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In a major political development, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) has claimed that it has won 170 out of 265 National Assembly seats and is set to form an alliance with Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM), Pakistan-based The Nation reported on Saturday. This comes even though the counting for the polls is underway and the independent candidates mostly backed by the PTI, have clinched ...

Following the victory of candidates with its support in the Feb 8 polls, the PTI on Friday claimed it had become the single largest party in the Centre and two provinces and vowed to get back its iconic symbol “bat”. The party has decided not to sit on the opposition benches in the National Assembly, hinting at alliances with other ...

Candidates loyal to jailed former prime minister Imran Khan have won the most seats in Pakistan’s assembly race with just over half of constituencies called on Friday, the Election Commission said, reports agencies. Imran Khan’s PTI-backed Independent candidates are leading on 74 seats, followed by PML-N on 5, PPP on 40 and MQM-P 5, according to the unofficial results released ...

Former three-time Prime Minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif on Friday won by a big margin by getting 171,024 votes against PTI-backed independent Dr Yasmin Rashid who polled 115,043, as per news agency PTI. His younger brother and former premier Shehbaz Sharif also won, in addition to his son Hamza Shehbaz and Sharif’s daughter Maryam Nawaz. All ...

Candidates linked to jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan were running a close race with the party of three-time premier Nawaz Sharif today as election results trickled in after a long delay that added to accusations of poll rigging. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was barred from contesting Thursday’s election as a bloc, but official results showed independent candidates linked ...

At least five people were killed in militant attacks in Pakistan on Thursday as the country voted in a general election after temporarily suspending mobile phone services and closing some land borders to maintain law and order, report AP and Reuters. The interior ministry said it took the steps after at least 30 people were killed in two explosions near ...

At least 24 people have been killed in two blasts in southwestern Pakistan near the offices of two election candidates, according to local officials. The first attack, which killed 14, took place at the office of an independent election candidate in Pishin district in the Balochistan region. The second explosion in Qilla Saifullah, a town near the Afghan border, detonated ...

Former President Donald Trump, who has refused to debate any of his rivals for the Republican nomination, on Monday said he wanted to debate US President Joe Biden immediately. “I’d like to debate him now because we should debate. We should debate for the good of the country,” Trump said on a radio show hosted by conservative commentator Dan Bongino, ...

Namibia’s President Hage Geingob died early Sunday in a hospital in Windhoek, the presidential office said in a statement on social media platform X. He was 82. “It is with utmost sadness and regret that I inform you that our beloved Dr. Hage G. Geingob, the President of the Republic of Namibia has passed on today, Sunday 4 February 2024 ...

Israeli airstrikes killed 18 Palestinians in Rafah and Deir Al-Balah, Gaza health officials said on Saturday, in the last two Gaza Strip cities where troops had not been deployed, adding to residents’ fears Israel would expand its ground operation, reports Reuters. Health officials said an Israeli airstrike on a house in Rafah, where more than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million ...