MARDAN, April 10: Gunmen opened fire on a polio team in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Mardan district, killing one policeman and injuring another on Wednesday. The police had resumed guarding the teams after an incident in February in which a policeman was shot dead while protecting a polio vaccination team on the outskirts of Mardan. As […]
LONDON, April 9: A British Pakistani politician was instrumental in paving the way for former President General (R) Pervez Musharraf to stand in the upcoming Pakistani elections from the northern district of Chitral. Chaudhry Sarfraz Anjum Kahlon, who is the former lord mayor of Cambridge and a loyal friend of All Pakistan Muslim League (APML)
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SLAMABAD, April 7: President Asif Ali Zardari has said that the behaviour of Returning Officers (ROs) and the Election Commission (ECP) in the the scrutiny of election candidates was inappropriate, DawnNews reported. He said that despite Ros and ECP’s behaviour he has chosen to stay quiet, so that the caretaker government can facilitate the elections
CHITRAL, April 6: Habitual of buying cheap new vehicles and drive them without paying any tax, public transporters here have opposed the government’s recent move to legalize the non-customs paid vehicles on the payment of a certain amount. The representatives of Terichmir Driver Union while opposing the customs duty told a press conference that Chitral
Dawn.com LAHORE, April 5: A leading Pakistani human rights watchdog has expressed alarm over recent “undesirable developments” in Pakistan, including what it describes as a “charade” in the name of scrutiny of nomination papers. “Those ‘managing’ the election affairs have embroiled the people in issues that are as irrelevant as they are unnecessary,” the Human
