Pakistan

Mostly women and children were among 30 people who died in the rain-related incidents in the scenic Swat Valley, the Khyber district, and elsewhere in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Sharif, 72, first served as prime minister in 2022 at the head of a strikingly similar alliance which ousted Imran Khan, a former cricket star.

Voting in the National Assembly to elect the new prime minister would be held on Sunday, according to the National Assembly Secretariat.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the top electoral body headed by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja.

The IHC division bench, comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, will hear the appeals on Monday.

Maryam, 50, is also senior vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party. She is considered to be the political heir of PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif.

On February 17, a senior Pakistani bureaucrat alleged that the chief election commissioner and the chief justice were involved in “poll-rigging” in the elections and resigned from his post.

Though independents backed by jailed Imran Khan's PTI won the maximum no of seats in Parliament, PML-N and PPP announced they would form a coalition govt.

This was the fifth round of discussions between PML-N and PPP coordination committees to end the political stalemate after the February 8 elections resulted in a hung Parliament.

Former Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha on Saturday alleged that the candidates who were “losing” the elections “were made to win” in the city. He claimed that 13 candidates from Rawalpindi were forcefully declared winners.

The protesters chanted slogans, demanding the restoration of their “stolen mandate”. They called for rectified results based on the vote count as per Form 45, prepared at polling stations under the watch of political parties' polling…

The Taliban have barred women from most areas of public life and stopped girls from going to school beyond the sixth grade as part of harsh measures they imposed after taking power in 2021.

The source said that since Shehbaz Sharif, 72, was a favourite of the military, Nawaz Sharif had to be sidelined by one excuse or another at the end of the day.

Four political parties, including the Balochistan National Party (Mengal), National Party (NP), Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party (PKMAP), and Hazara Democratic Party (HDP), have been jointly holding protests since Saturday in Quetta and other…

Despite being forced to contest as independents, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf-backed candidates clinched a surprise victory, securing 92 seats in Pakistan's 266-member National Assembly.

Shehbaz Sharif is nominated for the slot of prime minister while Maryam Nawaz, daughter of Nawaz Sharif, is nominated for the slot of chief minister of Punjab province.

Two independent members of Pakistan's National Assembly have joined PML-N, led by Nawaz Sharif, following a hung parliament. This decision adds to PML-N's coalition efforts after another independent candidate aligned with PTI joined the…

Hafiz Naeemur Rehman said that he took the unusual step to highlight the alleged rigging in many constituencies during the February 8 polls.

Amidst allegations of vote rigging and inordinate delay in announcing the results, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Sunday published the results of 264 out of 265 contested seats in the 266-member National Assembly.

Springing a surprise, independents backed by jailed former prime minister Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party won the lion's share of 101 seats in the National Assembly in Thursday's election.