Pakistan

LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) central Punjab secretary general Hammad Azhar and party leader Moonis Elahi have advised the civil servants to stay loyal to the Constitution and people of Pakistan by not becoming part of the post-poll rigging, warning them that the “delinquents” would be prosecuted against. Hammad demanded that the Punjab police inspector general should resign immediately, alleging that …

LAHORE: Former Indian diplomat and politician Mani Shankar Aiyar regards the people of Pakistan as the single biggest Indian asset in Pakistan. “The Pakistanis, from my experience, have been the people who react perhaps overreact to the other side. If we are friendly, they are overfriendly and if we are hostile, they get over hostile,” he stated during a session, …

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: There is a likelihood of PTI provincial president Sardar Ali Amin Khan Gandapur vacating the National Assembly seat he won along with the provincial one from here. He won Thursday’s general election in one National Assembly constituency (NA-44) and one provincial assembly constituency (PK-113) but he can keep one seat only. “We think Ali Amin [Gandapur] will …

KARACHI: Three independent candidates, who are members of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, have moved the Sindh High Court impugning the provisional results of the National Assembly seats from where they contested the Feb 8 general elections. Interned PTI’s provincial president Haleem Adil Sheikh contested the poll from NA-238 (Karachi-East), Arsalan Khalid from NA-248 (Karachi-Central) and Advocate Khalid Mehmood was in the …

KARACHI: Rangers have lodged a terrorism FIR against two Pakistan Peoples Party candidates for allegedly storming into a polling station in Gulshan-i-Maymar on Feb 8, attacking security personnel, holding polling staff hostage and extending them threats of dire consequences, police said on Saturday. A police officer, who wished not to be named, said that the case was registered against PPP …

KARACHI: Protests against ‘flawed and rigged’ election results intensified on Saturday when law enforcers fired tear gas at protesters and baton-charged them in the metropolis. A large number of Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) workers sustained injuries in the baton charge while many were briefly detained by police from the Numaish intersection and Nishtar Park. After the police action, the dispersed TLP …

ISLAMABAD: A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court to bind the elected independent candidates to join a political party within three days of the official notification of their victory. The petition has been filed two days after the general elections, the unofficial result of which shows PTI-backed independent candidates in clear majority in the National, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies …

ISLAMABAD: The Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) on Saturday noted that the delay in the preparation and announcement of preliminary election results overshadowed an otherwise orderly election, raising questions about the credibility of the election outcome. In its preliminary report on recently conducted general elections, Fafen also highlighted that the caretaker government’s suspension of cellular and internet services on election day, …

KARACHI: As political parties make their moves to secure alliances and assurances to form governments in the Centre and Punjab after the elections, Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir has said the nation needs “stable hands and a healing touch to move on from the politics of anarchy and polarisation”. In a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), …

LAHORE/KARACHI/ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR/GUJRAT: The courts were flooded with legal challenges on Saturday as candidates challenged the provisional results in their constituencies in a bid to turn the tide. A vast majority of those filing such challenges were PTI-backed independents, including high-profile politicians such as Parvez Elahi and his wife Qaisera, former KP finance minister Taimoor Jhagra and ex-KP speaker Mahmood Jan, Islamabad-based …