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pakistan election news

Pakistan's new finance minister Muhammad Aurangzeb is an ex-JPMorgan banker

Pakistan's new finance minister Muhammad Aurangzeb.
Published on Mar 12, 2024 10:08 am IST

Shehbaz Sharif invokes Kashmir in 1st speech, then makes embarrassing confession

File photo of Shehbaz Sharif, who has been elected as the next prime minister of Pakistan.
Published on Mar 03, 2024 07:01 pm IST

Shehbaz Sharif elected Pakistan's prime minister for a second time

Pakistan's former Prime Minister and leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party Shehbaz Sharif
Updated on Mar 03, 2024 04:51 pm IST

Pak electoral body formed committee records statements amid rigging allegations

Polling staff count ballots after the end of the voting at a polling station during a general election, in Hyderabad, Pakistan. (Reuters)
Updated on Feb 21, 2024 02:41 pm IST

Pakistan elections 2024: Official admits rigging under his watch, resigns

Pakistan Elections 2024: Supporters of Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's party 'Pakistan Muslim League-N, celebrate victory of a candidate of their party in the parliamentary elections, in Peshawar.
Published on Feb 17, 2024 03:22 pm IST

Could February 9 Pakistan elections be declared null? Court to decide

Pakistan Elections: Supporters of Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's party 'Pakistan Muslim League-N, celebrate victory of a candidate of their party in the parliamentary elections, in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Published on Feb 16, 2024 04:39 pm IST

No good choices ahead for Pakistan after elections

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A woman cast her ballot at a polling station during Pakistan's national elections in Islamabad on February 8.
Published on May 11, 2024 03:50 pm IST

Who will become Pakistan's PM? How will next government be formed? Explained

Pakistan Elections 2024: Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party supporter wears Khan's mask whilst he protests against the alleged skewing in Pakistan's national election results, in Karachi.
Published on Feb 12, 2024 04:18 pm IST

Pakistan election: Imran Khan loyalists at top, but may not form govt. Why?

Pakistan election result: A portrait of the former prime minister Imran Khan is seen amid flags of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the religious and political party Jamat-e-Islami (JI) as supporters attend a joint protest demanding free and fair results of the elections, outside the provincial election commission of Pakistan (ECP)in Karachi,
Published on Feb 11, 2024 06:14 pm IST

Malala Yousafzai on Pakistan elections: ‘I believe today, as I always have…’

Pakistan Elections 2024: Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai speaks during an interview.
Published on Feb 10, 2024 08:08 pm IST

UK notes 'serious concerns' over Pakistan elections: ‘Not all parties were…’

Pakistan Elections: David Cameron, UK foreign secretary, arrives for a meeting of cabinet ministers at 10 Downing Street in London.
Published on Feb 09, 2024 10:51 pm IST

Pakistan People's Party 'only party' that wants timely elections: PPP chief

Pakistan People's Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Published on Oct 03, 2023 01:44 pm IST

Pak election body publishes lists of preliminary delimitation of constituencies

Security personnel stand guard on top of the parliament house building in Islamabad on August 9, 2023. Pakistan's parliament was dissolved on August 9, ushering in a technocrat-led interim government to oversee an election that will not include the country's most popular politician, Imran Khan. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)
Published on Sept 28, 2023 12:45 am IST

Pakistan's general elections to be held in last week of January 2024: EC

The previous government just days before the end of its term announced that the elections could take place only after a new census was completed and new constituency boundaries were drawn. (File)
Updated on Sept 21, 2023 03:50 pm IST

Economy to army: Five challenges Pakistan’s new PM Imran Khan faces

The posters of Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan are displayed along a highway in Islamabad on Saturday. Pakistan's cricket star-turned-politician Khan was sworn in as prime minister on Saturday.
Updated on Aug 18, 2018 05:18 pm IST

Pakistan election: Shehbaz Sharif, Bilawal Bhutto fail to get minimum vote share, to lose security deposit

Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif of the PML-N party is among 10 political parties chief who have failed to obtain the mandatory 25% of the total votes polled in their constituencies, and stand to lose their security deposit.
Updated on Aug 13, 2018 09:57 pm IST

Imran Khan’s party bags 33 more seats as PTI set to form government

Labourers, who set up the venue, sit under a wall with a billboard displaying a photo of Imran Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), political party in Karachi, Pakistan.
Updated on Aug 12, 2018 02:45 pm IST

How a phone app, database of 50 million voters helped Imran Khan claim victory in Pakistan election

A supporters of Pakistan's cricketer-turned politician and head of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party Imran Khan stands next to poster of him near Khan’s residence in Islamabad. The use of the phone app and the database partly explains how Khan’s party managed to win tight-margin races in the nuclear-armed nation of 208 million people.
Updated on Aug 05, 2018 10:14 am IST

Pakistan elections: 1.67 million votes were rejected, says report

A voter casts her vote at a polling station during the general election in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Updated on Aug 04, 2018 11:31 pm IST

Yet to get formal invite for Imran Khan’s swearing-in: Kapil Dev

Kapil Dev said he congratulated Imran Khan over phone on his becoming Prime-Minister-in-waiting.
Published on Aug 04, 2018 06:14 pm IST

Imran Khan to be sworn in as PM before August 14, his party says

A big poster of Imran Khan, head of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, at a market in Islamabad on July 28.
Updated on Jul 29, 2018 08:00 pm IST

Extremist groups rejected, Hafiz Saeed-backed party fails to win a single seat in Pakistan election: Results

Hafiz Saeed, center, head of the Pakistani religious party Jamaat-ud-Dawa, affixes his thumb impression before casting a vote in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, July 25, 2018.
Updated on Jul 28, 2018 06:07 pm IST

In a first, Hindu candidate wins National Assembly seat in Pakistan elections

Politician Mahesh Kumar Malani is from the Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP).
Updated on Jul 28, 2018 08:26 pm IST

US, EU, Britain voice concern over Pakistan elections

A supporter of Imran Khan, chief of the Tehreek-e-Insaf party, releases fireworks to celebrate projected unofficial results announced by television channels indicating their candidates' success in the parliamentary elections in Islamabad on July 26.
Updated on Jul 28, 2018 10:07 pm IST

Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N concedes Pakistan election to Imran Khan; EU cites concerns

The allegations of rigging in Wednesday’s election followed a bitter campaign in which Pakistan’s powerful military was accused of tilting the race in favour of Imran Khan.
Updated on Jul 27, 2018 07:34 pm IST

Imran Khan’s wife congratulates Pakistan for choosing a leader who ‘takes care of people’s rights’

Imran Khan is set to form the government after bagging the highest number of seats in the 11th general election in the country.
Updated on Jul 28, 2018 12:12 am IST

Pakistan election results ‘tainted, dubious’, says Nawaz Sharif from inside prison

File photo of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif addressing a party general council meeting in Islamabad.
Updated on Jul 28, 2018 12:12 am IST

Imran Khan’s party gains comfortable lead in Pakistan election, but will need coalition to form govt

Cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan, chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), speaks to members of media after casting his vote at a polling station during the general election in Islamabad, Pakistan, July 25, 2018.
Updated on Jul 27, 2018 06:47 pm IST

If India takes one step forward, we will take two: Set to be Pakistan’s new PM, Imran Khan talks peace

Cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan, chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, gives a speech as he declares victory in the general election in Islamabad, Pakistan.
Updated on Jul 27, 2018 10:40 am IST

New Android-based mobile application technology behind delay in declaring Pakistan election results

An employee of the Pakistan Election Commission compiles official results of the parliamentary elections at the election commission's headquarters in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Thursday.
Updated on Jul 26, 2018 11:48 pm IST