Sunni Tehrik leader shot dead

The Pakistan Sunni Tehrik (PST) has demanded postponement of elections for one month. Talking to journalists on Wednesday, PST head Sarwat Ijaz Qadri said it was not possible to run the election campaign in an atmosphere of terrorism and ...

LAHORE, April 2: The Pakistan Sunni Tehreek on Tuesday fielded 183 candidates for various National and provincial assembly constituencies across the country. According to details, 48 candidates will contest for National Assembly seats, 62 for Punjab ...

LAHORE (APP): Pakistan Sunni Tehrik staged a protest demonstration against the Joseph Colony incident on Sunday. A large number of ST workers participated in the protest outside the Lahore Press Club. The protestors were carrying banners and ...

The "Naya Pakistan Plan", a document posted on the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf's special website created for the May 11 polls, lists six factors in its section on internal security that "drive terror and lawlessness in varying degrees". AFP These ...

At least 21 people were killed and 120 injured when twin blasts hit two Sunni mosques in Pakistan's northwest Malakand district ahead of the Friday prayers. Two bombs exploded almost simultaneously at about 2:00 p.m. (local time) in the Bazdara Bala ...

Countercurrents.org Pakistan's 2013 elections have spelled doom for all banned outfits as more than its 62 election candidates who vied for 70 seats failed to clinch even a single one out of total 849 seats of national and provincial assembly ...

The PTI was also able to get more than 30,000 votes in Lyari and MQM's headquarters in the FB Area, despite allegations of rigging. The party received more than 150,000 votes in Shah Faisal Town, Malir, Mehmoodabad and Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town. On the ...

SLAMABAD, May 14: Islamists could obtain only 4.72 per cent votes in the nine National Assembly seats of Rawalpindi district and the federal capital in the May 11 elections. Out of the 1.86 million votes polled for the two National Assembly seats of ...

Behind Nawaz Sharif’s ‘peace with India’ stance remain unanswered questions about his role in the Kargil conflict and his family’s links with the Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Jaish-e-Muhammad, says Ajai Shukla Pakistan’s army would have noted how distressingly unpredictable politics can be. In early 2000, having just been booted out as prime minister by his army chief, General Pervez Musharraf, Nawaz Sharif contemplated life in prison, a lenient sentence from complaisant ...