Trends - Elections 2024

Shehbaz pledges district status for Jampur

Party candidate for NA-188 Hafeezur Rehman Khan Dreshak pledges party will provide necessary public utility to the people.

Published 30 Jan, 2024 07:00am

Zartaj Gul makes sudden appearance in public in DG Khan

Condemns arrests of party workers, and demands their release, emphasising the protection of right to vote.

Updated 31 Jan, 2024 01:38pm

Sanam gets bail in last May 9 case

Sent on judicial remand in another case.

Published 30 Jan, 2024 07:00am

Nawaz takes on ex-judges at Old Anarkali rally in Lahore

“I was punished and ousted from power in 2017 despite being innocent. A judge who was to become chief justice of Pakistan resigned before time. It seems there was something fishy,” says Nawaz.

Updated 30 Jan, 2024 12:11pm

PTI candidates, workers face cases, arrests after Sunday rallies in Punjab

Workers face criminal cases for breaching multiple sections of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Updated 30 Jan, 2024 12:15pm

Other parties’ workers supporting PPP being arrested, alleges Taj

Demands ‘innocent’ activists to be released at once and legal action should be taken against policemen responsible for "illegal" arrest.

Published 30 Jan, 2024 07:00am

Manifestos ‘lack economic foresight’: PM Kakar

Premier says pledges about jobs, housing contingent upon good economy.

Updated 30 Jan, 2024 11:43am

PTI leaders, workers booked under terror charges for alleged vandalism during party rally in Karachi

DIG-South says 66 PTI leaders including Khurram Sher Zaman, Faheem Khan and others instigated 5,000 people during gathering at Teen Talwar yesterday.

Published 29 Jan, 2024 07:35pm

PM Kakar bars ministers, officials from making foreign visits till Feb 8 polls

"No leave for any foreign visit shall be granted till the completion of the election process," says Cabinet Division.

Published 29 Jan, 2024 06:46pm

MQM-P worker killed in clash with PPP during election campaign in Karachi’s Nazimabad: police

Mustafa Kamal holds PPP's Asim Hussain responsible, warns will take matters in own hands if state fails to protect MQM-P workers; Saeed Ghani refutes claims.

Updated 29 Jan, 2024 05:24pm

Inflation, debt and IMF — What economic challenges lie ahead for the new government

Whoever comes to power in the days after February 8 will find that their campaign trail promises will hit the hard wall of reality almost immediately.

Published 29 Jan, 2024 11:56am

An election of Gen Z and millennials

The best way to sway the largest population segment is not through door-to-door campaigns or splashy advertisements, it is through the cost-effective method of social media.

Updated 29 Jan, 2024 12:11pm

Campaigns of cash and collusion

Numerous candidates have admitted that the actual election expenditures of serious contenders far surpass the official limits.

Updated 29 Jan, 2024 12:11pm

The clarity needed for the incoming regime

Decision makers need to understand the ground realities and the challenges for the masses to make decisions for development spending.

Updated 29 Jan, 2024 12:11pm

Empty promises and soaring prices

No party is focusing on the economy’s core issues in the short run or how to overcome the challenges of huge external debt payments in the long run.

Updated 29 Jan, 2024 12:11pm

Governance reforms needed to save country: Saad Rafiq

Referring to Bilawal, PML-N leader says the young man has forgotten friendship of the recent past.

Updated 29 Jan, 2024 09:07am

More of the same?

Several factors inject unpredictability into the electoral outcome.

Updated 29 Jan, 2024 09:53am

Manchurian candidates

Most democracies are now suffering from a "democratic regression".

Updated 29 Jan, 2024 02:17pm

Political decline

With audience attention spans shrinking rapidly, party leaders no longer seem to be bothering with cumbersome political philosophies.

Updated 29 Jan, 2024 09:08am

Ahmed Shabbar — vying for ‘a green revolution in grey Karachi’

Shabbar, the founder of Pakistan Maholiati Tahaffuz Movement, has built a seven-point election agenda based on an enviro-human-centric ideology.

Updated 31 Jan, 2024 02:23pm

‘Last-minute’ registration drive deprives many inmates of right to vote

Prison officials launched awareness drive days before expiry of deadline for postal ballots; lawyer says processes too complicated for average prisoner.

Updated 29 Jan, 2024 09:07am