By Wajih Ahmad Sheikh in Dawn, October 18th, 2023LAHORE: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is slated to land in Lahore on Oct 21 is likely to face a host of legal challenges before embarking on his election campaign to rev up the PML-N’s prospects in the lead-up to elections due in Jan next year. According to a member of the PML-N supreme leader’s legal team, the elder Sharif’s legal complication would not require lengthy…
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by Waseem Shamsi in Dawn, Sept 13th, 2023• Fazl rules out alliance with PPP, says JUI-F values ‘loyalty’SUKKUR: Building steam on the campaign trail, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday raised objections to the lack of a level playing field in the run-up to general elections, saying there was a need to do away with outdated methods of running the country. In a response to a question during his visit to Sukkur,…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, September 1st, 2023QUETTA: Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) President Sardar Akhtar Mengal has announced that his party would contest the upcoming elections on the slogan of “recovery of missing persons”. He lamented that despite raising the issue at all forums, nothing was done by the government to resolve it. Speaking at a seminar, organised by the ‘Voice for the Baloch Missing Persons’ to observe the International Day of the Victims of…
By Murtaza Ali Shah in The News, August 20, 2023LONDON: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has been rocked by a fundraising scandal after a London-based PTI group announced a £1 million legal fundraising campaign while PTI’s Pakistan legal team denounced the UK team for minting money in the name of Imran Khan’s release effort. On Friday, solicitor Rashad Yaqoob told Geo News that from his prison cell, Imran Khan had…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 15, 2023With an objective to attract the new generation to the major pro-monarch force of the country, Rastriya Prajatantra Party has started a ‘Nabin [New] RPP’ campaign. However, political analysts say attracting youths to the rightist force could be challenging. The RPP led by Rajendra Lingden, who defeated party veteran Kamal Thapa to become its president from the general convention in December 2021, has won 14…
report in The Daily Star, May 26, 2023It all happened quietly. There were hardly any polling agents for Zaida Khatun. Even her supporters could barely be seen in the largest city corporation of the country. Even during the campaign, her posters were rarely seen..But in Gazipur City Corporation polls, Zaida has won defeating ruling Awami League mayor nominee Azmat Ullah Khan by 16,197 votes. Unofficial results show that Zaida bagged 2,38,934 votes while her nearest…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, May 24, 2023Against the backdrop of recent electoral setbacks, a section of the Nepali Congress leaders is launching a nationwide campaign to shore up the grand old party. The party’s youth leaders are planning to traverse the country with the Nepali Congress Rupantaran Abhiyan (transformation campaign) to unite cadres across the country and reconnect with voters. The leaders said they have taken serious note of the party’s poor…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 11, 2023Controversial businessman Durga Prasai is known for his strong linkage with the country’s top political leadership, including Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli. Now, it appears, he has deserted these communist leaders as he is now seen running ‘a mega campaign to save the nation, nationality, religion, culture and citizens’. Restoration of monarchy, Hindu nation and abolition of federalism are…
report in Prothom Alo , Dec 22, 2022Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal (ML) on Wednesday welcomed the BNP-announced 27-point programme for ‘the repair of the state’ and termed the move as time-befitting, reports UNB. In a statement, signed by Kazi Mustafa Kamal, a member of the party’s Politburo, however, said no provision was made regarding the poor condition of the country’s rivers and the outcry of 30 million people on the banks of the Teesta River for…