Tag: Elections roundup
Election roundup: Damp campaigns and hanging up the rainboots
It was a particularly slow day on the election front, mostly because of the spat of bad weather that has hit many parts of...
Elections roundup: Lessons from Mexico City
After years of biding his time in the drudgery of electoral politics, Andrés Manuel López. better known as ‘Amlo’ has finally been swept into...
Elections roundup: Monsoon and polls this July
We’re finally into July and as the monsoon season kicks in, Imran Khan is riding a wave. Or at least that is what the...
Elections roundup: Friendship ended with Nisar, now PML-N is my best...
It seems the last straw has finally arrived. The proverbial final nail in the coffin. The closing of door. The parting of ways. Mian...
Elections roundup: PML-Shehbaz in the making?
PML-Shehbaz could soon be a reality as ECP has summoned N-League supreme leader Nawaz Sharif after an objection was raised over party’s registration under...
Elections roundup: Disqualifications and requalifications
The PTI’s Fawad Chaudhry managed to scrape by while another PML-N stalwart was sent packing as the string of disqualifications and requalifications of candidates...
Election Roundup: You’re out of order! This whole trial’s out of...
Legal experts are calling it unprecedented and a gross overstep of judicial jurisdiction. But however one wants to describe it, the ‘disqualification’ of former...
Elections roundup: ‘Akele na jana’
It was an almost American move from Mian Shehbaz Sharif. At an event during his election in Karachi, he walked up to a group...
Elections roundup: Lessons from Istanbul
With less than a month between Pakistan and the polls, there was another election in another part of the Muslim world filled with lessons...
Campaigns kick off
When people used to make fun of me, the people of Mianwali stood by me, said Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, while kicking...
Elections Roundup: Ladies and gentlemen we’ve got a Mexican standoff on...
Daggers were drawn, sparks flew, and barbs were traded between the PTI’s former general secretary and its vice chairman as Jehangir Tareen and Shah...
Elections roundup: Mush leaves Mush’s party high and dry
“Musharraf puts together grand coalition of 23 political parties, voters,” read a headline of The Dependent, the satirical publication of this paper, back when...
Elections Roundup: Leaving the league with a bang
Zaeem Qadri went off yesterday and he went off with a bang. At a chaotic looking presser held in Township Lahore, the now former...
Elections Roundup: ‘Not even in Pakistan, what to speak of London…’
--The jokes, of course, write themselves
With the announcement of the assets declared by candidates, those of Maryam Nawaz Sharif were also announced. As per...
Election roundup: Technical tribulations and trial by tribunals
Heads rolled as the ECP did away with the nominations of Former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, PTI Chairman Imran Khan, MQM-P head Farooq...
Elections Roundup: Insaafians in disarray
There was a letter to and a letter from the ECP on Monday, as the elections once again came back to take centre stage...
Elections roundup: Polling codes reminded
ECP has reminded the lengthy code of conduct for upcoming elections, asking the political parties, candidates and election agents to avoid maligning anyone on...