Pakistan

QUETTA: The sit-ins by an alliance of four nationalist parties across Balochistan continued on Friday against the alle­ged rigging in the Febru­ary 8 general elections. The protest has been continuing for over two weeks in different parts of Balochistan including the provincial capital, Quetta. Supporters of the four-party alliance continued the sit-in outside the office of the Quetta district returning …

LAHORE: An MQM-P delegation called on PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif here on Friday and discussed a power-sharing formula with him. The delegation from Kara­chi comprised Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori, Farooq Sattar and Mustafa Kamal. The MQM-P reportedly came to meet Mr Sharif, who is the candidate of six parties for the post of the prime minister, to get his assurance that the …

KARACHI: The Pakis­tan Peoples Party (PPP) on Friday named Syed Murad Ali Shah for the post of chief minister of Sindh with party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari directing the MPAs-elect to be “hard on corruption” and “engage with opposition parties”. The call for the incoming PPP government to be tough on corruption apparently came because of serious accusations of corruption hurled …

Amid protests and arrests, newly elected representatives were sworn into the 16th Sindh Assembly on Saturday. The Sindh Assembly was the second to have its lawmakers take oath after the February 8 general elections, with at least 313 MPAs being elected to the Punjab Assembly a day ago. According to the results issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan, the PPP is …

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ISLAMABAD: PTI founding chairman Imran Khan will write to the IMF urging it to call for an independent audit of the Feb 8 general elections before it continues talks with Islamabad, PTI leader Senator Ali Zafar disclosed on Thursday. The PTI has also decided to hold intra-party elections on March 3, with over six million party members allowed to cast their votes …

ISLAMABAD: The Federal Government Employees Housing Authority (FGEHA) has detected a massive financial embezzlement in its Park Road Housing Scheme allegedly due to forged payments against the work never carried out. According to sources, the contractor allegedly in connivance with the project director and others withdrew the mobilisation advance of Rs719 million on a fake bank guarantee, while there is …

ISLAMABAD: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl held a workers’ convention in the federal capital on Thursday, terming it the beginning of a countrywide protest movement against alleged rigging in the elections. Addressing the ‘Islam­abad general council’ of the JUI-F, party chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said the nation witnessed the worst rigging in the country’s history on Feb 8. He alleged that the 2024 polls …

LAHORE: Incarcerated PTI President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi on Thursday accused Caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi of robbing the people of their mandate in the Feb 8 election, predicting an accountability of his alleged crimes soon. “Mohsin Naqvi and his police are the real culprits behind stealing the mandate of the citizens,” Mr Elahi said in a brief conversation with the …

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to return the information centres on Trail 5 and Trail 6 and the animal sanctuary in the foothills of the Margalla Hills to Islamabad Wildlife Management Board (IWMB). Headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, a three member bench of the apex court took up …