LAHORE - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has won the by-election on two Senate seats from Punjab. PTI’s Waleed Iqbal won the polls on the general seat while Seemi Aizdi seized reserved seat for women. The two seats from Punjab had fallen vacant after Sadia Abbasi and Haroon Akhter Khan of the ...

KARACHI - Unofficial and initial results show that PTI candidate Aftab Hussain Siddiqui leads with 30, 468 votes against MQM’s Sadiq Iftikhar who has bagged 13, 478 votes in NA-247, Karachi. Qaisar Nazamani of PPP is third with 11, 069 votes. In PK-71, ANP candidate Salahuddin has emerged victor ...

ISLAMABAD - The by-polls on 35 constituencies across the country will be held tomorrow (Sunday) as over 9.9 million ballot papers have been printed for the purpose. Over 100 candidates, including some big names of politics, are contesting for 35 national and provincial assembly seats in these ...

MULTAN - The Election Commission of Pakistan has disqualified Muhammad Salman, an independent-turned-Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf lawmaker Muhammad Salman, who defeated the incumbent foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in the last general elections for PP-217 seat of the Punjab Assembly. The decision ...

LAHORE - Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz president Shehbaz Sharif repeated calls for the constitution of a commission to look into the electoral 'rigging' citing Prime Minister Imran Khan's promise in this regard. 'Imran Khan had himself called for a parliamentary commission to investigate the rigging ...

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would start receiving the nomination papers from candidates willing to contest elections on the vacant National Assembly (NA) and provincial assembly seats, from today. By-elections will be held countrywide on October 14, according to the ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader, Asad Qaiser was sworn in as the 21st Speaker of National Assembly after being elected to the post on Wednesday. Qaiser was elected as Speaker of the Lower Chamber of the Parliament after 330 lawmakers exercised their vote through secret ballot. Qaiser ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court has issued notices to former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) DG Lieutenant General Asad Durrani and former army chief General Mirza Aslam Beg in the high-profile Asghar Khan case. The top court has also fixed the case for hearing ...

ISLAMABAD - Finalizing its nominations for the crucial administrative positions, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has nominated Asad Qaiser to be the candidate for the Speaker of the National Assembly. Revealing the names to occupy top positions in provinces, PTI's central leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi ...

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has notified the final results of the General Elections 2018, however, results of a few constituencies have not been issued for various reasons including the litigation. According to the ECP declaration, the results of all five constituencies ...

ISLAMABAD – The caretaker government in center seeks Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan to change his schedule to take oath as the country’s 21st elected prime minister. Interim law minister Ali Zafar while talking to an English daily said that caretaker PM Nasirul Mulk and he ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan finalised the name of party leader and former KP minister Atif Khan on Tuesday for the seat of chief minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Former CM KP Pervez Khattak has been lobbying for the position and as a substitute and he has decided that party ...

ISLAMABAD - Ending his 22 years long struggle in the fierce political landscape, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has said that he will take oath as prime minister on August 11. According to Radio Pakistan, Khan shared the date of oath taking ceremony while talking to the newly ...

LAHORE - As many as four independent candidates who won the recently concluded elections on provincial level formally joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on Saturday. The entrants include Bashrat Randhawa, Basharat Gillani, Haneef Patafi and Hussain Jahanian Gardezi who called on Pakistan ...

ISLAMABAD - It has been over 30 hours since the polling for the General Election 2018 closed but the Election Commission of Pakistan has released around 95 percent of results so far. According to official results, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is on the top with 110 seats in National Assembly, ...

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court dismissed on Tuesday Awami Muslim League (AML) chief Sheikh Rasheed's petition against postponement of the NA-60 poll. A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar heard Rasheed's plea but dismissed his arguments and ordered to delay ...