MIANWALI: The convoy of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Aila Malik was attacked with bullets in Dhook Miyani area of Minawali on Friday, injuring three of her guards, media reported. Aila Malik survived the attack, while her guards have b...
KARACHI: Unknown armed men on Friday shot dead a Muhajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) candidate in Landhi area of the metropolis, media reported. A party spokesman said that armed men shot dead Shakil Ahmed, a party candidate for Sindh Assembly constit...
PESHAWAR: 22,000 army soldiers have been deployed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including Peshawar to maintain law and order situation during poll process on May 11, media reported. According to details, troop have been deployed which would perform t...
QUETTA: Frontier Constabulary (FC) on Friday seized explosive-laden vehicle and unearthed an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) manufacturing company in Pishin, media reported. According to the spokesman, FC conducted raid in Saranan refugee cam...
LOWER DIR: The Pakistan People’s Party and the Jamaat-I-Islami have entered an agreement to bar women from casting their votes in Low Dir, media reported. Khyber Pakhtunkhuwa interim Information Minister Musarrat Qadeem said that a complaint h...
KARACHI: An hour after the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) announced to suspend mobile phone service across Sindh, it has withdrawn the notification to this effect, media reported. The decision was made on the eve of Pakistan’s histo...
ISLAMABAD: The leader of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Barrister Masood Kausar claimed on Friday that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and caretaker government have failed to organize free, fair and impartial elections in the country, medi...
ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Information Minister Arif Nizami has said that the military would be deployed at most sensitive polling stations on election day. Addressing a news conference after inaugurating Election Media Centre at Press Information D...
LAHORE: Interim Punjab Chief Minister Najam Sethi has said that a comprehensive security plan has been devised to hold free and fair election. Speaking at a meeting over law and order and security arrangements, he said that effective security ...
ISLAMABAD: Indian authorities have refused provide security to Pakistani devotees in Ajmer Sharif, media reported. Pakistan’s foreign office has stated that India had refused to provide security to the devotees, scheduled to visit Ajmer Sharif o...
THARPARKAR: Polling staff for 16 voting stations of NA-229 have refused to perform election duty owing to security concerns, media reported. The staff has demanded security at 16 polling stations, saying they could not go to voting stations with...
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan military’s top command, on the request of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), has deployed army personnel at most sensitive polling stations, media reported. ...
MULTAN: Former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has sought assistance of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for the recovery of his son, Ali Haider Gilani, media reported. Even after launching a sweeping investigation, the police have not yet ...
ISLAMABAD: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has changed the number of sensitive and most sensitive polling stations across the country, media reported. The number of most sensitive polling stations has been increased from 12,716 to 15,681 ...
PESHAWAR: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Friday warned the country's 86 million electorate not to vote in Saturday's landmark elections, telling them to keep away to save their lives. "We appeal to the people to stay away from polling stat...
KARACHI: The threat of Taliban attacks hangs over Pakistan's historic election, but not in some parts of the financial capital Karachi, where the militants hold sway after chasing secular parties away. A little over six months ago, what should ...
KARACHI: The Electronics Market Association has announced to keep the electronics markets closed today following the firing incident Thursday night when two traders were injured in Saddar area, media reported. According to the announcement, the trade...
QUETTA: Five persons were injured in an explosion near the office of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) located on Brewery Road on Friday here, media reported. Police said that some unknown armed persons hurled hand grenade on the office of the PPP candid...
MIRANSHAH: A blast occurred in a main market of Miranshah Friday, killing three persons and injuring eleven others, media reported. According to initial reports, three persons lost their lives and eleven others were injured when a blast hit the main ...
PESHAWAR/QUETTA: Attacks and bomb blasts targeting the election candidates across the country, especially in Quetta, Panjgur, Gawadar, Hangu and Peshawar continuing unabated, however, no loss of life took place, media reported. ANP election office wa...
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