PPP dominates in Rawalpindi district
RAWALPINDI, Oct 11: The People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) emerged as the single largest party in Rawalpindi district by winning three national and five provincial assembly seats out of a total of...
PML-Q grabs 3 NA, 5 PA seats in Attock
ATTOCK, Oct 11: PML-Q has routed three major parties by grabbing two National and four provincial assembly seats of the Attock district...
PPP candidate triumphs in Murree
MURREE, Oct 11: The candidate of People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP), Ghulam Murtaza Satti, defeated Pakistan Muslim League-N’s Shahid Khaqan Abbasi in NA-50 constituency by a margin of 10,465 votes....
ANP, PML factions taste bitter defeat
SWABI, Oct 11: The Awami National Party (ANP) and Muslim League have tasted their worst-ever defeat at the hands of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) candidates in the district Swabi....
PML-Q, MMA share Hazara seats
PESHAWAR, Oct 11: Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-i-Azam) has won four National Assembly seats and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal bagged three seats in Kohistan, Battagram, Mansehra, Abbottabad and Haripur....
Iftikhar Gilani defeated in Kohat
KOHAT, Oct 11: Mufti Abrar of Muttahida Majlis-i-Ammal, won the NA-14 seat by a huge margin defeating the former law minister Syed Iftikhar Hussain Gilani of PML-Q....
Girl killed in clash
MANSEHRA, Oct 11: A minor girl was killed and her brother was seriously injured on Thursday when the supporters of two candidates clashed over alleged bogus voting and rigging in PF-56, Mansehra-IV....
PML-N backed candidates win in Lakki
LAKKI MARWAT, Oct 11: PML-N dominated the election in the district. Maulana Amanaullah of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal, who was supported by PML-N won from the National Assembly seat NA-27 with 65,635 votes...
Nisar asks parties to stop allegations
ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: Minister for Information and Media Development Nisar A. Memon urged the politicians on Friday to stop accusing the government of “rigging” and start working for the national development...
PPP describes delay in results as last-minute rigging
ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) on Friday voiced concern over the inordinate delay in the announcement of election results, alleging that the regime was holding back those to...
Govt accused of rigging
ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: Reports of rigging in the general election started pouring in as results of many seats were not announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan till late Friday night....
MMA sweeps NA seats in Balochistan
QUETTA, Oct 11: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) was emerging as a major party in the National Assembly from Balochistan as it has won three seats while in five other constituencies its...
Japanese team says process transparent
ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: Japan election observation team observed on Friday that “as far it was able to see the polling and counting processes on the election day, despite some isolated cases...
Benazir calls for new polls
ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: Chairperson of Pakistan People’s Party Benazir Bhutto called on Friday for new elections in the country and alleged fraud in the counting of votes in Thursday’s elections....
Minister lauds ties with China
ISLAMABAD, Oct 11: The Federal Minister for Communications and Railways, Housing and Works, Javed Ashraf Qazi, has said that the Pak-China friendship was playing a vital role in the economic uplift...
Agosta subs: French team arrival delayed
PARIS, Oct 11: With the official admission on Thursday that the French tanker, Limburg, was the victim of a terrorist attack on Oct 6 off Yemen, French personnel working for the...
Election flawed: UK paper
LONDON, Oct 11: British daily, The Times has described general elections in Pakistan as flawed saying “in reality, whichever parties come out on top, the vote will do no more than...
PML(Q) replaces N-League on Punjab throne
GUJRANWALA, Oct 11: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lost its ascendancy in Punjab as a result of its division and was replaced by Pakistan Muslim League (Quad-i-Azam) almost everywhere except in...
PPP re-emerges in southern Punjab
MULTAN, Oct 11: The PML-QA has emerged as the single largest party in the southern Punjab by winning 20 national and 39 provincial assembly seats. There are 50 NA and 104...
Chaudhrys sweep the board
GUJRAT, Oct 11: The Chaudhrys of Gujrat have made a clean sweep in the Gujrat tehsil by defeating political heavyweights of the PPP....
Sialkot traders assured of cooperation
SIALKOT, Oct 11: Commercial consulates of Australia, Iran and Italy have assured the local business community of their full cooperation in exploring new trade markets....
Election expenses
SIALKOT, Oct 11: The intelligence agencies have started collecting data of election campaign expenditures of all the candidates....
No clue to snatched ballot boxes
SIALKOT, Oct 11: Police on Friday failed to find a clue to the eight ballot boxes which were snatched by six unidentified gunmen on Thursday from the Government Girls Primary School,...
Dozen PML-J supporters booked
GUJRANWALA, Oct 11: Naushera Virkan police late Thursday night registered a case against a dozen PML-J supporters on the charges of snatching ballot papers and boxes from polling officers and for...
Illicit arms
SIALKOT, Oct 11: The Daska city police have recovered two Kalashnikovs from PPP candidate in PP-130 Azam Khan and his elder brother Asif Chaand Khan, and a 222 rifle and 7mm...
PPP finishes second in Lahore
LAHORE, Oct 11: The PML-N has won four out of the 13 National Assembly seats of the provincial capital and 14 provincial assembly (PA) seats out of the total 25 seats,...
Free-trade pact with Sri Lanka to be signed
LAHORE, Oct 11: Commerce Minister Razzak Dawood has said the introduction of better policies and competitive edge in the world market can help enhance country’s annual exports manifold....
MMA to hold talks with certain parties
LAHORE, Oct 11: The Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal said on Friday that no party could form the government without its support and it would negotiate only with those agreeing to its terms....
Qasim alleges govt favouring PML(Q)
LAHORE, Oct 11: Punjab PPP president Qasim Zia on Friday rejected the Thursday elections as well as their results, saying the regime was trying to favour the PML-QA....
JAC plea to MPs-elect
LAHORE, Oct 11: The Joint Action Committee of teachers, doctors and students have said the nation has rejected the IMF-agenda, anti-people, anti-education and anti-health policies in the elections....
Transporters promised fare payment on Monday
LAHORE, Oct 11: Almost all the impounded public transport vehicles were returned by the government agencies promising to pay the fare on Monday....
Chattha claims victory
LAHORE, Oct 11: PML(C) President Hamid Nasir Chattha said on Friday he had won his two Gujranwala seats (NA-101 and PP-103)....
Directive to remove banners, hoardings
LAHORE, Oct 11: The city government on Friday asked candidates, who had contested for national and provincial assemblies seats, to remove banners and hoardings from their constituencies....