Prospects for India-Pakistan standoff on April 7, 2019The state of South Asian affairs changed rapidly after the Pulwama incident. Indian jets violated Pakistani air space and Pakistan retaliated. The swift counterstrike, meant to demonstrate the capabilities and readiness of its armed forces, was followed by the release of a captured Indian pilot. In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Baharatya Janata Party, engaged […]
Iran-Pakistan puzzle on February 21, 2019A few days ago, while the US and Israel were lobbying in Warsaw trying to convince the Europeans to join them in their harshanti-Iran drive, a bomb blast in Zahedan Left around 27 Revolutionary guards dead. The event was coincidental with another unfortunate event of the same nature in Kashmir. In the aftermaths of the […]
Internecine feud fuels electoral politics on July 15, 2018NA-135 LAHORE XIII Like NA-136, electoral politics in the bulk of NA-135 also revolves around biradari loyalties. Here too, it is the Khokhars who rule the roost. Votes and polling scheme Three provincial constituencies of PP-161, PP-170 and PP-173 fall under this national assembly constituency. The number of registered voters in this constituency is 243,689 […]
Contest between Khokhars hinges on clan alliances on July 12, 2018NA-136 LAHORE-XIV After having been an unrivaled political force in Lahore for a good two decades, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) goes into the 2018 election facing a formidable foe in the form of the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI). Many of the city’s 14 National Assembly seats are no longer considered safe for the N-League. As […]
PML-N rejects verdict against Sharif family on July 7, 2018Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Shehbaz Sharif on Friday rejected the accountability court’s verdict sentencing former prime minister Nawaz Sharif to ten years in prison in the Avenfield reference case. Addressing a press conference shortly after the NAB court’s verdict, the younger Sharif said, “The verdict is political; has many shortcomings and will go down […]
Candidates from Lahore kick off their election campaigns on July 2, 2018LAHORE: The main political parties and candidates from Lahore’s 14 national and 30 provincial seats have kicked off their electioneering campaigns to give a tough time to opponents in their respective constituencies. According to the final delimitation in Lahore, almost two constituencies of Provincial Assembly are falling into 12 national while there are two national […]
Supporters of those PTI and PMLN members who did not get tickets hold protest on June 29, 2018LAHORE: Unsucceeded loyal leaders and supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) who are not awarded tickets in their respective constituencies for upcoming general elections of July 25, continued their protests outside PTI Chief Imran Khan’s residence during his visit to Lahore on the second consecutive day. PTI leader from Kamalia Muhammad Chaudhry Sarwar along with […]
It’s not just London; the Sharifs have properties in Switzerland and UAE: Fawad Chaudhry on June 26, 2018LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Spokesman Fawad Chaudhry has claimed that more properties of the Sharif family are exposed in Switzerland and United Arab Emirates (UAE) after the London flats and offshore companies in Panama. Addressing a press conference at the party secretariat on Monday, Fawad Chaudhry said that Maryam Nawaz Sharif who was claiming to […]
ECP declares 5,398,622 voters eligible from Lahore. Are you one of them? on June 26, 2018LAHORE: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) issuing polling scheme for Lahore has declared a total of 5,398,622 voters eligible for deciding the political fate of the city in the upcoming general elections. According to the polling scheme issued by the ECP, a total of 3,012,260 male and 2,386,362 female voters will cast their two […]
PMLQ demands suspension of local bodies until elections are held on June 26, 2018LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid has demanded of the caretaker government to suspend all local bodies in order to hold free, fair and transparent general elections in the country. PMLQ’s senior central leader and former deputy prime minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi has said that free, fair and transparent elections cannot be held without suspending local […]