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Former President Pervez Musharraf Friday appeared in a court in Islamabad to reply to the charges about his action to impose emergency rule during his 1999-2008 government, lawyers said. A case had been filed in an Islamabad police station against Musharraf, charging him of placing hundreds of top judges under house arrest when he […]
Jamshid Dasti announced on Thursday to contest elections on two National Assembly seats shortly after he was released from Multan jail on the order by the Lahore High Court. The Lahore High Court cancelled Dasti’s three-year prison sentence handed down to him in a fake degree case and ordered his release. The court […]
Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) and Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) Wednesday agreed to make seat adjustment in Balochistan for the May 11 elections. PML-N leader and former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif met BNP chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal and agreed to form committees for seat adjustment. Both told a joint presser that the seat […]
President Awami National Party (ANP) Asfandyar Wali Khan has claimed that his party had rejected U.S. pressure about the peace deal with the Swat Taliban. “The ANP was under tremendous pressure from the United States not to enter into peace agreement with militants in Swat but it ignored the pressure in view of ground […]
Renowned columnist and the PML-N candidate in Chakwal, Ayaz Amir, was allowed to contest National Assembly election as an election tribunal cancelled an earlier decision by Returning Officer. The Returning Officer had rejected Ayaz Amir’s papers over his controversial columns about the Ideology of Pakistan. An election tribunal bench in Rawalpindi overturned the […]
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Tuesday announced its manifesto, making a pledge to end difference between the rich and the poor. Imran Khan was the chief guest while the party spokesman highlighted salient features of the document at a press conference in Islamabad. The PTI manifesto stated that the […]
The Election Commission of Pakistan has expressed its inability to provide vote casting right to the overseas Pakistanis. The Election Commission of Pakistan submitted its report in this regard in the Supreme Court on Monday. The Commission opposed hurried evolution of a mechanism to enable overseas Pakistanis to exercise their right to vote. […]
The European Union will deploy over 100 observers and experts in different parts of Pakistan to monitor election activities, Head of the European Union Election Observation Mission to Pakistan Michael Gahier said Monday. Addressing a news conference in Islamabad he said the Observer Mission is visiting Pakistan on the invitation of Ministry of […]
The Supreme Court has summoned former Pakistani President General (retired) Pervez Musharraf to appear on Tuesday in proceedings of high treason charges against him, court officials said Monday. Five petitions, seeking high treason proceedings against Musharraf, had been filed in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, and the apex court has now issued notices to […]
The election authorities on Sunday rejected nomination papers of former Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf over his misuse of powers and favourtism on the last day of the scrutiny of papers of thousands of candidates. In another development the election authorities accepted nomination papers of former President Pervez Musharraf to stand for the May […]
The Election Commission of Pakistan Saturday started hearing of fake degrees of former members of the parliament, who are also in the field for the upcoming polls. CEC Fakhruddin G. Ibrahim is presiding over the meeting being attended by four members of the ECP in Islamabad. The deadline, given to former legislators to […]
Nomination papers of former president Pervez Musharraf for NA-139 in Kasur were rejected by the Returning Officer on Friday. Javed Kasuri advocate had raised six objections at Musharraf’s papers which also included abrogation of the constitution. One of the objections stated that the ex-general does not meet the criteria established in Article 62 […]
