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KARACHI: Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) on Sunday announced the names of its candidates contesting in the upcoming general elections.

The PSP chairman Mustafa Kamal unveiled the names of its party electoral candidates in a workers convention held in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of the port

DHAMIYAL: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) disgruntled leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Sunday pressed the people to not vote for him if standards of living in their constituencies are lower from the constituencies of Nawaz Sharif, Shehbaz

KARACHI: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari presided over an important meeting of senior Party leaders to devise electoral strategy for winning maximum number of seats all over the country and to pre-empt attempts aimed at the manipulations of

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Saad Rafique on Sunday declared the general elections an open challenge against Imran Khan, aiming the defeat of PTI chairman in all five of his selected constituencies.

Briefing an electoral campaign at Lahore’s Bedian s

ISLAMABAD: After days of deliberations and protests from enraged workers at Bani Gala, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has released a final list of its candidates running in the general elections next month.

According to a statement issued by the PTI on Sunday, the list  

LAHORE: Days after Zaeem Qadri announced to run as an independent candidate in Lahore, another PML-N loyalist Chaudhry Abdul Ghafoor parted ways with the party.

In a press conference on Sunday, former provincial minister announced that he would personally launch an

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) on Sunday filed candidates to challenge former interior minister Chaudry Nisar Ali Khan who is at loggerheads with Nawaz Sharif.

Chaudhry Nisar will be running on two national and two provincial assembly seats in the general

MIANWALI: PTI chairman Imran Khan has kick started his party's campaign for the general elections 2018 from his home constituency Mianwali.

Addressing a gathering of supporters here on Sunday, Imran Khan said that he chose Mianwali to start his election campaign because he had

MULTAN: Dozens of PTI women workers staged a protest outside the residence of Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Sunday and protested against "unfair distribution of tickets" on reserved seats.

The workers staged the sit-in outside Qureshi’s residence, accusing the p

KARACHI: In its latest report on the properties owned by the ‘super rich’ family of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, a UK paper on Sunday revealed that the assets Sharif family owned in London were estimated at at least £32 million.

One of the most priced property

Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major-General Asif Ghafoor said that one more Army personnel has been martyred while performing his duties at the Pak-Afghan border on Sunday.

The DG ISPR stated in his tweet: “Another son of soil sacrificed his l

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LONDON: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has ruled out an immediate return to Pakistan owing to critical condition of his wife Kulsoom Nawaz who remains on a ventilator in a London hospital.

Kulsoom Nawaz has been admitted to Harley Street Clinic in London after

Islamabad: Former President of Pakistan and President Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians Asif Ali Zardari has expressed his deep sorrow and grief over the martyrdom of two army personnel during an operation against terrorists in South Waziristan. 

Two army

MULTAN: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has not yet awarded a ticket to veteran politician Javed Hashmi who is aspiring to contest the next general election from his home constituency in Multan.

Javed Hashmi’s name doesn’t feature in the list of candidates iss

KARACHI: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari’s spokesman has issued a clarification about the price of Bilawal House declared by PPP chairman in his asset details.

Reacting to reports concerning Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s asset details, Spokesman to the Chairman, S

A petition challenging Maryam Nawaz’s candidature for Punjab Assembly constituency PP-17 was dismissed by an appellate tribunal in Lahore on Saturday.

The former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz had her nomination papers for PP-173 c

Tehreek-e-Taliban Taliban (TTP) announced it had appointed a new leader on Saturday after the militant group confirmed for the first time its former chief Maulana Fazlullah was killed in a US drone strike last week.

Fazlullah is believed to have ordered the failed 2012

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has decided not to field its candidates opposite disgruntled senior party leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.

According to a source privy to the development, PML-N wants to keep its door open for Chaudhry Nisar at

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has dismissed a claim by India that its High Commissioner in Islamabad was denied access to a Sikh religious site.

“Sikh pilgrims were protesting against maltreatment in India and release of controversial movies,” according to For

Pakistani singer Ali Zafar has taken Meesha Shafi to court for the allegations of sexual harassment she placed against him, terming them ‘baseless.’

The singer turned actor filed a case against Shafi under the Defamation Ordinance 2002 in Lahore

LAHORE: The PML-N‘s Parliamentary Board announced Saturday that Maryam Nawaz Sharif would contest election from National Assembly constituency NA-127 and Punjab Assembly's constituency PP-173.

According to the list released by the former ruling party, Hamza Shehbaz Sharif will be

LAHORE: PTI leader Waleed Iqbal express his dismay at his party’s choice of candidates seeking to contest from Lahore in the upcoming general elections.

“Lahore cannot remain silent on the unfair distribution of tickets in the city,” Iqbal tol

LAHORE: Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chairperson Tahir-ul-Qadri on Saturday announced that his party will not be contesting  the upcoming general elections of 2018.

The announcement came with directives for party workers to withdraw from candidacy in the upcoming

LAHORE: A traffic official was beaten up by a woman after he asked her for her number in the Shahdara area of Lahore.

As per Geo News reports, the woman asserted that the traffic warden misbehaved with and also abused her. The footage surfacing shows

RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Army has killed six terrorists during an operation in South Waziristan, the ISPR said on Saturday.

According to the army, security forces conducted successful Intelligence Based Operation (IBO) in village Spina Mela

LAHORE: Five members of a family, including three children and a woman, were gunned down in Sargodha early on Saturday.

According to reports, unknown gunmen broke into a house and opened fire on the residents, killing five members and injuring one in Bhalwal

MULTAN: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)  vice chairman  Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Friday took jibe at  party’s former secretary general Jahangir Tareen, saying; "I am not insane to compete with Tareen," he was quoted by Geo News as saying.

The new episode of differences between

LONDON: Former prime minister and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Benazir Bhutto's only surviving sibling Sanam Bhutto has thrown her weight behind her nephew, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

At an event held here at the Willesden Green Pakistan Community