Trends - Live Elections 2018

No, it's not okay to make a joke at the expense of the people you're asking for votes

Are you laughing with someone or at someone?

Updated 20 Oct, 2022 02:59pm

Has Imran Khan struck a chord with his support for the PTM?

Social media has been abuzz about Imran Khan's recent interview to Hamid Mir, in which he made pretty explicit...

Updated 08 Nov, 2018 01:04am

Is anything off the table for Imran Khan when it comes to defeating PML-N?

Apparently not.

Updated 20 Oct, 2022 02:59pm

We want your feedback about our elections blog!

Some quick questions for you, dear ...

Updated 27 Jun, 2018 02:58pm

The pir power in Pakistan's power politics

Spiritual guides (pirs) are deeply embedded in Pakistan's electoral culture. No, we are not just referring to Imran...

Published 27 Jun, 2018 12:21pm

The battle brewing between old-school religious parties and their newer, fiercer versions

The religious political parties of the old are being replaced by feistier, more radical versions and there is little...

Updated 27 Jun, 2018 02:49pm

Special persons allowed to vote but there may be a catch

Overseas Pakistanis may not get to vote in elections 2018, but there is some encouraging news on adding previously...

Updated 28 Jul, 2018 08:42pm

Fabulous wealth is fine, if it's not steeped in crime

The generation of wealth must not be stigmatised.

Published 27 Jun, 2018 08:19am

Are Imran and Zardari showing voters a mirage with their jobs promises?

The parties are in no position to deliver on what they have promised, at least in a meaningful way.

Published 26 Jun, 2018 05:16pm

Polls are just around the corner, so where are the party manifestos?

So far, MMA is the only political force to have announced its manifesto.

Updated 26 Jul, 2018 09:02am

A page out of Tahirul Qadri's book on what to do when you feel 'dejected and irrelevant'

Requires multiple visas for most people.

Updated 20 Oct, 2022 02:59pm

The last thing you would expect to find inside Imran Khan's ancestral Mianwali home

Mian Nawaz Sharif is to Imran Khan what any protagonist ever is to any antagonist (or vice versa depending on what...

Updated 28 Jul, 2018 08:41pm

Et tu, Shahbaz? PML-N president promises to turn Karachi into Paris

All eyes on Karachi.

Updated 20 Oct, 2022 03:02pm

Wise up delay seekers or ex-PM Abbasi will get you tried for high treason

Whoever tries to get the 2018 elections postponed will face the wrath of our burly former PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi,...

Updated 28 Jul, 2018 08:44pm

Political doldrums or dramatic turnaround — what's next for Chaudhry Nisar?

Chaudhry Nisar may still technically be on the books of the PML-N but he is certainly not in the good books of Nawaz...

Updated 26 Jun, 2018 12:56pm

GDA leaders have serious concerns about the caretaker set-up in Sindh

"An election held amidst anarchy will be harmful for the country," Fehmida Mirza says.

Updated 25 Jun, 2018 10:21pm

Nawaz will 'definitely' return to Pakistan, says Maryam

PML-N leader and aspirant for NA-125 Maryam Nawaz has tried to allay the impression that her father, former PM Nawaz...

Updated 25 Jun, 2018 07:56pm

It's “Selection 2018” – is this the end of democracy?

Has this first and only decade of democratisation come to its end?

Published 25 Jun, 2018 04:11pm

Shahbaz wants to avoid blame games but holds PTI responsible for Pakistan's miseries

Khadim-i-Aala aka Shahbaz Sharif, the PML-N chief, landed in Karachi on Monday to launch his electioneering for the...

Published 25 Jun, 2018 02:29pm

Khan gets the go-ahead to contest polls from Mianwali

It's official! PTI Chairman Imran Khan has been declared eligible to contest the upcoming general elections from his...

Published 25 Jun, 2018 01:40pm

Poll climate cannot please everyone, election commissioner tells petitioners seeking delay

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Justice Sardar Muhammad Raza on Monday refused to buy the argument that the ...

Published 25 Jun, 2018 01:13pm

Can Nisar shake up Nawaz and the PML-N?

Check out today's toon in Dawn:

Published 25 Jun, 2018 11:42am

Another lesson Pakistan could learn from Turkey's commitment to vote

We all know how Turkey foiled the infamous coup d'état attempt in 2016 and stood firmly behind democratic forces...

Updated 28 Jul, 2018 09:50pm

The threat to 2018 elections that no one is paying any mind to

The organising aspect of the 2018 polls has kept all the electoral stakeholders so preoccupied that the threat of...

Updated 28 Jul, 2018 08:43pm

Arif Alvi jokes about Chaudhry's Nisar's pressers that never deliver on their promise

As mentioned in one of the previous posts on this page, Chaudhry Nisar has this habit of threatening to expose "all...

Updated 25 Jun, 2018 11:23am

PPP smells blood in MQM but can it really grab a bigger piece of the Karachi pie?

Altaf Hussain is done like a dinner. His MQM(s) are so chopped up that their many monikers represent an alphabet...

Updated 29 Aug, 2018 07:54pm

Sirajul Haq vows creation of 'Islami Pakistan' in pre-election power show in Peshawar

Claims 'Islami Pakistan' will be the emancipator of Muslims in Kashmir, Palestine and elsewhere in the world.

Updated 25 Jun, 2018 02:37am

Reiterating 'old promises', Imran Khan launches election drive from Mianwali

Promising a manifesto "like no other in Pakistan's history", the PTI chief kicks off his election campaign in Mianwali.

Updated 25 Jun, 2018 02:34am

This politician has NO assets to declare

No house, no plot, no vehicle.

Updated 09 May, 2019 09:15pm

Aamir Liaquat isn't happy (to put it mildly) with Hamza Ali Abbasi's tweet

Uh-oh.

Updated 20 Oct, 2022 02:59pm