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• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 10:38 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 LIVE: Imran Khan’s party-backed independents pose tough challenge to Sharif’s PML-N

  Jailed ex-premier Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party-backed independents were Thursday posing a tough challenge to candidates from three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s party in the crucial Punjab province, according to initial trends of the general elections marred by sporadic violence.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 09:18 PM

  Pakistan mobile network being restored after day-long election blackout: govt

  Mobile phone services were being gradually restored across Pakistan on Thursday, the interior ministry said, after a day-long blackout during voting in general elections.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 08:07 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: PPP Karachi president shares video of poll presiding officer’s shocking claims

  PPP Karachi president, Senator Saeed Ghani has shared a video of a presiding officer’s shocking claims regarding the Pakistan parliamentary election on Thursday. In the video, the presiding officer is heard claiming that four ballot paper books were looted from his possession.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 07:31 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Balochistan to announce poll results this evening, informs Caretaker Information Minister

  Pakistan’s Balochistan Caretaker Information Minister Jan Achakzai said that the province will announce election results later in the evening on Thursday, Dawn reported.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 07:26 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Vote counting starts

  Counting of votes has started after the Pakistan parliamentary election on Thursday, reported news agency Reuters. Earlier, voting closed at 5 p.m on Thursday.

  During the election, nine people died in militant attacks across the country.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 06:42 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Voting concludes in Pakistan

  Voting has concluded in the Pakistan parliamentary election held on Thursday. A countrywide public holiday was declared to enable a total of 128,585,760 registered voters to cast their ballots, reported news agency PTI.

  Internet services were shut down in various parts of Pakistan during the election. Political parties have alleged rigging in the election marred by sporadic violence.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 06:20 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Nine dead in militant attacks

  While the Pakistan parliamentary election is being held on Thursday, militant attacks have claimed the lives of at least nine people, including two children, reported news agency Reuters. Thousands of troops are deployed on the streets and at polling stations across the country.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 04:47 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Pakistani politician Mohsin Dawar alleges Taliban took over polling station

  A Pakistani politician named Mohsin Dawar has written a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner of Pakistan on Thursday. Mohsin alleged that Taliban took over polling station in Tappi, North Waziristan. He also claimed that three female polling agents were attacked.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 04:24 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Political party in Pakistan shares video of alleged rigging

  A political party in Pakistan, Jamaat e Islami Pakistan has shared video of alleged rigging in the Pakistan parliamentary election on Thursday.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 04:04 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Economic challenge for next government

  The next government in Pakistan will have to provide solutions to grave economic challenges plaguing the country currently. The new government may have to seek a new bailout programme from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the current arrangement will expire in March.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:52 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Pakistan ex-PM Nawaz Sharif eyes majority win for his party

  Pakistan ex-PM Nawaz Sharif cast his vote in the eastern city of Lahore on Thursday. Talking to reporters, he emphasised the need of a “clear majority” win in Pakistan parliamentary election.

  “Don’t talk about a coalition government. It is very important for a government to get a clear majority…it should not be relying on others,” said Sharif as quoted by news agency Reuters.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 02:30 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Human Rights Council of Pakistan demands restoration of internet services

  The Human Rights Council of Pakistan has demanded restoration of mobile and internet services in the country amid the Pakistan parliamentary election on Thursday.

  “The government of Pakistan is shutting down mobile service and internet services in various cities of Pakistan. This is sad and cause for concern,” said the Human Rights Council of Pakistan as quoted by news agency PTI.

  “Provision of mobile service on voting day is a basic requirement in Pakistan. We request the Election Commission and the Supreme Court of Pakistan to take immediate notice of this issue. Restore mobile service in Pakistan,” it said.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 02:23 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Imran Khan’s party alleges police picked its poll agents

  Amid the Pakistan parliamentary election on Thursday, Imran Khan’s party alleged that the police picked its poll agents in several areas of the country’s Punjab province. The party alleged rigging in the elections, reported news agency PTI.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 02:03 PM

  Imran Khan’s party says its polling agents picked up by police in Punjab province

  The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, led by former Prime Minister Imran Khan, alleged on Thursday that polling in various areas of Pakistan’s Punjab province commenced without the presence of its agents. Some of these agents were reportedly detained by the police, purportedly to facilitate rigging in the elections.

  PTI candidates are participating in the polls independently after the Supreme Court upheld the decision of the election commission to revoke the party’s iconic election symbol, the cricket ‘bat’. The PTI has accused the police of dismantling its polling camps.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 01:49 PM

  Four dead in a bomb blast, shooting incident in northwest Pakistan

  Police said that four police officials were killed in a bomb blast and shooting incident in northwest Pakistan, Reuters reported.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 01:36 PM

  Pakistan Election LIVE: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan casts vote through postal ballot

  According to sources cited by Pakistan-based Dawn, former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and several other incarcerated political leaders have cast their votes via postal ballots from Adiala Jail.

