KARACHI  - Provincial Election Commissioner, Sindh Sono Khan Baloch has announced that by-election to PS-60 Tharparkar-I will be held on May 19, 2012.   Provincial Election Commissioner here Friday issued election schedule. Dates for filing of nomination papers with the Returning ...

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi won a seat in parliament on Sunday, her party said, after a historic by-election that is testing Myanmar's nascent reform credentials and could convince the West to end sanctions. Her National League for Democracy (NLD) party announced to loud cheers at its ...

LAHORE – Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Ch Nisar Ali Khan said on Tuesday that the PML-N would accept the October deadline for the next general elections but ‘will not let the PPP government go beyond that cut-off date’. Talking to media persons before the start of the ...

ASHGABAT - Turkmenistan on Sunday voted in presidential elections expected to see President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov cruise to a new term at the helm of the isolated state challenged only by token opposition.Seven candidates are standing against the president, who took power after the death in ...

YANGON - A hip hop singer and a recently freed political prisoner are among candidates launching bids for seats in Myanmar’s parliament alongside opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her party said Thursday.A list of 48 candidates released by Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) ...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE  - US President Barack Obama lands in Washington Tuesday after his Hawaiian vacation, facing a buzz saw of Republican campaign attacks as his reelection bid enters an intense new phase.Obama left behind the idyllic beaches, sumptuous restaurants and golf courses of his ...