PESHAWAR - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidate for provincial assembly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa retained PK-10 seat after vote recount. Awami National Party (ANP) candidate Khushdil Khan had pleaded for vote recount on PK-10 after PTI’s Shah Farman’s lead in polls.The Returning ...

  SIALKOT   PPP's former federal minister and a candidate for National Assembly Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan supported by the PML-Q gave a new twist to local politics when she announced to withdraw in favour of PTI's candidate Usman Dar from NA-110 (Sialkot City-I), early on Saturday morning ...

Former Federal Minister and PPP candidate Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan has withdrawn from NA-110 in favour of the PTI candidate contesting from the constituency. PTI candidate Usman Dar is among the candidate for the seat which also include PML-N candidate Khawaja Asif and JI candidate Arshad ...

MUZAFFARGARH - A candidate of Tehrik Tahaffuz-e-Pakistan died of cardiac arrest at Rangpur late on Thursday night during election campaign. The District Returning Officer (DRO) Muzaffargarh has sent the report regarding death of PP-254 candidate Mehr Mushtaq Ahmad Khera to the ECP for the ...

TOBA TEK SINGHDistrict Bar Association President Chaudhry Nazir Ahmad Raza, General Secretary Abdul Munem Oatal, former District Bar Association presidents - Rana Muhammad Anwar and Rai Muhammad Anmwar announced support for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf candidate Chaudhry Muhammad Ashfaq here the other ...

KARACHI -  PML-N leader Nehal Hashmi clarified that none of his party’s candidates has withdrawn from the electoral process in the city, as some elements are busy misleading the masses in this regard.Addressing a news conference Thursday along with six PML-N candidates, he said some ...

SHEIKHUPURAIndependent candidate for PP-168 Sheikhupura, Advocate Rana Ali Salman is the son of former Punjab chief secretary and federal finance secretary Salman Siddiq. He is a member of Sheikhupura Stadium Cricket Trust and a senior officer-bearer of the Punjab Cricket Board. He is contesting ...

WARBURTONIndependent candidate for PP-173 Ameer Ali Joyia has been mustering public support as a large number of notables are joining his campaign vigorously.He is ceaselessly carrying out his campaign and is making contacts with people of the area, especially the educated people.He believed that ...

KARACHI  - Putting its weight in support of Jamaat-e-Islami’s candidate Naimatullah Khan, PML-F’s candidate Kamran Tessori has announced withdrawing from election on NA-250 Defence/Clifton seat of national assembly of Karachi.The NA-250 constituency comprised of posh areas of ...

faisalabad (News desk) - An independent candidate for NA-83 Faisalabad, Amjad Rabbani has passed away due to a cardiac arrest here on Tuesday. Following the death of Amjad Rabbani, the Election Commission of Pakistan has announced postponement of the polling for NA-83 and declared that new schedule ...

LAKKI MARWAT -  GHULAM MURSALIN - PML-N contender for PK-74 (Lakki Marwat-I) Qareebullah withdrew in favour of PPP Provincial President Anwar Saifullah Khan while Jamaat-e-Islami aspirant Mufti Irfanullah made his position strong by getting the support of Ittehadul Ulema and Burakhel tribe. ...

LONDON (NAWA-I-WAQT): Pakistan born prominent legal expert Solicitor Muhammad Aslam Sheikh who is contesting election for Council Election 2013 of Britain’s legal experts’ representative organization Law Society of England and Wales, is emerging as a stronger candidate for the slot. A ...

At least 12 people were killed and several others wounded in a suicide blast near a JUI-F’s election gathering here on Tuesday.According to police, the blast took place at the main market in Doaba area of Hangu district.JUI-F candidate in PK-43 Mufti Saeed Janan is also among the injured.It ...

NOORPUR THALAn independent candidate for NA-70 Malik Zafar Borana withdrew in favour of JUI-F contender Maulana Abdullah Ahmad. He made this announcement at a public gathering held at his residence in Adhi Sargal village.  Meanwhile, PML-N Tehsil President Malik Manzoor Ahmad Baga launched a ...

