Days after former Sindh home minister and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) senior leader Dr Zulfiqar Mirza announced formation of his own party, another senior leader of PPP Iqbal Yousaf, who served as PPP Karachi division president twice besides holding various positions in PPP Sindh, has formed a pressure group for the removal of co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and his sister MNA Faryal Talpur.
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KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Amir Senator Sirajul Haq said on Sunday the recent by-polls in Lahore have once again proved that election in Pakistan is a game of billionaires and beyond the reach of common man.
KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party conflicts over different issues of fielding candidates in local body elections in province, a new fraction of PPP Benazir Bhutto group will be announced soon.
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Punjab organiser Chaudhary Mohammad Sarwar has said that the provincial Election Commission (EC) has become a ‘B Team’ of the ruling PML-N for the upcoming local government elections.
LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party could not find candidates of chairman and vice-chairman for the local body polls in over 180 union councils of the provincial metropolis.
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has decided to expeditiously complete its investigations into alleged irregularities committed in the voter lists of NA-122 and PP-147 and approach the Election Commission of Pakistan, Nadra and courts “to expose the PML-N tactics.”
LAHORE: Fearing tough time at the hands of independent candidates in the local elections, the ruling PML-N has stepped up its efforts to set its own home in order before the electoral contest due on Oct 31.
KARACHI: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq views upcoming local government elections as an opportunity for people of Karachi to change the fate of their city.
SUKKUR: Senior Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, who is also the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, has rejected rumours about party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari being advised to quit and Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah being replaced.
BANNU: Three independently-elected councillors Sunday said that they would join the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to form the district government.
SWABI: Reacting to the termination of his basic membership by the Awami Jamhoori Ittehad Pakistan (AJIP), MPA Babar Khan said on Sunday that he was the elected representative of thousands of people and he would fight a legal battle if an effort was made to de-seat him. Babar Khan, who is the son of late Dr Muhammad Salim, (founder of the Swabi Qaumi Mahaz), was elected as MPA from PK-31 in the 2013 general election on AJIP ticket.
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s next session is scheduled for the last week of this month. This will be the first session after the de-seating of parliament speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq by an election tribunal on August 22. Sadiq has been reelected as MNA from the seat after a close competition on October 11 and is likely to resume his old position without any interruption
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Saturday assigned his daughter Maryam Nawaz the task to resolve an ongoing dispute between Faisalabad-based PML-N leaders Chaudhry Sher Ali and Rana Sanaullah.
QUETTA: The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is reconsidering a 2013 confidential deal under which Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Malik Baloch has to step down halfway through his five-year constitutional term to allow a PML-N nominee to head the provincial government.
ISLAMABAD: In an unusual departure from its squeaky-clean image, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf found its reputation dragged through the mud when the Election Commission of Pakistan named 38 of its legislators among the 272 parliamentarians it suspended for withholding details of their assets.
