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Senate election controversy

HARDLY any election in Pakistan has been free of controversy. This includes Senate elections. The recent presidential election was a rare exception....

08.04.2024 40

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Pak-US ties and the letter that finally arrived

https://arab.news/yyxf2 Less than a month after Shehbaz Sharif was sworn in as the 24th Prime Minister of Pakistan, he received a letter from US...

04.04.2024 10

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Addressing poll disputes

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...

24.03.2024 80

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Caretaker system’s future

THE national sentiment seems to be strongly opposed to the continuation of the current constitutional arrangement of appointing caretaker governments...

09.03.2024 100

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A matter of form

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...

25.02.2024 80

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Will instability be Pakistan’s political hallmark?

20.02.2024 20

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Delay in election results

ELECTIONS results are generally a contentious affair in Pakistan. Although the first general election in 1970 is considered to have been relatively...

17.02.2024 70

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Candidates for Election 2024

NOW that the final list of contesting candidates has been released by the Election Commission of Pakistan, it has emerged that an unprecedented number...

28.01.2024 100

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How personalities overshadow key issues in Pakistani elections? 

https://arab.news/p87pe Issues are generally of secondary importance in Pakistani elections which are usually dominated by debate around...

02.01.2024 30

Arab News Pakistan

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Rehabilitating Nawaz

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...

24.12.2023 50

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How is politics funded in Pakistan?

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...

04.12.2023 200

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Imran’s exit as party head and its political fallout for Pakistan 

https://arab.news/44mff Imran Khan’s party – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) – is facing yet another grave legal and political crisis after...

01.12.2023 20

Arab News Pakistan

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Scrutinising intra-party polls

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,...

26.11.2023 50

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Level playing field?

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...

19.11.2023 50

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In Pakistan, the revival of student unions could transform political culture

https://arab.news/zaj9z When the highest decision-making syndicate of one of Pakistan’s top higher education institutions, Quaid-e-Azam University...

13.11.2023 20

Arab News Pakistan

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The making of manifestos

THIS is the season when political parties generally produce their election manifestos. Over the past many elections, this has been more a ritual than...

12.11.2023 50

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Census and election

I WAS surprised a few months ago when some otherwise very knowledgeable persons, well versed in the law and the electoral process, criticised the...

22.10.2023 100

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Election time and another homecoming for Nawaz Sharif

https://arab.news/846ft In all likelihood, three-time former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif will land in Pakistan on Saturday after four...

20.10.2023 40

Arab News Pakistan

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Pakistan’s coming elections and the economy

https://arab.news/mnjbv Uncertainty about the upcoming general election in Pakistan has somewhat subsided after the Election Commission announced...

03.10.2023 70

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Excluding party leaders

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...

01.10.2023 70

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Electoral gender gap

THE good news is that the gender gap among registered voters is narrowing with every new release of the electoral rolls. The latest registered...

24.09.2023 200

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Strong international implications of Pakistan’s deferred elections

https://arab.news/yk449 Despite the fact that the National Assembly and Provincial Assemblies of two Pakistani provinces Sindh and Balochistan were...

20.09.2023 70

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Dismissing the Constitution

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...

09.09.2023 100

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