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Zardari GREETS Nawaz at last, but calls his mandate sham

By: Mubashir Hassan | May 21, 2013

      LAHORE President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday told a gathering of party ticket holders at Bilawal House that the mandate Nawaz Sharif got in the May 11 elections was not genuine at ...

UN General Assembly hall undergoes first ever repair

By: Mubashir Hassan | May 18, 2013

UNITED NATIONSThe United Nations General Assembly Hall, the only conference room in the entire building carrying UN emblem, is undergoing its first ever repair work in the last 60 years.With a ...

How the US looks at political change in Pakistan

By: Mubashir Hassan | May 17, 2013

LAHORE - Given that not much time is left in the withdrawal of Nato forces from Afghanistan, the US administration is waiting passionately to work with the new political dispensation in Pakistan ...

Is print media dying in the US?

By: Mubashir Hassan | May 16, 2013

WashingtonThe United States of America is currently undergoing a media revolution where more people are switching to digital technologies to get news instead of relying on traditional sources of ...

New trends set in May elections

By: Mubashir Hassan | May 13, 2013

  lahore One of the most significant outcome of May 11 elections is the emerging trend of regionalism inPakistan’s politics. The election results show that no political party has succeeded ...

Press freedom: Pakistan painted ‘red’ on global map

By: Mubashir Hassan | May 07, 2013

      A recent report by Freedom House, a Washington-based organisation, has painted Pakistan ‘red’ on the global map labelling it as ‘not free’ for the ...

Vote split in NA-121 may benefit PPP

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 29, 2013

lahore - After the 2008 general elections which saw the PML-N candidate scoring a resounding victory over his rivals in NA-121, ground realities have changed considerably in this congested locality ...

Campaigning from the graves

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 26, 2013

LAHORE - This is for the first time in country’s electoral history that one of the major political parties, the PPP, is running its election campaign mostly in the media and that too by the ...

Victory ‘parameters’ for NA-124 candidates

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 25, 2013

Lahore - The electoral history of NA-124 points to mixed response from the electorate as they had been throwing up candidates for the National Assembly belonging to the major political parties. This ...

No smooth sailing for PML-N in NA-118

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 22, 2013

lahore -  One of the most interesting electoral tests in Lahore is going to be in NA-118, a constituency where the decisive factors which were in play the last time have undergone a tremendous ...

40 NA seats may go to spiritual healers

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 21, 2013

LAHORE - The spiritual healers (peers) have been playing a significant role in electoral politics much before the birth of Pakistan. Starting from the Pakistan Movement led by All India Muslim League ...

PPP fields unimpressive team for Lahore game

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 16, 2013

LAHORE - Facing a tough challenge of fielding strong candidates against its opponents, the PPP on Monday announced its contestants for 11 National Assembly seats from Lahore. Three of the PPP ...

PPP, N in a covert deal on two seats

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 15, 2013

LAHORE - The Pakistan Peoples party (PPP) and the PML-N seem to have struck a covert deal over seat adjustment in respect of at least two constituencies of D.G Khan where the competition appears to ...

All parties have promised the moon in manifestoes

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 13, 2013

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 ...

Now watch Aapas Ki Baat at CM Secretariat

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 10, 2013

LAHORE - Believe it or not, but it is true that Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi is ‘sharing’ some of his powers with his buddy Muneeb Farooq with whom he used to host a talk ...

Doubts over Sethi’s politburo

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 09, 2013

LAHORE - Though, apparently, a neutral caretaker set up has been put in place in Punjab, there are questions over the neutrality of top bureaucrats selected by the new chief ...

Sethi may accept SC, ECP decision to postpone elections

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 08, 2013

LAHORE - Giving a new twist to the already complex situation regarding the conduct of coming elections, Caretaker Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi on Sunday hinted at his continuance in office if ...

Swelling swing vote may prove decisive this time

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 06, 2013

LAHORE - A number of factors influence the voting pattern in every elections and the same is going to happen in the coming polls. Except the PTI, which is novice in politics, all other parties would ...

Zardari expresses solidarity with Ayyaz Mir

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 05, 2013

LAHORE - President Asif Ali Zardari on Thursday rang up the PML-N leader Ayyaz Mir and expressed solidarity with him over rejection of his nomination papers by the Returning Officer. In the 30-minute ...

Struggling to stage a revival of past glory

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 04, 2013

LAHORE - Shair-e-Punjab, as he was once called, is struggling to stage a revival of his past glory by contesting the next elections from Muzaffargarh on a National Assembly seat. After being ...

Hina may not contest on general seat

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 04, 2013

LAHORE - Former Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar is less likely to contest on a general seat from Muzaffargarh, it has been learnt. According to PPP sources, she would be allocated one of the ...

Quetta to have modern surveillance system

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 04, 2013

LAHORE - In the wake of terrorist activities and sectarian violence, the Federal government has approved a modern surveillance system for Quetta. This, first of its kind project, shall deploy ...

It is Ghinwa versus Faryal in NA-207

By: Mubashir Hassan | April 02, 2013

LAHORE - An interesting electoral battle during the upcoming elections is going to be fought in Larkana between Ghinwa Bhutto and Faryal Talpur. Faryal, who returned to the National Assembly ...

Ticket finalisation by parties in limbo

By: Mubashir Hassan | March 29, 2013

LAHORE - With only few days remaining in the filing of nomination papers, political parties seem to be in a state of utter confusion over award of party tickets to their candidates. It is mainly ...

Candidates in a fix how to control expenditures

By: Mubashir Hassan | March 29, 2013

LAHORE - Following the fixation of expenditure limit by the Election Commission of Pakistan, the candidates are in a fix how to keep their expenses within the prescribed limits. The ECP on Thursday ...

‘Sword’ to be out of sheath later PPP to shoot ‘arrow’, this time

By: Mubashir Hassan | March 27, 2013

LAHORE - Despite its registration with the Election Commission of Pakistan with election symbol sword, the PPP is most likely to contest the coming polls on the election symbol of ‘arrow” ...

Will he really shun politics? No

By: Mubashir Hassan | March 24, 2013

LAHORE - Though in principle President Asif Ali Zardari is not holding any party office at the moment, the question being asked is whether he would really shun politics or not.In the recently held ...

Zardari quits political office

By: Mubashir Hassan | March 23, 2013

LAHORE - In a big political development on Friday, President Asif Ali Zardari has quit the office of PPP co-chairman giving its reins into the hands of young Bilawal who has been elected ...

PPP, PML-Q break-up may deprive them of 24 NA seats

By: Mubashir Hassan | March 22, 2013

LAHORE - By all calculations and analysis, the PML-Q seems to be the ultimate loser if it comes out of the election alliance with PPP While the PPP would also get the chance to accommodate over 50 of ...

The matter has been left to the next govt

By: Mubashir Hassan | March 20, 2013

LAHORE - The issue of formation of new benches of the Lahore High Court in four major cities of the province would be decided by the next government, as the Punjab Cabinet in its last meeting had ...

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