks targeting election campaigns and the participation of wom­en in the electoral process. The reply came a day after the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights voiced concerns over terrorist atta­cks and the violation of the law requiring political parties to award five per cent of tickets …