ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker Daniyal Aziz has served a legal notice to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan for using “defamatory remarks” against him.
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KARACHI: The Shirazis of Thatta and the Arbabs of Tharparker have accused the ruling party in Sindh, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), of influencing, harassing and kidnapping its rival candidates ahead of the first phase of the local government elections due this month.
LAHORE: A clash of words has begun within Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) ahead of local government elections in Faisalabad.
ISLAMABAD: The PPP has formed a committee to look into the causes of the party’s poor performance and embarrassing defeat in the recently held by-elections in Punjab and local government elections in two other provinces.
LAHORE: Expressing dissatisfaction over the NA-122 by-election result, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday said a special cell had been set up to gather proof of rigging which would be presented before the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) says its chief Imran Khan is not observing a boycott of the National Assembly and will attend the next session of the Lower House of the Parliament whenever it will be called.
ISLAMABAD: Opposition Leader in the National Assembly Syed Khursheed Shah on Tuesday said the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) will decide whether or not to support Sardar Ayaz Sadiq during the Speaker’s election.
ISLAMABAD: After losing the all-important NA-122 to Nawaz Sharif’s party, will Imran Khan now end his unannounced boycott of the National Assembly, which is expected to re-elect Ayaz Sadiq as speaker?
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday intervened in an ongoing tug of war among his senior cabinet members, asking Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal to continue his ‘good work’.
SUKKUR: Dispelling the impression about the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) having been inactive even in an environment of high politics witnessed in the just concluded Punjab by-elections, senior PPP leader Syed Khursheed Shah has said “what is going on these days is children’s game … let there be the general elections in the country and the PPP will show its might”.
LALAMUSA: Pakistan People’s Party information secretary Qamar Zaman Kaira has said that though PM Nawaz Sharif and PTI chief Imran Khan have won the Lahore by-elections, it is a defeat of the constitution, law and the Election Commission of Pakistan.
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Punjab organiser Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar said on Monday his party would review NA-122 voter lists and submit evidence regarding irregularities committed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter Maryam finds fault with the PML-N candidate that led to defeat of the party in by-polls for a provincial assembly seat from Lahore on Oct 11.
ISLAMABAD: A day after the PTI lost a close by-election in NA-122 (Lahore), the party told the Supreme Court that restraining its chief from campaigning for his candidates was a violation of the freedom of association guaranteed by the Constitution.
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s Punjab organiser Chaudhry Mohammad Sarwar said on Sunday night that the defeat of his party’s candidate in the NA-122 by-election by a ‘small margin’ of about 4,000 votes was not a defeat by just the rival candidate but the entire might and resources of federal and Punjab governments.
