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DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Supreme Court orders the government to hold snap polls in the most populous province of Punjab on May 14.Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s Supreme Court has declared the country’s poll panel’s decision to delay the assembly elections in two provinces as “unconstitutional”. The top court on Tuesday ...

ISLAMABAD —  Pakistan's lingering political crisis is deteriorating further after election authorities delayed the polls for a key provincial legislature, a move legal experts and politicians are warning could plunge the nuclear-armed country into a constitutional crisis. The Election Commission of Pakistan, or ECP, tasked with holding national and ...

ISLAMABAD —  Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said Thursday a bomb blast had ripped through the office of a provincial governor, killing him and two others. The early morning attack in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of the northern Balkh province, wounded at least seven people, according to local hospital officials. Provincial ...

Mohammad Dawood Muzammil’s killing comes a day after he met top government officials visiting from capital Kabul.A bomb blast in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province has killed three people, including its Taliban governor, police said. “Two people, including Mohammad Dawood Muzammil, the governor of Balkh, have been killed in an ...

#Pakistan News Pakistan's opposition party led by former Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved its provincial government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday, seeking to force Pakistan to hold an early national election. The move comes just three days after doing the same in Punjab province. Under the rules, fresh polls ...

After Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa legislature dissolved as part of ex-PM Imran Khan’s bid to force early general elections.Islamabad, Pakistan – The provincial assembly in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been dissolved, the second such move in less than a week as former Prime Minister Imran Khan pushes for early ...

KARACHI, PakistanThe governor of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday dissolved the provincial assembly, the state-run Pakistan Television reported.Governor Ghulam Ali, who represents the federal government, approved the dissolution of the 124-member Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.Chief ...

KARACHI, PakistanThe governor of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday dissolved the provincial assembly, the state-run Pakistan Television reported.Governor Ghulam Ali, who represents the federal government, approved the dissolution of the 124-member Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan.Chief ...

#Pakistan News The move in Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab, is part of a bid to force early general elections. PTI spokesman Fawad Chaudry previously said the dissolutions were planned as "a huge pressure tactic." (pap.gov.pk) The provincial assembly in Pakistan's most populous province, Punjab, has been dissolved, in ...

#Pakistan News The development comes a day after Punjab's chief minister managed to secure a trust vote from members of the assembly. Punjab is the country's most populous province and makes up more than half of the country's population of 220 million. (Twitter/@HamzaAzhrSalam) Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, the chief minister ...