  Among those who have utilised mail voting are former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid, and former information minister Fawad Chaudhry.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 01:29 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 LIVE: PPP’s Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on suspension of mobile services

  Mobile phone services must be restored immediately across the country have asked my party to approach both ECP and the courts for this purpose: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 01:00 PM

  Pakistan Election 2024 LIVE: Voting underway

  Polling underway in Pakistan; visual from a polling booth in Peshawar.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:59 AM

  Pakistan Election 2024 LIVE: Candidates, voting process | Explained

  Pakistan is set to vote on Thursday, February 8, in the widely anticipated general elections, which will lead to the formation of a new government relieving the crises-ridden country for the next five years.

  Being a parliamentary democracy, Pakistan is set to vote in the federal legislature or the House Assembly and four state legislatures. A total of 44 political parties comprising 5,121 candidates are contesting in the federal legislature, whereas 12,695 candidates in state legislatures.

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• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:32 AM

  Pakistanis say vote matters despite alleged election rigging

  Pakistanis turning out early for Thursday’s election said they believe their votes count, despite allegations of rigging in the nation’s most fractious poll in recent history.

  AFP

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:09 AM

  Pakistan election LIVE: Pakistan votes amid rising violence and attacks

  Despite the harsh winter conditions and the looming threat of violence, Pakistanis turned out to vote for a new parliament on Thursday, following twin bombings that resulted in at least 30 fatalities, marking the deadliest election-related violence prior to the contentious polling.

  To ensure security and minimize disruptions, tens of thousands of security personnel were deployed at polling stations, and mobile phone services were suspended nationwide. The suspension of mobile services was implemented by the Interior Ministry to maintain law and order, with no specified duration for its lifting. The bombings, which occurred at two election offices in the volatile southwestern Baluchistan province, left over 30 dead and more than two dozen injured, casting a shadow over the electoral process.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 10:45 AM

  One security personnel killed in attack on vehicle in Pakistan’s Dera Ismail Khan

  A security personnel lost his life in an assault targeting a security forces vehicle in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, on Thursday. The vehicle, reportedly on election duty, was attacked by assailants, as per sources cited by Samaa TV. The incident occurred in the Kot Azam area amidst ongoing voting for national and state assemblies. Over 17,000 candidates are participating in the elections, where voters will select 266 candidates for the Pakistan National Assembly, who will subsequently elect the next prime minister through a majority vote, as reported by Dawn.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 10:13 AM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Imran’s PTI hits out at caretaker govt for suspending mobile services

  Pakistanis, the illegitimate, fascist regime has blocked cell phone services across Pakistan on polling day.

  You are all requested to counter this cowardly act by removing passwords from your personal WiFi accounts, so anyone in the vicinity can have access to internet on this extremely important day.

  We are all in this together & we will win together!: PTI on X (formerly Twitter)

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 09:41 AM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Here are some key numbers

  Interested in facts and figures? Check out the 2024 Pakistan general election in numbers. Read more

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 09:15 AM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Voters seen at a booth in Islamabad

  Voting underway at a polling booth in Islamabad, the Capital of Pakistan.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 08:57 AM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Mobile services suspended across country

  The country’s interior ministry has ‘temporarily suspended’ mobile services across the nation in view of ‘deteriorating security situation’ amid national polls, reports Dawn.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 08:35 AM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Polling opens for 266 National Assembly seats

  The polling began at 8 am local time and is being held to elect 266 members in the country’s 336-seat National Assembly. The remaining 70 seats are reserved for women and non-Muslims.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 08:10 AM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Indian security expert on pre-poll unrest in Pakistan

  The attacks have been happening for over a week now… it’s particularly bad in Balochistan because there’s resistance in both- the Baloch areas as well as the Pashtun areas. People don’t identify themselves in the elections… There are speculations that these attacks might be false flag attacks planned and executed by the Pakistan Army, speculating the fact that they do not want elections to be held in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. In KP, there were assumptions that Imran Khan’s PTI might do better. Some of these attacks will ensure that the turn-out at polling stations is low which means that voting goes as per the Army’s plan: Sushant Sareen, defence expert

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 07:47 AM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Deadly blasts in Balochistan on poll eve

  At least 26 people died, while more than two dozen were injured in the province of Balochistan, where a bomb exploded at the office of an independent candidate in the Pishin district, while a second blast took place in Qilla Saifullah, near the Afghan border.

  The first attack claimed 14 lives, and the second, at least 10.

• Thu, 08 Feb 2024 07:30 AM

  Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: 12th general elections today

  The polling is scheduled to open at 8 am local time (8:30 am IST). Around 13 million (13 crore) Pakistanis – almost half of the nuclear-armed nation’s population (241 million/24.1 crore) – are eligible to vote.