ISLAMABAD, Feb 14: President Pervez Musharraf has rejected opinion surveys conducted by foreign organisations and said opinions of 3,000 people cannot be taken as the opinion of 160 million people of the country. He asked foreign organisations and NGOs, especially those conducting such surveys not to “disturb the peace of this region. You are playing […]
KARACHI: Protesters burned a Danish flag in Karachi on Thursday in a show of anger over the reprinting of a caricature of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), witnesses said. Around 50 members of a hardline Islamic student group took to the streets after several Danish newspapers published the caricature that caused bloody riots in the Muslim world […]
MASTUNG (APP) – A powerful blast destroyed a joint election office of two independent candidates here in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. According to police official the bomb was planted near the joint election office of independent candidates, Agha Faisal Dawood and Mir Mujibur Rehman at main Mastung Road. The blast occurred around 3:30 […]
ISLAMABAD – Expressing its distress, Pakistan on Thursday condemned the reprinting of blasphemous cartoons in Danish and other European newspapers. In his comments, Foreign Office Spokesman, Muhammad Sadiq said, “We are in touch with the Danish authorities on this issue as it hurts the feelings of over one billion Muslims of the world.” He said, […]
ISLAMABAD: The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) has reached its full strength by deploying 31 short term observers (STO) on Wednesday, which brings the total number of the EU election observers to 112. EU Chief Observer Michael Gahler said that after the deployment of STOs, the mission would be able to cover more […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 13: The European Union has renewed its call for immediate release of political detainees, including judges and lawyers, “as an essential step in restoring confidence in the independence of the judiciary, rule of law and democratic process”. This would be an important step in creating an environment conducive to free and fair elections, […]
ISLAMABAD: The European Union (EU) on Wednesday urged Pakistani authorities to ensure that local government officials didn’t misuse state resources during the election campaign. According to a statement issued by the EU, the coalition has set up an election observation mission in Pakistan to offer an independent assessment of whether the elections are conducted in […]
SLAMABAD, Feb 12: Deployment of army troops for maintaining peace in different parts of the country during the elections began on Tuesday and the government declared over 19,000 polling stations ‘sensitive’ and imposed a complete ban on carrying and display of weapons in the vicinity of the stations. “Army has started mobilising and moving to […]
ISLAMABAD, Feb 12: The European Union’s observers’ mission will be the only credible team of monitors in Pakistan for the February 18 elections, it is learnt. Informed sources told Dawn on Tuesday that other reputed organisations like the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the Carter Centre of the United States were keeping away because they […]
HYDERABAD (February 13 2008): The electioneering for Elections-2008 among contesting candidates in Hyderabad region has gained full momentum and amidst cold breezes, the candidates and their supporters are busy in holding corner meetings for gaining their sympathies of voters in their favour. Besides holding corner meetings, the candidates and their chief polling agents also started […]
The entry of police, Rangers and personnel from all other security agencies has been banned at polling stations all over the country on February 18. The orders were issued on Tuesday by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). Unarmed volunteers, police, Rangers and personnel from other law-enforcing agencies will, however, be stationed outside polling stations […]
MIRANSHAH: A suicide attack on a public meeting in North Waziristan on Monday left at least eight people dead and a dozen wounded, including a candidate for the National Assembly. According to sources, the bomber blew himself up at an Awami National Party (ANP) gathering in Aidak, some 15 kilometres east of Miranshah. Nisar Ali […]
LAHORE, Feb 11: The Punjab government has set itself a target of recruiting 125,000 people for a ‘special police’ force that will assist the 100,000 regular police officials to maintain law and order at 7,636 polling stations across the province during the general election on Feb 18, Dawn has learnt. The district police are recruiting […]
KARACHI, Feb 11: Although every political party contesting in the upcoming Feb 18 general elections is openly flouting the code of conduct issued by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the authorities concerned are taking no action against the violators. Rule 19 and 20 of the ECP’s code of conduct are being violated by parties […]
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