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PM redesignates Barrister Zafarullah Khan

News Desk
2017-10-27

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister has redesignated Barrister Zafarullah Khan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Legal Initiatives, as Special Assistant...

Govt planning to increase capacity of water storage of Simly Dam

News Desk
2017-10-26

ISLAMABAD: The federal government is planning to increase the capacity of water storage of Simly Dam to fulfill the requirement...

I am the real Kaptaan while Imran Khan is fake: Captain (R) Safdar

News Desk
2017-10-26

ISLAMABAD  – Captain (r) Safdar, son-in-law of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, has on Thursday said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)...

Shah Mehmood Qureshi s brother levels serious accusations against him

News Desk
2017-10-26

MULTAN  – Mureed Hussain Qureshi, brother of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi has on Thursday slapped a devotee...

Cabinet decides to place delimitation of constituencies bill before NA

News Desk
2017-10-26

PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chairs cabinet meeting in Islamabad. The federal cabinet has decided to place the Delimitation of Constituencies...

NA-4 Peshawar by elections results start to pour in

News Desk
2017-10-26

PESHAWAR  – The process of polling in NA-4 by-poll has ended as the returning officer and other staff of Election...

Polling for by-election in na-4 Peshawar begins

News Desk
2017-10-26

14 candidates are in the run. Polling for by-election in NA-4 Peshawar began a short while ago and will continue...

Pervaiz Musharaf foresee national government of Technocrats in Pakistan

News Desk
2017-10-26

DUBAI: All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Chairman General (retd) Pervez Musharraf said that there were no chances of either a...

Pakistan again lodges strong protest with India over fresh ceasefire violation by the Indian troops in Leepa sector

News Desk
2017-10-26

Foreign Office says despite calls for restraint, India continues to indulge in ceasefire violations. Pakistan has lodged a strong protest...

NA-4 Peshawar by elections results

News Desk
2017-10-26

PESHAWAR: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf candidate Arbab Amir Ayub isleading with a massive margin inNA-4 by-poll after unofficial resultsof 207 polling stations out of 269. According to the unofficial results,PTI bagged 37226 votes, PMl-Nreceived 20097 votes and ANP got19468. Counting for the by-poll wasunderway after the voting endedpeacefully at 05:00pm. The local district administration hasannounced a public holiday in theconstituency today. According to the ElectionCommission of Pakistan (ECP), 100polling booths are using the EVMsalongside the manual votingprocess. Six political and eight independentcandidates are vying for the MNAslot; they include PTI’s Arbab AmirAyub, Asad Gulzar — late incumbentGulzar Khan’s son — for PakistanPeople’s Party (PPP), AwamiNational Party’s (ANP) KhushdilKhan, Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) WisalFarooq, Tehreek-e-Labaik’s AllamaShafiq Amini, and Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz’s (PML-N) NasirKhan Moosa Zai. Apart from 1,400 army personnel,around 4,500 police officials werestationed for security in and aroundthe polling stations. The seat had fallen vacant owing tothe death of PTI’s dissident MNAGulzar Khan. The month-longelection campaign came to an endTuesday night with the 14 candidatesand their supporters using everymeans to seek votes. It is generallybelieved that the real contest wouldbe among PTI’s Arbab Amir Ayub,PML-N candidate Nasir KhanMusazai and Khushdil Khan of ANP.