MARDAN - Riaz Mayar - Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) candidate for NA-11 Mardan-3 is facing a tough contest with JUI-F candidate Maulana Imdadullah and ANP’s Inayat Khan to retain his national assembly seat. A tough contest is expected among the JUI-F, PPP and ANP though the candidates ...

orakzai agency - Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) candidate from NA-39, Orakzai Agency, survived an attack when a roadside bomb on Saturday exploded near his vehicle in Hangu district.JI candidate Raj Muhammad, who is trying his luck from NA-39, was on his way to Ferozekhel area of Orakzai Agency from Hangu ...

LAHORE - “Although electioneering is not possible without money but personal character of a candidate and his loyalty to the State should be considered while voting for him on election day”.This was stated by PPP candidate from PP-139, Mian Majid Hussain in an exclusive interview with ...

LAHORE - “Problems like unavailability of pure water, inflation and increasing unemployment are the real issues which are creating challenges in the way of both new and old aspirants of general elections”.These views were expressed by PML-N candidate from PP-140, Majid Zahoor during an ...

Karachi - Awami National Party (ANP) candidate Sadiq Zaman Khattak, contesting for NA-254 Karachi, was gunned down along with his four-year-old son by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in Bilal Colony on Friday.Following the killing, the Election Commission postponed polls in the constituency while ...

Awami National Party (ANP) candidate Sadiq Zaman Khattak was gunned down in the Bilal Colony area of the city. Khattak was the ANP candidate for NA-254. Unknown gunmen opened fire on Khattak outside a mosque located in the area. According to hospital sources five people were injured in the ...

Quetta - An independent provincial assembly candidate, Abdul Fateh Magsi along with three companions was shot dead and two others sustained serious injuries on Tuesday in an armed attack in Jhal Magsi district of Balochistan.The heirs of Fateh Magsi claimed that 27 people of their clan who were in ...

An independent candidate was killed in Jhal Magsi area of Balochistan on Tuesday.Levies sources said Abdul Fatah Magsi, who was contesting election from PB-32 constituency, was gunned down by unknown assailants in his area Jhal Magsi.The Election Commission has announced to postpone polls in PB-32 ...

LAHORE - However strange it may seem, PTI election candidate for PP-140, Zubair Khan Niazi, has called on Nawaz Sharif to visit the national assembly constituency he announced to contest elections from to learn the bitter reality that the entire situation has changed. In an interview with The ...

SWABI   - Brother of the Awami National Party candidate of a provincial constituency, who was attacked Saturday night by unknown suspected militants, succumbed to his injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, said party leaders here on Sunday.Akhtar Muneer, the brother of Muhammad ...

SADIQABAD  - Abudl Jabbar Warind, an independent candidate for PP-296 seat, has withdrawn in favour of Shaukat Dawood, the PTI candidate for the same constituency, while the Warind, Manik and Korija clans also assured the PTI nominee of their full cooperation in the elections. Abdul Jabbar on ...

RAWALPINDI - For the first time in the history of the country, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has awarded tickets to the youth in huge numbers while other political parties are busy in finding high and mighty candidates to win the general elections 2013.This was stated by a young ticket holder of ...

PESHAWAR  - Arbab Kamal, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) leader, has said that in recent past no one has diverted attentions towards the long standing problems being faced by the people of rural area of Peshawar.“The Awami National Party is responsible for the backwardness of this areas as ...

PESHAWAR - Unidentified militants on Tuesday attacked the house of a PPP candidate for NA-1, Zulfiqar Afghani in Gulbahar area in Peshawar using a hand grenade but inmates remained safe as it exploded on the roof of the house. According to police, unknown miscreants threw a hand-grenade on the ...

WASHINGTON - The United States has condemned the killing of Sindh Assembly candidate for next month’s election Fakhrul Islam, a member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement.“We do condemn the recent killing of Fakhrul Islam, a provincial assembly candidate from Sindh, and condemn any violence ...

HAFIZABAD - A case under section AO11B-20/65 has been registered at Kassoki Police Station against an independent candidate for NA-102 Ch Shoukat Ali Bhatti and his gunman on the charge of violation of the Election CoC by displaying arms during a corner meeting in Thatha Gondalan and Thatha ...