LAHORE: The observers’ estimates put the voter turnout at around 50pc, given the pace and pattern of the entire day’s exercise at the end of polling in the provincial capital. Almost all 14 NA constituencies along with 30 provincial assembly seats in the city saw a slow start in the morning and it only picked up some pace late afternoon. …

KARACHI: While the pace of announcing polling station-wise results in Karachi was slower than other parts of the country, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan on Thursday night claimed to have won 17 to 18 National Assembly seats in Karachi, Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas. However, rival parties — the Jamaat-i-Islami and PPP — contested the MQM-P claim. On the other hand, the provincial …

ISLAMABAD: The nationwide suspension of cellular mobile telephony as well as mobile data service at 8am on the election day caught the citizens by surprise, not only creating fear among the voters but also caused significant loss to several mobile data based businesses. The international internet watchdog ‘NetBlocks’ too has said it detected internet blackouts in multiple regions across the …

ISLAMABAD: The capital police registered a case against 30 people for preparing a public meeting of PTI in Bhara Kahu, police said on Thursday. According to the FIR, a police team got information that 25 to 30 persons, 10 to 15 of them armed with weapons, were present at Dhoke Jillani Ground and preparing for a public meeting of the …

LAHORE: As many as 20 people were injured in sporadic incidents of violence all over Punjab during election/polling day on Thursday. The major incident occurred in Talagang of Chakwal where four persons were shot at and injured during an armed clash between two groups. However, the police claimed it was not an election-related incident, but a result of an enmity …

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 …