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Ahmed Bilal MehboobDawn |
NEARLY two months after polling day, there seems to be no sign that the controversy raging over the integrity of general election 2024 will subside...
THE national sentiment seems to be strongly opposed to the continuation of the current constitutional arrangement of appointing caretaker governments...
AT the centre of the raging controversy over the Feb 8 election results are two forms prescribed in Election Rules, 2017: Form-45 is the Result of the...
ELECTIONS results are generally a contentious affair in Pakistan. Although the first general election in 1970 is considered to have been relatively...
NOW that the final list of contesting candidates has been released by the Election Commission of Pakistan, it has emerged that an unprecedented number...
https://arab.news/p87pe Issues are generally of secondary importance in Pakistani elections which are usually dominated by debate around...
SINCE PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan on Oct 21, the process of dispensing justice to him in the plethora of cases he became entangled...
THE promised poll of Feb 8 is two months away. It is around this time that the collection and spending of funds by election candidates and political...
https://arab.news/44mff Imran Khan’s party – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) – is facing yet another grave legal and political crisis after...
THE Election Commission of Pakistan recently declared the intra-party elections held by the PTI on June 10, 2022, to be invalid because the party,...
IT is both fair and legitimate to demand a level playing field for the coming, and for that matter every, election. The PTI, being the aggrieved party...
https://arab.news/zaj9z When the highest decision-making syndicate of one of Pakistan’s top higher education institutions, Quaid-e-Azam University...
THIS is the season when political parties generally produce their election manifestos. Over the past many elections, this has been more a ritual than...
I WAS surprised a few months ago when some otherwise very knowledgeable persons, well versed in the law and the electoral process, criticised the...
https://arab.news/846ft In all likelihood, three-time former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif will land in Pakistan on Saturday after four...
https://arab.news/mnjbv Uncertainty about the upcoming general election in Pakistan has somewhat subsided after the Election Commission announced...
STRONG exception was taken by civil society, the media and at least one large political party to what the caretaker prime minister appears to have...
THE good news is that the gender gap among registered voters is narrowing with every new release of the electoral rolls. The latest registered...
https://arab.news/yk449 Despite the fact that the National Assembly and Provincial Assemblies of two Pakistani provinces Sindh and Balochistan were...
THIS is an extraordinary phase of Pakistan’s political life. None of the five directly elected legislatures are in place and both the federation and...