report in Dawn, December 26th, 2023MANSEHRA: The Pakistan Peoples Party has approached the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl for seat adjustment in the Feb 8 elections to two national and five provincial assembly seats here. “The PPP recently contacted us through its provincial general secretary, Shujah Salim Khan, with a request for seat adjustment here but we have yet to respond to it,” JUI-F provincial deputy emir Hidayatullah Shah told reporters on Monday. He said the PPPwanted seat…
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report in Prothom Alo, Dec 17, 2023The acting chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Movement (BNM), Shah Muhammad Abu Zafar, has said they joined the election with the assurance of a free and fair election. If the election does not seem free and fair or they do not see an electoral environment, the BNM will pull out of the electoral race. The BNM chief made the statement while talking to the media at Madhukhali of Faridpur…
by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee in TheDaily Star, Dec 11, 2023A crucial meeting between the Awami League and its 14-party allies ended last night without any concrete decisions on seat sharing. At the meeting, held at the AL organising secretary Mirza Azam’s office in parliament, participants could not reach a consensus over the withdrawal of “AL independents” who would compete against AL partners. Frustrated by what they said was the AL dilly-dallying over resolving the seat-sharing…
By Ali Raza in The News, Dec 11, 2023LAHORE: Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP) has prepared a list of constituencies of National and Punjab Assembly where they want to field their candidates under a possible seat adjustment with the PMLN. Sources claimed the IPP’s committee consisting of Ishaq Khakwani, Aun Chaudhry and Nauman Langriyal has prepared the list of candidates, which will be given to the PMLN’s committee on Monday (today). According to different media reports, IPP…
Report in Dwn, November 13th, 2023LAHORE/GUJRAT: Senior leader of PML-Q Chaudhry Shafay Hussain says his party is not being merged into any other political entity. In a statement issued in Lahore on Sunday, the former federal minister in the PDM government said his party would maintain its separate identity instead of merging with the PML-N. However, both the parties could strike seat adjustments in the general election, he said. Shafay added that the PML-Q candidates…
by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, Oct 31st, 2023.ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif started on Monday formally calling the shots as he summoned a high-level meeting of the party to deliberate on the ongoing political situation, upcoming general elections and resumption of his political activities after returning to Pakistan. Party officials revealed that the three-time former premier will hold a PML-N meeting on October 31 (today) in Pakistan after a gap…
by Rahmeen Khan in The Express Tribune, Sept 16, 2023LAHORE: The Pakistan People’s Party has thrown its weight behind Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, leaving little doubt about whose opinion prevailed within the party, two PPP leaders familiar with the outcome of the Central Executive Committee (CEC) meeting revealed. Talking to The Express Tribune, they said that former president Zardari whose position regarding economy first and elections later, was dubbed as his personal opinion by his…
by Arun Bikash Dey in The Daily Star, Mar 10, 2023Another accident occurred at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila yesterday, claiming one life. But such accidents, and the injuries and deaths that accompany them, are nothing new there. In the past 18 years, 251 workers have been killed in accidents at shipbreaking yards. According to experts and rights activists, frequent accidents have been occurring at these sites due to the “sheer negligence” of…