Source: http://blog.tehelka.com During a match in the 1989 India-Pakistan cricket series, K Srikanth started protesting after he was declared out leg-before-the-wicket. Imran Khan, a tiger in the making, gave him a […]
Source: ET and electronic Media. According to the projected election results based on incoming data, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will emerge victorious with 103 seats, followed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) with 32 seats. The PPP is expected to take around 25 seats. More:
By Katharine Houreld and Mehreen Zahra-Malik ISLAMABAD | Sat May 11, 2013 2:41pm EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/11/us-pakistan-election-idUSBRE9490V620130511 (Reuters) – Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif, seeking to become prime minister for a third time, appeared far ahead of his rivals in Saturday’s election, according to a partial count of votes cast. The election, in which […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan credit:Nation He happens to be the first army chief who actually went to a polling station to vote rather than have a ballot delivered […]
Since Imran Khan revealed his feelings about a minority Muslim group in Pakistan, some young voters’ opinions of him have soured. KARACHI, Pakistan — For the last two years, former cricketing superstar Imran Khan has been trumpeting talk of change to Pakistan’s public. Standing in front of beloved national monuments […]
Source:ET Recent Update JI announces election boycott in Karachi, Hyderabad 01:52:PM Two people die in a fight at Karachi polling station 01:46:PM Karachi rigging: Bogus votes and abduction in Malir Cantt 01:40:PM ANP workers took away ballot boxes from PS-96 Karachi: Polling officer More:
Source: The Conservative Papers. As one waits for a clearer indicator of the likely outcome of the polls, one has to be worried over the possibility of rogue elephant terrorist organisations such as the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Sunni extremist Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LEJ) causing major disruptions in the elections, particularly […]
NEW YORK — Pakistan is expelling The New York Times’ Islamabad bureau chief on the eve of national elections, accusing him of unspecified “undesirable activities,” the newspaper said Friday. Declan […]
Source:ET Election on May 11 is a truly historic one, marking the first constitutional transition of power from one democratically-elected government to another. DESIGN: EMA ANIS What happens today will decide our immediate future, hopefully for the next five years. Intense games of number crunching are, of course, on everywhere; […]
LAHORE, PAKISTAN – In majority Muslim Pakistan, religious minorities say democracy is killing them. Intolerance has been on the rise for the past five years under Pakistan’s democratically elected government because of the growing violence of Islamic radicals, who are then courted by political parties, say many in the country’s […]
Source:ET “Christians, the second largest non-Muslim community in the country – Hindus being the largest – has over 1.2 million voters. Ahmadis stand third with over 115 thousand registered voters followed by the Sikh community with more than five thousand,” he said.Mr. Malik listed Umerkot, Tharparkar and Mirpurkhas, all three […]
Source:The Economist. IT WAS a television image that many feared seeing in an election campaign beset by terrorist attacks. A prominent party leader, aspiring to be prime minister, was shown bloodied, unconscious and being carried from a rally. Late on May 7th Imran Khan, the charismatic leader of the Pakistan […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD Islamic Republic of Pakistan and People’s Republic of Bangladesh, two countries, which have a similar past and were one country until 1971, […]
Jemima Khan has tweeted reassurance that her politician ex-husband Imran Khan is recovering following his fall from a mechanical lift at an election rally yesterday (May 7). The former cricketer […]
Source. UKTIMES. London (A. Haq) In an accident Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf’s Chief Imran Khan has got severe head injuries when he was thrashed down from the lifter. Imran Khan was supposed to deliver address in a public meeting in line with election campaign. According to reports he was being […]
LAHORE: A group of anti-Ahmadi activists and police dragged five members of the community from an anti-terrorist court to a police station and detained them for several hours here on […]
Source: LUBP In an interviewed published in the backdrop of Pakistan’s forthcoming elections, only a couple of days away now, the great political thinker of these times Noam Chomsky has not shown much optimism about the outcome of the election results if the Punjabi mafia led by Nawaz Sharif wins. […]
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Daily Times: The fitna was started by Maulana Maududi; had it not been for him, Ziaul Haq and Bhutto, the Pakistanis would not have been belligerent towards fellow Pakistanis Khan’s statement that he has not asked the Ahmadiyya Muslims to vote for him is disturbing. Shouldn’t the future head of […]
Lahore: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan was badly injured when he fell off a lifter while being hoisted on to a stage at an election rally in Gulberg, near […]