ISLAMABAD - It was for the first time in the history of Pakistan that turnout exceeded 55 per cent during recently held elections. However, females were once again barred from voting in some parts of country, including Orakzai Agency, where allegedly male voters cast votes on behalf of females who ...

lahore - The Lahore High Court on Friday suspended the orders of the Election Commission of Pakistan for recounting of votes in NA-137 of Nankana Sahib. The court passed the orders on a petition moved by winning candidate of PML-N Rai Mansib Ali Khan.The petitioner through counsel told the court ...

HAFIZABADThe PML-N obtained 3,23,671 votes as secured one of the two National Assembly and two Provincial Assembly seats while rival Independent Group of Ch Mehdi Hassan Bhatti secured 2,69,163 votes by winning one each NA and PP seats, revealed elections results complied by the returning ...

MULTAN Once the PPPP leadership rose a slogan, telling the masses that democracy is the best revenge. The people seem to have crammed this slogan and perfectly applied it in Election 2013. An analysis reveals that the PPPP lost almost 40 per cent of its vote in four national and nine ...

SOFIA - Bulgarians voted Sunday in a close snap general election marred by accusations of vote-rigging and expected to result in a political stalemate and fresh protests in the EU's poorest member.Despite its ouster by mass protests just three months ago, the conservative party of former bodyguard ...

Pakistan today turned out to vote in one of the larger turnouts in its history, for the first time in a transition from a government who has just completed a 5 year full-term in office, to its successor. Defying threats by the Taliban young and old, urban and rural voters, stood in long lines at ...

lahore - Former president Pervez Musharraf did not cast his vote for any candidate on Saturday as his party, the All Pakistan Muslim League, had boycotted the elections.Gen Musharraf is detained at his Islamabad’s residence, which has been declared sub-jail, for his alleged involvement in ...

  peshawar   The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Engineer Shaukatullah on Friday visited various parts of the Peshawar City and met with citizens especially traders.  The governor exchanged views with people and asked them to exercise the right of verdict with confidence and courage in ...

Minister for Information and Broadcasting Arif Nizami has said that apprehensions about delay in elections are over and the nation is poised to exercise its right of vote tomorrow with enthusiasm.He was talking to newsmen after inaugurating Post Election Complaint Cell at NADRA headquarters in ...

islamabad - When a rock-band song mocking Pakistan's army was mysteriously blocked on Internet sites recently, no one was surprised. But, as political parties jousted their way to this Saturday's elections, it was a small reminder of where power really lies.There is no doubt that attempts to bury a ...

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 ...

Pakpattan - PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif on Tuesday said that President Asif Ali Zardari and Imran Khan were trying to divide the PML-N vote bank.Addressing a public gathering in Pakpattan, the former Punjab chief minister alleged that President Asif Ali Zardari had placed his gun on the shoulder of ...

CHITUNGWIZA, - Zimbabweans voted on Saturday in a referendum expected to endorse a new constitution that would trim presidential powers and pave the way for an election to decide whether Robert Mugabe extends his three-decade rule. Mugabe, Africa's oldest president at 89, has ruled the former ...

US Congress is stepping up the pressure on the Obama administration to slap the terrorist label on the Haqqani network, a militant group responsible for plotting and launching attacks from Pakistan against US-led forces in Afghanistan.By voice vote Tuesday, the House of Representatives approved a ...