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With no party winning a clear majority in the general elections in Pakistan, negotiations for a coalition government are taking place between parties led by former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, reported Reuters.Pakistan’s National Assembly has 336 seats, out of which 266 are decided by direct ...

Writing about the Pakistan cricket team well over a decade ago, Indian novelist Mukul Kesavan realised it wasn’t quite a touring cricket side so much as an insane theatre company; that it created “more drama in a single Power Play than most sides manage in a whole tournament”.When they ...

Independent candidates backed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf won 97 of 266 National Assembly seats in the South Asian country, Al Jazeera reported citing the final results announced by election authorities. No political party secured a majority in the election.Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz won 76 seats ...

Former Pakistani Prime Ministers Imran Khan and Nawaz Sharif both claimed victory in the country’s general elections on Friday although the counting of votes is still underway. So far, the Independent candidates backed by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have secured 91 out of 266 seats in the National Assembly, reported ...

Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan’s party-backed independent candidates were leading on Friday in Pakistan’s election results that started trickling in following unusual delays, leading to allegations of vote rigging.Votes are still being counted in Pakistan after Thursday’s general election which was marred by allegations of rigging, sporadic violence ...

In Pakistan, the counting of votes is underway after a midnight drama when the counting was halted at a time when Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf backed independent candidates are leading on over 154 seats as claimed by the party leaders. While Nawaz Sharif-led PML-N was leading at around 50 ...

A list of some key events over the last few years leading up to Pakistan’s parliamentary election on Thursday:July 25, 2018 — Pakistanis vote for a new government in an election marred by violence and allegations of fraud. July 26, 2018 — Former cricket star Imran Khan wins the ...

US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar criticised the democratic process in Pakistan on Monday, saying that the country cannot have “free and fair elections when one of the opposition parties has been criminalised.” “Since my colleagues and I raised our concerns about human rights in Pakistan last November, things have only ...

A Pakistan court on Saturday sentenced jailed former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years imprisonment in the ‘un-Islamic nikah’ case. Bibi’s first husband, Khawar Maneka, had filed the case, alleging that she violated the Islamic practice of observing the mandatory pause or Iddat ...

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