“In almost pendulum-like fashion, it appears the military has gone from governorship back to guardianship,” wrote expert Aqil Shah in his book The Army and Democracy. The military has justified …
Shehbaz Sharif will be the nominee for Pakistan’s next prime minister to lead a new coalition alliance formed between different parties, a spokeswoman said on Tuesday after national elections last …
PTI leaders claim they would have won even more seats if not for vote rigging. A nationwide election-day mobile telephone blackout and the slow counting of results led to suspicions …
Gohar Khan, the chairman of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-Insaf (PTI) party who also acts as the former premier’s lawyer, called on “all institutions” in Pakistan to respect his party’s mandate. At …
Khan, a former cricket star turned Islamist politician with a significant grass roots following, was disqualified from running in Thursday’s election because of criminal convictions. He contends his sentences and …
Voter turnout was a modest 42 per cent, well below the average of 50 per cent for the general elections of 2008, 2013 and 2018. 02:12 Explosions on eve of …
Campaign posters for Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan’s former prime minister, along a street ahead of Pakistan’s national election in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty …
Independent candidates backed by imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan were leading Pakistan’s national election results Friday, a surprise given claims by Khan’s supporters and a national rights body that …
Islamabad — As long lines of pessimistic Pakistani voters waited to cast ballots on Thursday, many had serious doubts about the power of their votes to influence the course of events …
Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s party was slightly ahead in early election results on Friday, after vote counts were hit by unusual delays that the government ascribed to a …