International

Seventy-seven of the 99 journalists killed in 2023 were killed in the Israel-Hamas war, making the last 12 months the deadliest for the media in almost a decade, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. Killings of reporters would have dropped globally year-on-year had it not been for the deaths in that conflict, the CPJ said, although fatalities were stable ...

After a few days of uncertainty and ‘will-they-won’t-they’, the country finally got the answer to the most burning of electoral questions: who would be the next prime minister of Pakistan. It will apparently be a second shot at premiership for Shehbaz Sharif, the seemingly ‘reluctant’ consensus candidate, who was the one receiving pledges of allegiance from frontline political leaders of ...

Pakistan’s national election vote count concluded on Sunday with independents, mostly backed by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan, winning 101 of the 264 seats, the election commission’s website showed, reports Reuters. The final tally was released more than 60 hours after voting concluded in Thursday’s national elections, a delay that has raised questions about the process. The independents came ...

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday announced the complete results of the country’s General Election 2024 held on February 8. According to the election results announced for the National Assembly (NA), or the lower house of the country’s parliament, independent candidates got 101 seats, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif got 75 seats ...

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 ...