By Staff Reporters
ISLAMABAD: As millions of Pakistanis cast their ballots in a tense and closely monitored general election on Thursday, the government imposed a sweeping blackout of mobile and internet services across the country, citing security concerns.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistanis began voting on Thursday in a tense election that could decide the fate of the country’s struggling democracy and its near-bankrupt economy, amid tight security and threats of violence.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Two back-to-back explosions outside the election offices of two election candidates in Balochistan, Pakistan’s restive southwestern province, killed at least 26 people and wounded dozens more on Wednesday, officials said.
By Staff Reporter
The caretaker government approved a plan to restructure the loss-making national airline, Pakistan International Airlines Corp., paving the way for its privatization after the Feb. 8 election.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Bushra Bibi, the wife of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, filed a petition on Tuesday in the Islamabad High Court seeking to be moved from her home, which has been declared a sub-jail, to the Adiala Jail where her husband is being held.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Mohsin Naqvi, a media mogul and the interim chief minister of Punjab, the country’s most populous province, was elected unopposed on Tuesday as the new chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, ending a 13-month leadership vacuum in the country’s troubled cricket administration.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan prepares for a crucial parliamentary election on Thursday, several human rights and media groups have urged the authorities to ensure a free and fair vote and uninterrupted Internet access amid allegations of harassment and rigging by the party of former prime minister Imran Khan.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s election campaign entered its final hours on Tuesday, as candidates and parties scrambled to woo voters ahead of a pivotal vote that could alter its political landscape amid heightened security and a looming threat of violence.
By Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD: A group of militants attacked a police station in northwestern Pakistan early on Monday, killing at least 10 officers and wounding six others, officials said, in the latest episode of violence ahead of this week’s national elections.
ISLAMABAD: At least 10 policemen were killed and six wounded when militants attacked a police station in the country’s northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province early on Monday, officials said.
