Trends - General Elections 2024

Pakistan

LHC grants post-arrest bail to Elahi

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday granted post-arrest bail to PTI president and former Punjab Chief...

Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am

Pakistan

Another round of talks today: Dar

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) senior leader Ishaq Dar Wednesday said the two committees of the...

Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am

Pakistan

Formation of govt: First PPP-PML(N) meeting held

ISLAMABAD: The first meeting of the committees comprising the leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and...

Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am

Pakistan

New coalition echoes same old problems

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s newly declared coalition government echoes the 2022 alliance that ousted Imran Khan, ...

Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am

Pakistan

JUI-F chief, too, rejects election results

ISLAMABAD: The Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F), Wednesday, while rejecting the election results has announced...

Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am

Pakistan

Balochistan PA: ECP’s response to bill aimed at increasing number of general seats sought

ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary body on Wednesday sought the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)’s response on a bill...

Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am

Pakistan

Petitions against ECP: IHC reserves its verdict

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC), Wednesday, reserved its verdict in three separate petitions challenging...

Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am

Pakistan

NA-214 Tharparkar: highest voter turnout of almost 80pc recorded

ISLAMABAD: National Assembly’s seat in Sindh — NA-214 Tharparkar — recorded highest voter turnout of almost 80...

Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am

Opinion

Mr Market’s periscope

Mr Market knows best, goes the old saying, so perhaps its best to look at the wild swings at the stock exchange to...

Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am

Opinion

‘Latest IMF projections’

This is apropos a Business Recorder op-ed “Latest IMF projections” carried by the newspaper on Tuesday. The...

Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am

Editorials

Another weak govt!

EDITORIAL: After days of ambiguity regarding what shape the government at the centre takes, and with rigging...

Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am

Print

Moody’s speaks of elevated political uncertainty

Prolonged delays in formation of govt will increase policy and political uncertainty at a time when it faces very challenging macroeconomic conditions

Updated 15 Feb, 2024 11:56am

Editorials

Timely intervention

EDITORIAL: Whatever possessed the caretaker government to promulgate an ordinance seeking to “neutralise the ...

Published 15 Feb, 2024 05:39am

Print

Textile exporters blame govt for ‘economic disaster’

KARACHI: The interim rule has again drawn severe criticism for “intruding” into the economic matters that left the...

Updated 15 Feb, 2024 08:42am

Pakistan

Elections 2024: voter turnout at 47.6%, 60.6mn people exercised right to vote on Feb 8, says FAFEN

Unlike 2018 elections, none of the National or Provincial Assemblies’ constituencies recorded female turnout less than 10% of total polled votes

Published 14 Feb, 2024 09:51pm

Pakistan

Maulana Fazlur Rehman rejects election results, refuses to join govt

Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Wednesday rejected the results of the February 8...

Updated 14 Feb, 2024 09:00pm

Pakistan

Nawaz Sharif has not quit politics, will lead his govts in Centre, Punjab: Maryam

Says in the next five years Nawaz will actively participate in politics

Updated 14 Feb, 2024 10:30pm

Pakistan

JI demands suspension of polls results

KARACHI: Hafiz Naeemur Rehman, the Karachi Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) on Tuesday demanded Election Commission of...

Published 14 Feb, 2024 02:34am

Pakistan

Expert explains how and when President can summon NA session

ISLAMABAD: The President of Pakistan is constitutionally mandated to summon the national assembly on the advice of...

Published 14 Feb, 2024 02:34am

Pakistan

Punjab cabinet decides to give away e-bikes to students

LAHORE: The 40th session of the provincial cabinet, convened under the chair of Chief Minister Punjab Mohsin Naqvi...

Published 14 Feb, 2024 02:34am

Pakistan

LHC dismisses pleas against win of Nawaz, others

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday dismissed the petitions against the victory of former prime minister...

Published 14 Feb, 2024 02:34am

Pakistan

PML-N challenges ‘independents’ to ‘show majority and form govt’

LAHORE: Announcing that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) will happily accept the independents, either...

Published 14 Feb, 2024 02:34am

Opinion

It’s about time all parties buried the hatchet

Following his meeting with the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan yesterday, a beaming PTI ...

Published 14 Feb, 2024 02:34am

Pakistan

CCPO reviews performance of Civil Lines, Cantt Divisions

LAHORE: A meeting convened to assess the performance of Civil Lines and Cantt Divisions was chaired by Capital City...

Published 14 Feb, 2024 02:34am

Pakistan

IK warns against any ‘misadventure’

ISLAMABAD: The jailed former prime minister and founding chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Tuesday ...

Published 14 Feb, 2024 02:34am

Pakistan

PDM 2.0 coalition govt in the offing?

ISLAMABAD: Former allies including Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Muttahida...

Updated 14 Feb, 2024 10:21am

Editorials

A controversial exercise

EDITORIAL: The inadequacies of our perennially under fire electoral system have once again become a topic of much...

Published 14 Feb, 2024 02:34am

Pakistan

Zardari calls for 'reconciliation' as PML-N, IPP, PPP, MQM and PML-Q join forces to form govt

Shehbaz Sharif says PML-N Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz will be the party's nominee for Punjab chief minister
Zardari says the reconciliation process should include PTI

Published 13 Feb, 2024 10:43pm

Pakistan

Bilawal says PPP will support PML-N’s candidate for PM but won’t join cabinet

Says his party back incoming government on 'issue to issue' basis

Updated 13 Feb, 2024 10:27pm

Pakistan

PTI announces alliance with Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen in centre, Punjab

Raoof Hasan says the party will form a coalition with the Jamaat-i-Islami in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for reserved seats

Updated 13 Feb, 2024 09:39pm