PML-N faces former PPP, Q-Leaguers contesting on PTI tickets on July 7, 2018KASUR It is a two-way race in all of the provincial assembly seats in Kasur between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI). While all of N-League contestants have won elections on the party’s tickets in the past, several of PTI candidates, equally experienced in parliamentary politics, have recently jumped ship from […]
‘Left without support after Asma’s death’, peasant movement now faces its leader’s 10-year prison term on June 29, 2018OKARA: When he was released on bail a few weeks ago, Anjuman-Mazaraeen Punjab (AMP) general secretary Mehr Abdul Sattar returned to his native Chak 4/4 L amid cheers and roars of jubilant peasant women and children gathered along the main road. Prior to his release, he had been held at a high security prison in […]
PTI a divided house on June 26, 2018Kasur: Infighting between influential families that have joined the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf over the last couple years leave the party a divided house in Kasur district. With just a month left in the election, the party has yet to solve disputes between these families. In the previous elections, Kasur had five NA seats (from 138 to […]
6-year-old girl forced into marriage to settle honour in Pakpattan on June 23, 2018A 6-year-old girl’s fate was decided by a panchayat when it ordered her family to marry her off as vani to settle a love marriage dispute in Mehraabad, UC Jewan Shah in the area of Police Station Rangshah, Pakpattan on Thursday. According to reliable sources, father of the 6-year-old told Daily Times that a few […]