Pakistan and Bosnia on Wednesday signed two accords of cooperation, including memorandums of understanding on the return home of illegal Pakistani migrants and scientific cooperation, while the leaders of both countries also agreed to improve trade relations. The accords were signed at the Prime Minister’s House in Islamabad, where Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia & Herzegovina Sefik Dzaferovic arrived …

Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri on Tuesday said Pakistan looks forward to working with whoever wins the United States election — Republican President Donald Trump or Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. While speaking to Arab News, the FO spokesperson conveyed the country’s best wishes to Americans who voted in the record-setting election on Tuesday. He added that the election was an “internal matter” …

Republican Tony Gonzales, a Navy veteran, was leading Air Force veteran Gina Ortiz Jones early Wednesday in the race for the massive border district that Jones nearly won in 2018. The Democrat was running again after her narrow loss to Rep. Will Hurd, a San Antonio Republican who decided not to seek reelection. The 23rd has long been Texas’ only …

Arlington Rep. Ron Wright, a freshman Republican, defended his seat in Congress against Democrat Stephen Daniel, an attorney with ties to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. Health care was a prominent issue in the race, particularly as Wright fought lung cancer during the campaign. Daniel slammed his opponent over the GOP’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, while Wright …

WASHINGTON – Texas Democrats running for Congress put Republicans on the defensive in the state’s fast-changing suburbs, but it appeared unlikely late Tuesday that they would pick up even a few — or even any — U.S. House seats in territory that the GOP has long dominated. Upwards of a dozen districts were home to real competition on Election Day, …

Fort Bend County Sheriff Troy Nehls, a Republican, defeated Democrat Sri Preston Kulkarni, a former diplomat, in the Houston-area U.S. House seat left open by retiring Rep. Pete Olson, according to the Associated Press. It was Kulkarni’s second attempt at winning the district after narrowly losing to Olson, R-Sugar Land, in 2018. His race against Nehls was defined in part …

McKinney voters have elected to remove city council member La’Shadion Shemwell from office after a series of controversies involving race and policing in the city. With nearly all Collin County precincts reporting Tuesday, more than 70% of voters supported North Texas’ first successful recall of a sitting council member in at least a decade. At a city council meeting Tuesday …

Austin Rep. Chip Roy, a freshman Republican, won an expensive fight Tuesday to keep his seat in Congress from going to former Democratic state Rep. Wendy Davis. It was a titanic clash between two polarizing partisans. Roy leaned into his firebrand status during his first term in Congress, sometimes clashing with his own party over the COVID-19 response and other …

Eight-term GOP Rep. Michael McCaul of Austin has defeated Democrat Mike Siegel, a former Austin assistant city attorney who conceded late Tuesday. Siegel came out of nowhere in 2018 to come within 5 points of beating McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. This year’s rematch was even more heated, with both candidates slugging away at each …

Houston Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, a freshman Democrat, fended off Republican Wesley Hunt, an Army veteran, in a district that she wrested in 2018 from longtime incumbent GOP Rep. John Culberson, according to the Associated Press. In the race’s final days, the dominant topic was energy policy. Hunt sought to tie Fletcher to former Vice President Joe Biden’s pledge in a …