Illiterate Pakistan housewife makes vote history
KHAR, Pakistan: A Pakistani housewife, who cannot read or write despite being married to a headteacher, has made history by becoming the first woman approved to run for election in […]
‘Bangladesh, friend of all’
Source: BD News 24 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said Bangladesh was pursuing a foreign policy with the principle of being ‘friend of all, and enmity with none’. She told the visiting delegation of the US House of Representatives that 5,409 elections had taken place under her government without […]
Successful but Unfair Elections will Complete the Radicalization of Pakistani State?
Express Tribune: Terrorism after Bilour’s death by Khaled Ahmad and comments by Abdul Alim The Taliban have killed Bashir Bilour, one of the top leaders of the ANP in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. In the aftermath, ANP leaders have said some bitter things about how Pakistan interprets terrorism in the country. They insist that it […]
President Ernest Bai Koroma secures second term in Sierra Leone
Freetown, Sierra Leone – Dr. Christiana Thorpe of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) announced at 6:30 pm local time that President Ernest Bai Koroma, presidential aspirant for the All People’s Congress Party (APC) has secured a second term as President of Sierra Leone with 58.7% (1.3+ million) of the votes […]
Sierra Leone: Polls Open in Sierra Leone General Elections
Polls opened at 7am this morning in most parts of Sierra Leone as the country elects its next president for the next five years in the country’s third election since the end of a brutal civil war, a high-stakes poll billed as a litmus test of the mineral-rich nation’s democratic […]
Obama fundraiser’s bin Laden movie to hit screen two days before elections
Two days before the presidential election, a film embellishing the death of Osama bin Laden will be released by a company whose co-chairman has raised more than $100,000 for the […]
Islamists, ex-PM reach out to rivals in Egypt
REUTERS ARABBEWS CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood and a military man close to ousted leader Hosni Mubarak courted defeated first-round candidates in Egypt’s presidential election yesterday, each trying to claim the […]
Anger grips Egypt over Mursi-Shafiq runoff
Abu Al Fotouh to back brotherhood against Mubarak-era premier By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent GULF NEWS Cairo: The streets in the Egyptian capital appeared almost deserted yesterday as most of […]