LAHORE – Election Commission (ECP) has assigned symbols to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) candidates running as independents in the upcoming elections. You can find PTI candidates names.Read More →

MULTAN (Politico.pk): With four days left to rule on candidate appeals against rejections or acceptances of nomination papers by returning officers, appellate tribunals decided additional appeals on Saturday, allowing several candidates to run in elections. An electoral tribunal in Multan denied PTI leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s request to run inRead More →

Polls conducted in such conditions would be a “farce,” claims the PTI’s creator in a piece for a British journal. ISLAMABAD: As the country approaches a pivotal general election next month, former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan has decried the absence of a level playing fieldRead More →

ISLAMABAD (POLITICO.PK) – The deputy commissioner is not authorized to issue detention orders under 3MPO, according to the Islambad High Court (IHC). After taking the petitioners’ arguments, Justice Babar Sattar declared the reserved ruling in the case involving PTI leaders Sheryar Afridi and Shandana Gulzar’s imprisonment under 3MPO. The judgeRead More →

KARACHI, Pakistan — Politicians from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Raza Haroon and Anees Advocate, joined the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Friday.The announcement came after the two met with former president and party co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari in Karachi. Haroon, who was also a provincial minister, had previously joinedRead More →