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February 8 polls hit a snag after LHC ruling

by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, Dec 15th, 2023• ECP stops trainings of election staff; official says schedule not feasible without ROs• PTI demands poll schedule ‘within 24 hours’, seeks election supervisors from judiciary• PML-N says PTI didn’t question appointment of bureaucrats in 2018 polls; PPP says won’t tolerate delays ISLAMABAD: A day after a Lahore High Court order suspended a notification by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) regarding the appointment of returning officers…

Nawaz hopes people’s verdict will back PML-N in February 8 polls

by Mubashir Hassan in The Nation, Dec 15, 2023LAHORE – The PML-N supremo Mian Nawaz Sharif Thursday ex­pressed his optimism that peo­ple would back his party in the upcoming general elections to alleviate themselves from the troubles they had endured as a consequence of his political per­secution in the last five years. “The people themselves serve as the court, and hope­fully, they will pronounce their judgment on February 8”, he said in his maiden televised…

Nawaz, Fazl renew pledge to face rivals on Feb 8 together

by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, December 5th, 2023LAHORE: JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Monday held a second meeting with PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif in two weeks, where both pledged to move ahead together to take on their rivals in the Feb 8 polls. The PML-N is largely banking on JUI-F in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which is considered a stronghold of Imran Khan’s PTI, and believes its position will be stronger in Balochistan if the JUI-F…