TEHRAN-Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad contested Wednesday the disqualification of a close aide from next month’s presidential election by a conservative body that also dismissed moderate Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, leaving a field dominated by candidates close to Tehran’s ruling ...

ISLAMABAD Central leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Jahangir Khan Tareen, has accused a few returning officers of favouring certain candidates to change the election results and urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to hold recounting of votes in 25 constituencies of the National ...

MOSCOW: Moscow reacted angrily on Tuesday as its neighbour Azerbaijan admitted that its vote at the Eurovision Song Contest awarding “nul points” to Russia’s song appeared to have been falsified.The scandal topped the agenda at a televised briefing between the countries’ ...

 MultanThe District Returning Officer has declared PML-N candidate for PP-198 Mian Shahzad Maqbool Bhutta successful after recounting of votes in seven polling stations. The losing candidate Barrister Waseem Khan Badozai, who belonged to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, had filed an application for ...

HAFIZABADElection Commission of Pakistan has ordered re-counting of votes polled in NA-103 on the application of defeated N candidate Mian Shahid Hussain Bhatti who alleged that bogus votes have been cast in the polling stations by his rival independent candidate Ch Liaqat Abbas Bhatti (who has ...

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 ...

KHAIRPUR - Election Tribunal on Thursday ordered recounting of votes in NA-217.Syed Javaid Ali Shah, a PPP candidate of NA-217, had submitted an application asking the tribunal to order recounting of votes. In the petition, the PPP candidate had accused PML-F’s winning candidate Syed Kazim ...

  LONDON  -  Prime Minister David Cameron has suffered a fresh blow to his authority with around a third of his own party’s lawmakers voting against his policy on offering a referendum on Britain’s European Union membership.The lower house of parliament on Wednesday ...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Friday revoked Election Commission’s decision regarding recounting of votes in NA-57 constituency of Attock.PML-N’s winning candidate Sheikh Aftab had contacted Lahore High Court after ECP issued order of vote recount in NA-57 over application ...

NEW YORK A leading American newspaper on Wednesday urged President Barack Obama to invite PML-N President and Prime Minister-in-waiting Nawaz Sharif to Washington for an "early visit" in a bid to repair the "badly damaged" US-Pakistan relations."Nawaz Sharif faces staggering challenges," The New ...

LAHORE - Top Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Shahbaz Sharif has appealed to people to sink their differences concerning general elections and work hand in hand for a progressive and self-reliant Pakistan. “We all have to work together for welfare and well being of our people,” said ...

ISLAMABAD - European Union chief election observer Michael Gahler on Monday described Pakistan's 2013 landmark elections as a step forward, but said the province of Sindh topped in polls irregularities and rigging. Unveiling preliminary conclusions of EU observers’ team at a packed news ...

          PESHAWAR Once again the womenfolk were deprived of their right to vote on Saturday in general election as in some parts of the KPK and FATA, no woman voter turned out to cast her vote. InLower Dir, a jirga decided a day earlier not to allow women to vote inLower ...

Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan on Sunday welcomed the high turnout in the country's elections as a step forward for democracy, but said his party would submit a report on alleged vote-rigging.His first public remarks, made in a televised statement, came 17 hours after his main rival, ...

Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani cast his vote here on Saturday in NA-54 Rawalindi. According to details, General Kayani, in his uniform, followed all the procedures of producing his national identity card to the polling staff, got the ballot papers and then cast his vote for ...

Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Saturday cast his vote in NA-259 Quetta.Speaking to reporters, the CJP said that the holding of general elections in Pakistan is a proof of rule of law in Pakistan. “We hope that parliamentary system would go on”.The CJP urged people of ...

LOWER DIR/MIANWALI  - Elders in Lower Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Mianwali district of Punjab have banned women voting in their respective areas. According to BBC Urdu, the elders of KP-97 Lower Dir have decided that no woman would cast vote on May 11. Similarly, the elders of ...

  Owen Bennett-Jones The May 11 (today) elections will be different from any that have been held inPakistanbefore. And it’s not only because for the first time an elected government will finish its term and hand over power to a democratically elected successor. For decades Pakistani ...

Chief of his own faction of Pakistan Muslim League, Nawaz Sharif Saturday polled his vote saying that he was optimistic about his party victory.Former prime minister arrived at Government Technical College at Railways Road here under tight security where he polled his vote.After casting vote, Nawaz ...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN PTI candidate for NA-108 Zafrullah Tarar said that Imran Khan's statement in hospital clearly defined his party's vision.He said that his party chief had a dream to transform the country into a welfare state which will be fulfilled.He stated this while talking to the PTI workers at ...

LAHORE -Pakistan Tehrik Insaf Chairman Imran Khan will not be able to vote in landmark elections on Saturday as his doctors insist he needs to stay in hospital.Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital CEO Dr Faisal Sultan said on Thursday that Imran Khan was shifted to the ward and his health was ...

I voted in the last elections and my party won. I distributed sweets and made merry. But, I ended up crying for the next five years. I may have voted for the party that formed government but I hadn’t voted wisely. It was my loss and a loss for the entire country. Now that I am going to ...

islamabad - President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday, on the advice of the prime minister, approved and signed the Electoral Laws (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013, for including overseas Pakistanis in the voting process. The Law and Justice Ministry meanwhile stated the ordinance would not be effective ...

Islamabad - The three weeks election campaign for general elections 2013 came to end Thursday midnight with all the political parties and independent candidates convincing voters through last day speeches and rallies to cast votes in their favour on May 11.The election commission barred the ...

miranshsh - An unknown group Wednesday warned that women in a restive tribal region should not vote in Saturday's general election, threatening punishment."The people of Waziristan are hereby warned that they should not allow their women to cast votes and shouldn't let any candidate influence ...

President Asif Ali Zardrai has promulgated an ordinance, allowing over six million overseas Pakistanis to cast their votes.According to the ordinance, the overseas Pakistanis would have to get themselves registered with the Pakistani embassy in their respective countries.President Asif Ali Zardari ...

The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s doctor, Dr Faisal Sultan has said Imran will not be allowed to cast his vote in Mianwali due to his health.While speaking to the media, Dr Sultan said it was not possible to discharge Imran Khan from the hospital before Election Day. Dr ...

LAHORE - Prolonged power cuts continue disrupting life. People have been crying for power while authorities have been dragging feet over the matter. Punjab is the worst hit province where urban areas have been facing up to 14-hour loadshedding while rural areas have been experiencing up to 16-hour ...

ISLAMABAD - Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan Ishtiak Ahmed Khan has reiterated that the voters' turnout for the general elections would not be affected with the ongoing terrorist attacks in Pakistan, while hoping that the turnout would be more than 60 per cent."We're targeting 80 per cent ...

Lahore - PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Husain says there may be a surge of voting towards Imran “but whether that can be converted into electoral strength remains to be seen”.In a written interview to TheNation on Tuesday, the former prime minister said the PML-Q was expected to do ...