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PTI, PPP field women candidates in NA-56, NA-57


January 15, 2024

RAWALPINDI: For the third time, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) fielded a female candidate in the city area constituency, NA-56, while PTI also nominated a woman candidate for NA-57, former prime minister Imran Khan’s constituency in 2013. PPP veteran Sumera Gul will face PML-N’s Daniyal Chaudhry, PTI’s Shaheryar Riaz, and Sheikh Rashid Ahmed in NA-56 on Feb 8. The PPP …

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PTI, JI supporters reach polling stations in Islamabad only to find them locked


January 1, 2023

ISLAMABAD: Some voters, mostly belonging to Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), reached polling stations on Saturday, only to find the gates of educational institutions, in which polling stations had to be set up, locked. They criticised the coalition government and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for not holding the elections. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday had directed …

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PTI, rivals in close fight as AJK votes in local polls


November 28, 2022

MUZAFFARABAD: The ruling PTI in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) appeared to have lost to its arch-rivals PML-N and PPP in Muzaffarabad district, but was ahead of them in Neelum and Jhelum valley districts, as polling for the first phase of local government (LG) elections in Muzaffarabad division was held on Sunday in a generally peaceful atmosphere. Contrary to the …

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PTI, MQM in war of words over Sindh governor’s slot


May 9, 2022

KARACHI: As the federal government has repor­t­edly decided to appoint Muttahida Qaumi Move­ment-Pakistan’s (MQM-P) senior leader Nasreen Jalil as the governor of Sindh, paving the way for her becoming the second female governor in the province’s history after Begum Raana Liaquat Ali Khan who served in the 1970s, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has criticised this purported decision. In his comment …

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PTI, PML-N supporters face off in London


April 11, 2022

LONDON: Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf faced off outside the residence of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif in London on Sunday, as one group celebrated and the other protested the ouster of PTI chairman Imran Khan from the premiership. A heavy police contingent stood in a chain between the two groups as they chanted slogans against …

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PTI, PPP back south Punjab province bill


January 18, 2022

ISLAMABAD: As a bill seeking creation of south Punjab province landed in the Senate on Monday, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi declared that the ruling party stood by its electoral promise and sought support of all other parties to help make it a reality. The private member bill was introduced in the House by Rana Mehmoodul Hasan of the Pakistan …

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PTI, PPP women get into physical brawl in National Assembly


December 31, 2021

ISLAMABAD: Ruling PTI MNA Ghazala Saifi and Shagufta Jumani of the opposition PPP got into physical brawl during the National Assembly’s noisy sitting on Thursday. The two lawmakers surrounded by others were seen shouting and pushing each other when the protesting opposition members had gathered in front of the seats of ministers to have a face-to-face argument at the time …

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PTI, PPP win one seat each in AJK by-polls


October 11, 2021

MUZAFFARABAD: As was being widely believed, Chaudhry Yasir Sultan of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Chaudhry Amir Yasin of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) won the by-elections in LA-3, Mirpur-III and LA-12, Kotli-V by a clear majority, according to unofficial and unconfirmed results that poured in late on Sunday night. In Mirpur city, 46-year old Yasir Sultan, who is the son of …

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PTI, MQM-P agree to hold ‘early’ census


January 17, 2021

KARACHI: In what appears to be an attempt to ignore the persistent protests by almost every major political party against the approval of the controversial National Census 2017, the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and its coalition partner Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan tried to move on and claimed to have agreed on Saturday on the need of conducting an early nationwide population count. …

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PTI, PML-Q once again on same page after successful talks in Lahore


February 10, 2020

The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) government and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) finally resolved their differences on Monday after a three-member government committee held talks with coalition partners to resolve longstanding and pending issues primarily on development funds and administrative powers. The government committee, comprising Punjab Governor Chaudhry Sarwar, Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood held its maiden …

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