The kite, the scale and the lantern are frontrunners for NA-241

JUI-F leader Mullah Fazal ur-Rehman na.gov.pk The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), a slimmed-down version of an earlier alliance of Islamist parties, has been weakened by factional spats and the not-always happy experience of local power. Its leading ...

KARACHI: In 2013, the seat of NA-253 doesn't appear to be a sure thing for the Muttahida Qaumi Movement or the Jamaat-e-Islami, even though the former won in the 2008 elections and the latter in 2002. MQM's Syed Haider Abbas Rizvi won the 2008 ...

HYDERABAD: The past hostilities between the Pakistan Peoples Party and Muttahida Qaumi Movement have started resurfacing again as the day of election draws closer the PPP candidates have accused the MQM of having set the ground for rigging the ...

The trigger-happy Mr Nawaz Sharif of the 1990s who fired two army chiefs within a year seems to be taking great pains to project patience There have been four official coup détat in Pakistans history but no third term for a civilian head of the ...

The Awami National Party (ANP), the political legacy of "Frontier Gandhi" or Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, entered Elections 2013 with a huge anti-incumbency factor and corruption allegations, that were matching in scale, if not more, with its coalition ...

Countercurrents.org Imran Khans Pakistani Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) party is taking over the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) bordering Afghanistan. At this point it is necessary to dispel a couple of myths that already seem to have ...

islamabad - The PML-N has bagged the highest number of nearly 15 million votes followed by the PTI's over 7.6 million and PPP-P's around 6.9 million votes, as more than 46 million Pakistanis exercised their right to vote in the recently held general ...

MINGORA: After the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) won five provincial and two national assembly seats in Swat, locals have demanded two ministers be nominated from the district for the provincial cabinet. Swat was awarded the Science & ...

PESHAWAR: The foremost challenge lying ahead of many newly-elected MPAs of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) Assembly is the inexperience of parliamentary affairs. Many of these individuals have made it to the legislature for the first time and their ...