Pakistan Elections 2024: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and other prominent incarcerated political figures have cast their votes through a postal ballot from Adiala Jail but his wife Bushra Bibi was unable to partake in the voting.
Pakistan election 2024 voting process is scheduled to begin at 8 am (03:00 GMT) and will continue, without a break, till 5 pm (12:00 GMT). Those already in the queue to vote at 5 pm will be allowed to vote even if that extends the process.
Pakistan Election 2024 Live Updates: Voting has ended in Pakistan after eight hours amid claims of rigging and attacks on security personnel. The polls began against the backdrop of former PM Imran Kha's imprisonment, an economic crisis, rising militant violence and other woes.
Pakistan elections: The South Asian nation of 241 million people is reeling from decades-high inflation and an economy that has come to a grinding halt as it navigates a tough International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout programme.
Pakistan- a country where civilian governments have been upended by military takeovers and where the army has ruled the nation for half of its 76 years of independence, it’s often the traditional elites that have called the shots. Here are the key players ahead of the country’s elections.
Ahead of the mandatory moratorium, all major parties have plans for using the last day to hold rallies across the country with top leaders like Nawaz Sharif, Maryam Nawaz, Shehbaz Sharif, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Asif Ali Zardari, Maulana Fazlur Reham and other addressing rallies in various cities.
US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said that it wants the broad participation of the people of Pakistan in the country's election adding concerns over the recent violence that rocked the country's Balochistan province.
A report said that high-profile prisoners could not be kept in jail factories, kitchens, hospitals, gardens, etc, among ordinary inmates. Therefore, both Imran Khan and Qureshi will be kept there in their compound for maintenance work or any other task assigned by the jail administration.
Saeed, who has been incarcerated in a jail in Lahore, has been sentenced to a total of 31 years by Pakistan's anti-terrorism courts in several cases of financing terrorism.
Violence has also escalated in the last few days in Pakistan as the South Asian nation approaches its national elections later this week.
"Our job is 98% done," Privatisation Minister Fawad Hasan Fawad said when asked about the plan to sell the airline. "The remaining 2% is just to bring it on an Excel sheet after the cabinet approves it."
The verdict marks Imran Khan's third conviction this week and his wife Bushra Bibi's second, as they were sentenced to 14 years imprisonment in the Toshakhana corruption case. Bushra Bibi's ex-husband Khawar Maneka accused Imran of marrying his wife while she was on her 'Iddat' period.
Pakistan's former PM Yusuf Raza Gilani said that ex-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice informed him about her apprehensions of bin Laden hiding in Pakistan during a visit in 2008 after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. Gilani had then dismissed the claims as "disinformation".
The plea sought legal action against 71-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party supremo Imran Khan for marrying his present wife while she was reportedly on iddat period.
Imran has been barred from holding office for 10 years as he and his wife were slapped with a fine of Rs 787 million. They are accused of retaining a jewellery set received from the Saudi crown prince against an undervalued assessment.
The rockets were fired from nearby mountains and exploded in different areas of Mach town. After firing rockets, terrorists attacked a camp of the security forces near the central jail and also entered the Mach railway station.
The wild animals have been brought to multiple PML-N public gatherings in the past. However, Nawaz Sharif was not impressed by the stunt as he ordered for the animals to be returned immediately and barred from any rallies in the future.
The accreditation cards issued to foreign journalists and international observers were only restricted to Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad. However, if any foreigner wants to visit any other city, it is being processed on a case-to-case basis, said a minister.
According to a senior police official, the explosion occurred when children, who were picking trash, were sifting through the garbage. However, it was unclear what kind of explosive device was used.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had challenged the verdict of the two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) which on Wednesday restored the cricket bat as the electoral symbol of the PTI party while validating its elections.
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