islamabadThe upcoming ruling party, Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), may offer some cabinet slots to those parliamentary parties in the National Assembly which have significant presence in the Senate, ostensibly in a move to outwit Pakistan People’s Party-Parliamentarians (PPP-P) in the Upper ...

MULTANFormer foreign minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that his party will form government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as many parties are in contact with the PTI for this purpose.Addressing a news conference here on Monday, he added that ...

MULTAN - Our Staff Reporter -  PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that his party will form govt in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as many parties are in contact with the PTI for this purpose.Addressing a news conference here on Monday, he added that other political parties like Jamaat-e-Islami and ...

ISLAMABAD - Since the May 2013 elections are going to be conducted today (Saturday), major political parties of the country are not only dissatisfied with the arrangements of caretaker government but also deeply concerned over the results of the elections in given circumstances.Expressing their ...

KARACHI - Caretaker Interior Minister Malik Habib held meeting with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders at party’s headquarter Nine Zero here on Sunday and discussed law and order situation. MQM leaders Dr Farooq Sattar, Dr Sagheer Ahmed, Nabeel Gabool and others welcomed the minister. ...

LAHORE - From “Roti, Kapra and Makan” (bread, cloth and shelter) to “Jaag Punjabi Jaag, Teri Pag Wich Lag Gya Daag” (Wake up Punjabi as your turban is stained), the slogans have always been used to exploit or attract the voters in political history of the country. With the ...

lahore - The representatives of industrial bodies, expressing disappointment over weak economic agenda of political parties, have observed that no national level party has given any plan for revival of the export-oriented industry, particularly the value-added textile sector, which is constantly ...

RAWALPINDI - As bombs curtail campaign rallies, political parties are ploughing millions of dollars into TV and print adverts to sway voters ahead of next week’s historic polls.Competition is fierce but it’s a cash market and those with the biggest bucks get the most air time ahead of ...

karachi/lahore - Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif said that Pakistan People’s Party had failed to deliver during the last five years for which they should apologise to the nation. Talking to journalists at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi on Thursday, he said that the PPP ...

Islamabad - The former ruling coalition parties have said that battle lines have been drawn on ideological basis and complained they were being denied level-playing field to contest the elections.During a one-day Senate session, summoned to discuss prevailing law and order situation in the country, ...

LAHORE - Political parties have made music -- patriotic and party-themed songs -- an integral part of their election campaigns. Whether in television advertisement or in public and corner meetings of election candidates, playing popular national songs and party-themed songs have become a cult that ...

KARACHI  -  Excluding PPP, MQM and their former allies, about 17 political groups, in their joint written suggestion at an all-parties conference hosted by the Sindh interim government on Tuesday, demanded deployment of army in Karachi to ensure security for upcoming polls. Sources said ...

Having gone through an arduous and excruciating process of scrutiny, the political parties - minus PPP, ANP and MQM - have initiated their election campaigns throughout the country that is spearheaded by their top leadership. However, in the absence of PPP and its coalition partners due to an open ...

KARACHI - By ignoring the labourers, peasants and working class in awarding of tickets, almost all the political parties have tried to maintain the status quo and none is ready to make any changes on the economic, social and political fronts. Civil society activists, trade unionists and economists ...

LAHORE - Nationalist parties of Balochistan feel they had made a mistake by boycotting the 2008 elections, but now they want to participate in the electoral process so that the elected representatives could take steps to solve people’s problems.This was stated by intellectual, journalist and ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has stopped political parties and candidates from making personal attacks against others during the campaigning.The ECP states that personal attacks during campaigning violate the code of conduct and action will be taken against those who violate it.The ...

PTI chief Imran Khan has said that tested parties are unable to bring about a change in the country.He was addressing a joining ceremony of 67 former Nazims in Pakistan Tehreek-e- Insaf.Addressing a press conference held in a local hotel in Lahore‚ the leaders of the joining group termed ...

Karachi  - Keeping aside their ideology, the PPP and other parties have started a negotiation process for seat adjustment to win over the anti-MQM vote in the City.The contacts among the PPP, Jamaat-e-Islami, JUI-F and other parties yet to yield consensus for seat adjustment as all sides so ...

LAHORE  - PML-N President Nawaz Sharif on Sunday said his party, on coming to power, would end armed wings of political parties in Karachi. Talking to media persons here, Nawaz Sharif said Karachiites were facing barbarism due to negligence of the political forces which ruled the country for ...

our staff reporter sadiqabad - PTI candidate Rafiq Haider and PPP candidates Syed Murtaza Mehmood, Tariq Mehmood Khan and Ibraheem Khalil Leghari held separate public meetings in the tehsil to persuade the local people to vote for their respective party in the forthcoming general elections, while ...

our staff reporter mandi bahauddin - A survey conducted in NA-109 constituency shows that the PML-N was stronger and more popular than the PPP and the PTI in the area due the poor performance of the People’s Party in the last five years. A team of lawyers headed by Muzaffar Dhudra Advocate ...

LAHORE  - Ahead of General Election 2013, the religio-political parties are holding each other responsible for the failure to form an electoral alliance or devise a seat adjustment formula, TheNation has learnt. Almost all the religio-political parties had vowed to save the religious vote bank ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - There are severe differences and infighting among the candidates of two major political parties - the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) over the award of party tickets in some constituencies of district. Although the ...

RAHIM YAR KHAN - There are severe differences and infighting among the candidates of two major political parties - the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) over the award of party tickets in some constituencies of district. Although the ...

KARACHI - The political parties and civil society organisations have expressed shock over the anti-women remarks of former Sindh chief minister and chief of Peoples Muslim League Arbab Ghulam Rahim.They condemned him and demanded the Chief Election Commissioner to take notice of it.PPP Sindh ...

KARACHI - Civil society representatives, academia and researchers Monday observed that despite tall claims not a single mainstream political party had mentioned the land reforms issue in their party manifesto, as electoral process had been started.Addressing a seminar on ‘Reasserting the Land ...

LAHORE - A close scrutiny of party manifestoes unveiled in the run-up to the elections, shows that all political parties have promised the moon. All manifestoes are full of good intentions and pledges made with the country men to solve their problems. But people are really confused, unable to find ...

PESHAWAR - Both Qaumi Watan Party (QWP) and Awami National Party (ANP) will fight tooth and nail on the NA-7 and NA-8, Charsadda as both parties claiming themselves champion of Pakhtun rights but it will prove on may 11 to claim the throne of the district. Beside these two parties, the JUI-f, JI ...

ISLAMABAD - The PML-N's battle of nerves with religio-political and other factions to strike seat-to-seat adjustment is reaching new highs with each passing day, as the party has still not been able to thrash out an adjustment formula with any big political party across the country.The former ...

LAHORE – The religious parties of various schools of thoughts have come close to a seat adjustment formula eventually to save the religious vote bank from being divided, TheNation has learnt. A meeting of leaders of defunct Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) including Jamaat-i-Islami, Jamiat ...