The ruling party has brought criminals inside the counting centre to help their candidates win by rigging the counting.... The Congress party managed to secure 2, 022 seats thus far.... The fate of 2.06 lakh candidates contesting for 73, 887 seats was decided during the elections. Also Read: Bengal Panchayat polls: No info on sensitive booths despite requests, claims BSF However, the voting day was marred by widespread violence, incidents of ballot paper looting, and rigging....

state administration.... " If need be, I will sit on dharna outside the Raj Bhavan," she said

AS the political landscape of Pakistan sizzles with heat and tension, here is the picture it is presenting today. The coalition government has decided in principle that it will not opt for early elections.... In the government’s calculation, pushing the elections into next year will provide them greater options to deal with the threat posed by the PTI. These options to deal with the PTI include the ploy to tire him out.... The logic is that it will be difficult for Khan to sustain the momentum

ALL eyes are on the thousands of Tehreek-i-Labbaik activists camped out in Wazirabad, waiting for instructions from their leaders to continue on to Islamabad.... On Friday, hundreds of Punjab Rangers personnel were deployed at two main points along the route to push them back.... So far, at least four policemen have been martyred and around 250 injured in violent clashes with the marchers as law-enforcement personnel tried to stop them proceeding towards the capital....

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday vociferously condemned the conviction of prominent Hurriyat leader Yasin Malik by an Indian court in a fictitious terrorism case. Meanwhile, the Senate passed a resolution urging the international community to force India to drop all fabricated charges against all political leaders of India-held Kashmir( IHK), including Mr Malik, and ensure their safety and well-being.On the other hand, Mushaal Malik, the wife of Yasin Malik, held a press confer

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan( CJP) Qazi Faez Isa on Wednesday constituted a committee of judges on case management that will also determine the fate of complaints against judges, pending before the Supreme Judicial Council( SJC). The committee, which will also include representatives of premier bars, namely the Pakistan Bar Council( PBC) and the Supreme Court Bar Association( SCBA), has been tasked with coming up with guidelines on how to clear a whopping backlog of 57, 000 cases pending

FEAR tactics have never worked in the past, and most likely will not this time either.... It is unclear why the PML-N feels unleashing violence will help it regain ground over the resurgent PTI.... After initially signalling it would allow the march to proceed, its policy significantly hardened after a Monday meeting attended by the prime minister and his elder brother from London....

THE TLP threat refuses to abate because every government insists on mishandling it by combining ineptitude with lack of will.... Earlier this month the TLP leadership mobilised its rank and file to move towards Islamabad because it said the government had reneged on its agreement.... The Punjab Police failed yet again to disperse the crowds and stop them from pushing ahead like an organised group....

Mr Qureshi has asked these questions in a hand-written letter titled “ Where is the federal government?... “ Some of us are silently suffering in jails, should the silent majority suffer as well?... ” he asked. Published in Dawn, December 10th, 2024....

ONLY in Pakistan do we express outrage against the expected.... And the expected is not just the agreement but the near certainty that some of the incarcerated leaders will be let go and the ban on the party overturned.... The zarai( sources) are never sworn to secrecy. But what else were we expecting than what has been leaked so far?...