The 1970s were no different in Pakistan as well...
Incidentally (and rather aptly), the 1970s in Pakistan were dominated by one of the country’s most enigmatic, flamboyant and contradictory politicians ever: ZA Bhutto...
The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday decided to challenge the results of the recent NA-260 Quetta-Chagai by-election...
PTI chief Imran Khan discussed the matter with Babar Awan over the phone and decided to come up with a legal strategy to formally contest the election results in light of "undeniable evidence of election rigging...
LARKANA: Activists of Pakistan Peoples Party wore black armbands and hoisted black flags on party offices across the province on Wednesday to observe a ‘black day’ in condemnation of Gen Ziaul Haq’s overthrow of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s elected government on July 5, 1977...
At another programme in Qasimabad, former consultant of Sindh chief minister Abdul Jabbar Khan, PPP leaders Zahid Bhurgari, Iqbal Soomro and others said that...
’ She is well known for her seminal book on Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the demand for Pakistan, The Sole Spokesman...
Her latest book, which was published in 2014 was titled The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics...
Gen Zia drags Pakistan into the jihad sponsored by the Americans and SaudisMay 26, 1980Establishment of Federal Shariat Court is announcedDecember 19, 1984Zia holds referendum on ‘Islamisation’ which will give him five more years at the helm...
These include the Prohibition Order and the Zina Ordinance as well as separate laws for amputation for theft and punishment by whippingMarch 18, 1982Changes introduced to the Pakistan Penal...
LARKANA: Activists of Pakistan Peoples Party and PPP-SB took out rallies and held demonstrations across the province on Sunday to observe July 5 as a ‘Black Day’, the day when Gen Ziaul Haq overthrew democratically elected government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and imposed martial law...
The midnight military coup on July 5, 1977, would always be remembered in the history of Pakistan as a black day when the unanimously passed constitution...
LARKANA: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Tuesday observed the 1977 military coup anniversary as a ‘black day’ across Sindh with its workers wearing black armbands and holding demonstrations and rallies in the streets of all cities and towns of the province, like other parts of the country...
A loarge number of activists took part in a programme held at the Larkana district PPP office at Kennedy Market to condemn the overthrow of the...
“1977 or 1999?” one friend asked me, elaborating that, in his view, the former situation seemed more likely after Imran Khan’s pointed accusations because it was becoming clear that such a spiral would only leave one of the two men standing at the end of the fight...
Editorial: Pakistan, for the first time in recent memory, seems to be flirting dangerously with civil warWhereas his populist politics may have initially ridden the wave...
Kenya's Supreme Court on Friday ordered a new presidential election after annulling the results of last month's poll in a shock decision in favour of the opposition...
He said it was the first time a presidential result had been overturned in Africa...
LONDON: Gold fell on Monday as the prospect of a fractured parliament in Germany after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s less than resounding election victory knocked the euro lower...
6pc against the dollar and southern European government bonds sold off after the German election result sparked fears of a more hardline stance towards the euro zone in the bloc’s largest economy...
KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan said on Saturday the result of by-election for NA-246 constituency would determine the future of Karachi...
“The future of Karachi is linked to this constituency and the future of Pakistan depends on Karachi,” Mr Khan remarked...
ISLAMABAD: Civil society activists on Monday submitted a petition to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) challenging the results of the by-elections in PK-95, Lower Dir, on the grounds that women were not allowed to vote...
The petition which was initiated by human rights activist Farzana Bari, was signed by activists from various non-governmental organisations including Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)...
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary committee on Wednesday recommended to the National Assembly to pass a law requiring fresh polling in a constituency if less than 10pc of the registered female voters cast their vote in an election...
Members of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs proposed the step after the Secretary of the Election Commission told them in a briefing that some of the political parties were not...
GWADAR: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has failed to announce the result of by-election of PB-50-Turbat-3 where polling was held on Dec 31...
All the four candidates — Mir Muhammad Akram Dashti of the National Party, Akbar Askani of PML-N, Mir Muhammad Ali Rind of Balochistan National Party-A and independent Lala Khurshid — have been claiming victory and massive rigging in the election...
Republican candidate Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested he might reject the outcome of the Nov 8 US presidential election if he loses, a possibility his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton called “horrifying”...
Also read: Trump offers to help reduce India-Pakistan tensionsIn a fiery debate that centered more on policy than the earlier showdowns, Trump accused Clinton's campaign of orchestrating a series of accusations by women who said...