Tag: Elections roundup
Elections roundup: An end to electioneering
It has perhaps been the deadliest election campaign in Pakistan’s history. Despite the TTP’s anti-ANP campaign of 2013, in terms of sheer body count,...
Elections roundup: The unfortunate need for Section 73
When the Election Act 2017 was drafted, the writers would have had in the back of their minds that Section 73 was there in...
Election roundup: Final frontier
Even as the League fights it out on all frontiers, they seem to have deployed their final force, with their senators coming out and...
Elections roundup: Shouting fire in a crowded theatre
DONKEY HATE SPEECH:
Times are strange when you’re five days away from election day and what might soon be the largest party in parliament has...
Elections roundup: The calm before the storm
We are officially less than a week away from the Election Day, and of all the politicians it is Bilawal Bhutto Zardari who is...
Elections roundup: Take care caretakers!
There were tremors in the country as the Pakistani rupee lost 5.7 percent of its value as markets opened on Monday, with the rupee...
Elections roundup: Deja vu
In the entire hullabaloo surrounding the returning of Sharifs, one piece of news relegated to the kiddie table was Humayun Akhtar Khan joining Pakistan...
Elections roundup: Carnage in Mastung
--Defiance in Lahore
The dust had barely settled from the blast on former KP chief minister Akram Durrani’s convoy that there was a much deadlier...
Election roundup: Brace for impact
Some would like to call the clouds that engulfed Lahore on Thursday ominous, in truth they were little more than a small spat of...
Elections roundup: Another election, another Bilour
It was in a sea of red caps, teary eyes and defiant slogans that the ANP’s Haroon Bilour was given his last rites and...
Elections Roundup: All’s well that ends well?
The big news on Tuesday was the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General (DG) Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor assuring the populace that the military...
Elections roundup: MMA in shambles and manifestos out at last
The grand hopes of a conservative alliance are now looking more shattered than ever before. The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal is falling apart. New reports have...
Elections roundup: Plans in motion
As inauspicious as the day may be, Mian Nawaz has announced he will be landing in Pakistan on Friday the thirteenth.
The former prime minister...
Election roundup: The lion’s last roar?
The enemy of my enemy. . .
The dust is beginning to settle, well, as much as it can settle with the Sharifs still...
Elections roundup: Awam ki Adalat is in session
There was always going to be a conviction. That was something few were doubting. What the bookmakers were interested in was what the sentence...
Elections roundup: Out with it already!
The ifs and the buts finally made an entry as the good grace that had been observed in the wake of Begum Kulsoom Nawaz’s...
Elections roundup: It’s a date!
The polls are nearing and the political temperature in the country is in flux, but not because of the mass rallies and charged speeches...
